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ALERTS – Cool way to keep updated about your favorite/working subjects with Pubmed

For those of you either getting started on research, writing about something with intellectual honesty or just find science too cool to miss on anything relevant, here’s how your configure Pubmed for your own, personal “newsletter” (notifications). I received the weekly notification ones today: 1) Create an account on Pubmed (fig 1) 2) Log in …

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The Role of Grit in Sport Performance

Introduction: Picking Up Where We Left Off A while ago, I wrote a series of articles about “motivation”. My goal was to offer an evidence-based introduction to the concepts involved in motivation. The terms that expressed these concepts have been misinterpreted, misused, and presented with a judgmental, moralistic, and emotional tone in the fitness industry …

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May – Mental Health Awareness Month – part 1

This is a brief explanation about what this awareness initiative is about and, following that, my own evidence-based evolutionary and social perspective on it. The Mental Health Awareness Month was established and has been observed since 1949. An initiative of the National Association for Mental Health, the objective is to concentrate efforts to educated the …

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The construction of false conceptions in the fitness industry

I collect fitness newsletters. I do delete about 90% of them, but some, which either seem different or very representative, I move to a file I named “MARKETING STUDY PRIMARY SOURCES”. I think at some point I wanted to study them, but they are not methodologically sampled, I can’t correlate their strategies to actual corporate …

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Why keeping a food log alone helps you control your weight

Marilia Coutinho & Antonio Bruno We hate this title. We didn’t write it to trick you, though: we know you are concerned with your shape and the measurement tools available to you are the scale and the measuring tape. We also know that what bothers you is actually what you see in the mirror or …

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Of horses and men – Let’s talk about PEDs, drugs in general and education

I’m a health educator out of Oklahoma. And I have a lot of first hand experience under my belt. I think this is what made me choose this career path and also what makes me good at it. I want to tell a story about horses and men. In 2006, I went to a small …

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