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How to Have a Healthy Retirement

Planning for a comfortable retirement does not have to be stressful. Retirement shouldn’t be challenging, either, so why make getting there even more difficult? A retirement planning service can offer healthy retirement tips to ensure that retirees experience a fiscally and physically sound retirement. They will consider all elements of a retiree’s life, and provide peace of mind with the knowledge that they have not forgotten a single part of the senior’s life plan. In order to choose the most effective retirement planning service to meet the client’s needs, ensure that the retirement plan covers all areas of life, including:

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Health Benefits of Weight Training

You can follow a healthy diet and exercise until you are blue in the face (please don’t do that though – it’s just an expression), and your body will never achieve that sinewy, conditioned look you see in the pages of fitness magazines.  Before you assume those chiseled-looking bods of the men and women who grace the magazines’ pages is the result of Photo Shopped images, you should be aware that the look that you admire, and perhaps covet, comes from weight training.

“Oh… weight training” you say glumly.  But… wait a minute – before you stop reading and go no further, because, although you know you’re interested in looking good and getting a primo workout to your muscles and lungs, you may shudder to think that you will end up looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger.  Well this article will dispel that myth right now.

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Health Benefits of Nuts

Not so long ago, the medical honchos told us that eating nuts was not good for our health.  We believed them because they are, after all, the medical gurus, and we are just mortal men and women.  Besides, if you think about it, what possible redeeming value could a peanut butter and jelly sandwich be, or, if you are really decadent and like swirling your tablespoon around in the Jif bottle and delivering yourself a big mouthful of that creamy or crunchy goodness?  They shamed us into believing peanut butter was a no-no.