If you're dedicated, and you don't mind working out alone, you can get by without expensive gym memberships or expensive equipment. Bodyweight exercises that use the weight of your own body for resistance, can provide you with a  strong workout.

---> Top 10 Bodyweight Exercises for Fitness and Strength

With a new discussion paper in the journal Nature, the issue of fructose and how it affects our health, especially the incidence of obesity,  diabetes and metabolic syndrome, has become hot internet health news.

Not that it's all that new: the so-called hazards of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) have been spread around for a decade or so by now. But is fructose in a regular diet the "poison" that a few vociferous academics claim it to be? And is it the cause of our obesity and health crisis? No, it's not; and the proponents of such a case display a naivety in understanding basic toxicology as it applies to the complexities of food and  nutrition.

---> Fructose, Sugar and Your Health

Weight training is good for fitness, flexibility, strength and muscle building -- and it expends energy, which is what you want if you are trying to lose body fat and lean down.

But to lose weight you need to work hard on your energy expenditure of all kinds . . . and your diet and food intake. Here's what you need to know about obesity and weight training.

---> Weight Training to Tackle Obesity

Circuit training, cross-training, metabolic training: these are all terms for mixing up your training programs and protocols to provide a broad infusion of musculoskeletal and cardiorespiratory training that you may not get if you just stick to a single fitness training program like gym weight training or running.

This sort of cross training prevents you getting stale, and it works physiologically because it involves many more body systems and processes - like stabilizer and synergist muscles -- than would be involved with just one protocol.  Try it for variety and fitness performance enhancement.

---> High Intensity Intervals and Weights