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Do You Live in a Fit and Healthy City?

by Stephanie Romero

06 Jun 2011 07:16 AM

The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) ranks the 50 fittest and healthiest metropolitan cities in the United States every year.

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Extreme Way to Lose Weight: Tongue Patch Diet

by Stephanie Romero

03 Jun 2011 06:39 AM

I recently learned of an extreme way to lose weight, the tongue patch diet. It is a surgical procedure where a doctor uses prolene mesh; a material used to repair hernias and sutures it to the tongue. This makes eating solid foods very painful, limiting a person's diet to liquids.

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Forcing Americans to be Healthy

by Stephanie Romero

29 Nov 2010 07:07 AM

One of the things I enjoy about being an adult is the ability to make my own decisions. I also enjoy as a parent being able to make decisions about my own children.

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Total Fitness Routine: Part II

by Angel Lynn Diamond

As I mentioned earlier in the week stretching and balancing exercises are two of the first aspects of fitness to incorporate in to your body shaping and physical fitness routine. Stretching warms your muscles, helps your joints to move more freely, helps to reduce stress and improves your posture.

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Total Fitness Routine: Part I

by Angel Lynn Diamond

An all around good and balanced fitness routine contains several aspects for your optimal health outlook. These aspects will cover all areas of your physical strength and health and leave nothing out or "off" balance.

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Creating a Challenging Workout Routine

by Michele Cheplic

Now that I am training for another marathon I am back to running 30-36 miles per week. However, I could (and should) be running more miles per day in less time. That's my challenge for the fall and winter (the marathon is next spring).

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Focus on the Olympics: New Series

by Heather Long

With the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing just around the corner, we're going to be spending some time over the next few days talking about the Olympic hopefuls.

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How Is Your Fitness Going?

by Heather Long

How do you measure how your fitness is going? Do you measure it in how you feel personally? Do you measure it in inches lost? What about pounds? Do you measure it in performance? These are all valid ways to measure your fitness, but you shouldn't just use one of these to measure how you are doing.

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Wow -- Is it 2008 already?

by Heather Long

January 1, 2008. January 1, 2008. January 1, 2008. Can it really be 2008 already? Seriously? Yep. Here we are. It is 2008, in Hollywood, the writer's strike continues at full swing and my daily viewing for my workouts is severely hampered.

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Post-Op Exercise

by Heather Long

I've had a lot of opportunities to practice post-operation exercises this year and no matter how hard they knock me down, I am not giving up until my workout programs return to where they were previous to my surgeries in February and August.

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