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Young Adult Turns Short Bowel Into Motivator for Full Life

Stanford Childrens

asked Rachel Herdes, DO , a pediatric gastroenterologist with the Intestinal Rehabilitation and Nutrition Support program at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health. Arizona has been a patient of the Intestinal Rehabilitation and Nutrition Support program at Stanford Children’s ever since. Is that an x-ray on your T-shirt?”

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Fuel Your Intensity: Nutrition tips for High Intensity Interval Training

The Sporting

Simple Nutrition Tips for High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) When it comes to losing weight and gaining muscle, there are myriad different workouts in the market. Although many people know about the importance of exercise, the critical point they often ignore is nutrition. Thus, the best nutrition for HIIT is: 1.

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Teen Taking on Life After Intestine-Liver-Pancreas Transplant

Stanford Childrens

For 12 hours each day, she was hooked up to parenteral nutrition , or TPN, which delivers liquid nutrients through a central line or semipermanent IV. Not being able to enjoy food and having to live on TPN were what motivated the 18-year-old and her parents to go forward with an extremely rare operation—a second intestinal transplant.

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Digital PE Lesson Plan Templates

PLT4M

With PLT4M, educators can inspire their students with programs that are as meaningful as they are motivating. Teachers can rely on PLT4M for engaging, standards-based PE lesson plan templates designed to enhance their curriculum while meeting the critical benchmarks that shape the field of physical education.

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The Greatest Bodybuilders of All-Time

The Sporting

His older brother, Benny, introduced him to the sport and helped him learn the basics of weight training and nutrition as he himself had competed in some local contests. He managed to achieve these through a combination of heavy lifting, high-volume training and a focus on nutrition and recovery.

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What is Physical Literacy?

PLT4M

” And beyond just ability, people have started to look at the importance of motivation and attitudes toward physical fitness and activity. A quality physical education program goes beyond skill building and teaches students about healthy lifestyles through fitness, nutrition, health, and more. ” (Whitehead M.

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How to Encourage Your Children to Have Healthy Eating Habits

Stanford Childrens

With so many mixed messages surrounding nutrition, it’s a task that can feel overwhelming. Due in part to the influence of marketing and diet culture (in a nutshell, the focus of everyone being on a diet and wanting to lose weight), there is a lot of false information about nutrition that we can unknowingly pass on to our kids.