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People tend to eat sugary, junky food when they are stressed out. These foods actually reduce levels of hormone cortisol in your bloodstream, thus relieving stress at least temporarily and hardwiring you to seek out these kinds of food.

You don’t have to go on a crash diet to improve your health. Cutting calories out of your daily diet may be enough to improve biomarkers for metabolic syndrome.

There are multiple uses for a scale that is Legal for Trade.

Your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) is the minimum level of energy your body needs when at rest to function effectively including your respiratory and circulatory organs, neural system, liver, kidneys, and other organs (you even burn calories when sleeping).

The human body has three types of muscle: skeletal muscle, smooth muscle (in the walls of the organs) and cardiac (heart) muscle. The majority of the body’s muscle is skeletal: there are over 600 skeletal muscles in the body making up about 40% of total body mass. So when it comes to building muscle mass, you need to focus hard on building, or at least maintaining, your existing level of skeletal muscle.

Water is found in every cell of your body and plays an important role in all its vital processes.

Tanita has products that have the ability to communicate to iOS and Android smartphones. Tracking your health and fitness as well as your daily activities has never been more convenient. Using the free Tanita HealthyEdge Mobile app, data from our RD-901plus Body Composition Monitor and our AM-161 Activity Gauge are seamlessly recorded and graphed. This is a powerful tool for seeing the effects your physical activity has on your body, as the data is now linked together on the same app.