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What's Up Down There?
What’s up down there? Turns out a lot of women may be afraid to ask this question. Many are too embarrassed to admit that they can’t exercise vigorously without the risk of peeing their pants. That’s what I discovered when I tried to add jump rope intervals to my boot camp class. My group of moms…
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Before You Have a Stroke
We’ve all heard the phrase “serious as a heart attack.” Well, a stroke is no joke either. Sometimes called a “brain attack,” a stroke occurs when blood flow to the brain is cut off, typically due to a blood clot blocking an artery. Once the arterial passage way is completely closed, a clock starts ticking.…
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The Obama Health Challenge
As the most visible and influential people in America right now, Michelle and Barack Obama have the unique opportunity to set the tone for our nation and remake our country’s landscape. That includes not just the nation’s wealth, but also Americans’ health. Of course, the Obamas are a successful, professional couple with young children. But they also face…
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Give the Gift of Fitness
Skip the ugly sweater, nix that stinky perfume and—unless you want to bestow the gift of a big fat behind—definitely say no to the gi-normous bucket of caramel corn. If you’re looking for a unique gift this year, something that really shows how much you care about someone, think about giving the gift of fitness.…
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In The Fitness Spirit
We all know about Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but what about Fat Tuesday? Nope, not the one heralding Mardi Gras. No, no. This is the Fat Tuesday that follows your holiday meal binge—you know, the one after all the turkey and pie and festive drinks, when you realize your pants are tight, the scale is…
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Fitness Fit for a First Lady
Mom in chief, that’s the title Michelle Obama has given herself as America’s next first lady. And who’s gonna argue with no-nonsense Michelle as she steps up to take her place in history? All over the world, women and girls of color will be looking to her, not as some out of reach ideal, but…
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MSG — Still Bad For You
For years, adding MSG to food was about as common, and acceptable, as adding a dash of salt. But as people became more health conscious and gained better access to nutritional information, they began to make the connection between their skull-splitting migraine and the previous night’s Chinese takeout. The discovery of MSG’s unpleasant side effects…
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Food Coloring
Black food is in. And we’re not talking about your grandmother’s fried chicken or Aunt Sadie’s peach cobbler. Instead, it seems that with food, the darker it is, the better it is for you. From forbidden black rice to black tea, black is back…not that it ever really went away. For many cultures, dark-hued foods…
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Back to School Fitness for Grown-ups
YEEEEHAW! It’s back to school time. All across the country parents are doing the happy dance as their precious offspring are finally getting out from under them and returning to that godsend of an institution that houses them for seven or so blissful hours a day. Back to school means getting things in order, tightening…
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Twenty-Five Minutes of Hell
Too tired, too old, too fat, too busy. If these are the excuses you use to bail on your workout then eventually you’ll be too sick and too dead for it to even matter. The most common reason people give for not exercising is the time factor and, yes, I understand that you are over-scheduled…
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