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Are You Doing All You Can to Stay Fit and Healthy?

by Michele Cheplic

What happens to your fitness routine when you get sick? Do you take a few days off to recuperate, or do you push yourself and fight through the pain? Doctors recommend the former to give your body a chance to rest and heal.

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Exercising on the Road: No Excuses

by Michele Cheplic

Hopefully, you have been inspired by the change of seasons (and perhaps my blogs) and are now a few weeks into your new fitness routine. Now that you are advancing nicely you want to make sure you stay on track.

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Exercise and the "Fat Gene"

by Michele Cheplic

Researchers just wrapped up a study that looked into the claim that a common genetic variation exists that makes people more likely to gain weight.

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Writers Need Physical Exercises, Too

by Heather Long

The life of a writer is great, we get up in the morning, we sit down at the computer and we start typing.

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Stress and Weight Gain

by Heather Long

Stress and weight gain are often linked due to the effects of stress on the physiology of a person. Stress is an active part of our lives and hardwired into our biological make up allowing us to fight or flee from threatening and dangerous situations.

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Nature versus Nurture: Even in Fitness?

by Heather Long

Feel free to breathe a sigh of relief, your success or failure in exercise and how your body responds to it may rest squarely on the shoulders of your parents. The argument of nature versus nurture is hardly a new one. Psychologists have been arguing about it for years.

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Do You Prevent Your Own Success?

by Heather Long

A friend of mine gave me a great book recently. In April, I was going to England for a week and I'm always desperate for good reading material on the plane. We've got an odd collection of books around here, but I love books that have buried wisdom in them.

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Tips for Fit Living

by Heather Long

It's always great to kick off a new month with a new start. We get 12 fresh starts a year, if you look at it that way and in my way of thinking - a fresh start is the best way to kick off the first day of a month.

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