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As an employer, you want to encourage a healthy lifestyle among your employees. Nutrition, exercise, balance and protection all play an important role in this. Vitaminstore supports anyone striving for a healthy lifestyle with expert advice. If you’d like to offer this to your employees, the Vitaminstore Healthy Lifestyle Programme is now available for employers. It includes an intake and guidance on making the right choices, including the nutritional supplements that go with them.
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Whether you're participating in a Hyrox for the first time or aiming to beat your personal best: targeted nutrition and supplements can elevate your performance. In this blog, we'll tell you exactly what your body needs before, during, and after a Hyrox race. So that you appear at the start full of energy, strength, and focus – and finish just as strong!
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Billions of micro-organisms live in the gut, together forming the gut microbiome. You may have heard of prebiotics and probiotics, but what exactly is the difference? In this article, we explain what these terms mean and which foods contain them.
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In the Netherlands, many people are sent to swimming lessons at a young age. It is entirely customary to obtain an A and B diploma before the age of ten. As a result, the majority of Dutch people can manage well in the water. A significant number of adults even enjoy swimming. This is not surprising, as swimming offers numerous benefits.
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Have you always been on the lookout for a diet that is both simple to follow and maintain, while also being healthy and delivering spectacular results? Perhaps 'Intermittent Fasting' is just what you need. Category and Product Manager Pepijn Aardewijn wanted to lose weight and delved into the fascinating world of fasting. He has since lost 20 kilograms! Below is his story, findings, and observations about this new diet craze that has flown over from America.
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The human body is composed of various muscle groups. Each person is different, and interestingly, one person can have more muscles than another. On average, a human has 640 muscles. Many of these muscles cannot be consciously controlled. They are known as smooth muscles. These muscles respond to stimuli from the nervous system. Striated muscles are the ones you can consciously control, the muscles of your skeleton. These muscles can be trained through exercise and strength exertion. Broadly speaking, they can be divided into six muscle groups.
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