Weighing In: Chia vs. Flax Seeds
If you’re into eating healthy these days, chances are you’ve heard of chia and flax seeds. People are raving about them and you know they’re supposed to be good for you, but what the heck are these seeds?
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Weighing In: If It Fits Your Macros
A diet where eating Pop-tarts, donuts, and McDonald’s is encouraged? It sounds too good to be true, but the IIFYM (If It Fits Your Macro’s) diet claims you really can eat whatever you want.
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A Dash of Healthy: Better Eggplant Parm
Yes, by “better” we mean better for you. But before you get mad and X out the page for trying to ruin a classic, hear us out. Eggplant deserves your love.
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Weighing In: Getting Spring Break Ready
Spring break is right around the corner and although all of our brains are more than ready for a break, our bodies might not be. We’ve all been there: realizing it’s almost time to leave for your vacation and you’re not exactly bikini bod ready. Don’t panic yet; Valley’s got some tips to help you hit the beach with confidence this spring break.
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Weighing In: CHAARG’s Official Debut at PSU
CHAARG is an organization aimed at encouraging girls to get active, have fun, and gain a support system in and out of the gym. The program challenges girls to hop off the elliptical and try new workouts weekly.
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Task Force on Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment
Sexual Assault. Sexual Harassment. Neither of these terms are necessarily comfortable topics to talk about. However, this past summer Penn State’s President Eric Barron started…
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The Evolution of Peanut Butter
Peanut butter. That glorious smell of a fresh jar. Crunchy, smooth, organic and natural. So many varieties and everyone has their favorite. There’s always that peanut butter we grew up with on our PB&J’s. However, most peanut butter lovers don’t experiment beyond that. The Jif and Skippy’s world we love has expanded and turned into quite an evolution.
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LionHeart CrossFit Fitness
The terms you overhear at the gym that don’t quite make sense—clean, deadlift, snatch. It’s definitely a whole new fitness world that can be very ambiguous to the regular gym goer. We sat down with Lionheart Crossfit manager and instructor, Jeff Welsh to get the full scoop on Crossfit.
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To Supplement or Not? The Truth About Women and Protein
If you’re someone who hits the gym, you understand the benefits of even a quick in-between-classes workout. But how do you recover and make the most of your time spent sweating it out? Valley dug up the truth about protein and debunked the myths behind supplements being for body-builders only.
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Weighing In: Easy Overnight Oats
It’s no secret that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. So why do many of us continue to skip it? Eating breakfast boosts our metabolism, helps us stay more focused in class, and can even make us happier.
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5 Foods You Didn’t Even Know Were Healthy
If you’re sick of eating salad every night for dinner while trying to stay healthy, have no fear — there are other options you probably already have sitting in your kitchen right now.
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Weighing In: Beat The Resolutioners
Year after year, getting fit is one of the most popular New Year’s resolutions. But come February, the gyms are empty again. While lack of commitment is the biggest reason people stop working out, there are many people who stop just because they never started correctly.
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Start Living Now: Amber Krzys’s Bodyheart Campaign
Amber Krzys says start living now.
Krzys is the founder of Bodyheart, a campaign created to empower people to celebrate their real beauty and fight back against media and social norms leading to poor body image.
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Tea Tree Oil: Skin Imperfections Be Gone!
Have you ever looked around your bathroom and realized you are spending a lot of money on acne products that seem to do nothing but dry out your skin and leave it looking lifeless?
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Weighing In: Making Christmas Cookies Healthy
December means Christmas, and Christmas means cookies. While we could never say a bad word about cookies, it’s easier than you may think to mindlessly eat an entire day’s work of calories just in Christmas cookies. This doesn’t mean you need to give up sprinkled snowman cutouts altogether, though. There are simple substitutions you can make while baking to eliminate some of the fat and calories in your cookies.
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Weighing In: Welcome to the CryoZone
Standing in a small, nitrogen-filled chamber wearing only my bra, underwear and a pair of shoes I’m almost certain I saw my grandma wear to the beach last summer (with probably the same pair of wool socks I have on right now, no less), I feel more like a science experiment than a girl trying out the latest fitness fad.
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Weighing In: Cold-Weather Jogging Solutions
So it’s not exactly a winter wonderland here in Happy Valley quite yet, but the temps have definitely started to dip into “It’s cold out so, oops, looks like I can’t go running today!” territory.
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Weighing In: The Unofficial “Halloweentown” Workout
‘Tis the season for Halloween movies, and what’s better than reliving your childhood with Disney Halloween specials like Halloweentown? Instead of gorging yourself on candy corn, try this Halloweentown workout to keep in shape this October!
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Apple is the New Pumpkin
Okay, pumpkin lovers – we hate to disappoint you, but don’t you think the whole “pumpkin-flavored whatever” thing is getting a little old? Hear us out – now that everyone is consumed with all things pumpkin, this pumpkin-obsession is slowly turning into a universal sign for “basic.”
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The Unhealthy Mindset of Becoming “Healthy”
It’s 2 a.m. and you find yourself staring at the fridge. You already ate dinner earlier that evening but you find yourself at the same place around the same time, three times a week. Next thing you know, you are stuffing food down your throat just because. You eat until you feel “satisfied” because you didn’t eat the slice of pizza that all your friends ate during lunch that day. You didn’t eat it because you thought it was “unhealthy” for you.
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