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Kiwi For Everyone!
Let’s talk Kiwi! Did you know a study by the University of Oslo in Norway reveals that eating two to three kiwifruit a day has similar benefits to the daily dosage of aspirin recommended by physicians to improve heart health, without the side effects? I was at lunch with a few friends this weekend and…
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World Fitness Day 2010
The brainchild of Jane Fonda, World Fitness Day marks an annual initiative to highlight the importance of staying active and getting fit throughout life. In a recent interview, Fonda said of World Fitness Day: “Not only will it be a tremendous amount of fun and a spectacular celebration of good health, it is an amazing…
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Family Adventure Ideas at REI
I received an REI catalog in the mail this week. I am not really an adventure sports enthusiast as you can tell by the type of workouts I do, but that is not to say that I haven’t recently been interested in looking at different types of athletic endeavors to consider. Some of them may…
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Can Food Make Kids Smarter? A Free Event for those in Loudoun
A Free Event for those in Loudoun County or for those that want to drive there! (thanks to my friend Patty for sending me this info) Food for Thought: Can Food Make Kids Smarter? Tuesday, May 4, 6:30-8:00 Curiosity Zone By popular demand, Beverly Seng will return to the C-Zone to talk about nutrition and…
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Weighing the Evidence on Exercise
Weighing the Evidence on Exercise – NYTimes.com. How exercise affects body weight is one of the more intriguing and vexing issues in physiology. Exercise burns calories, no one doubts that, and so it should, in theory, produce weight loss, a fact that has prompted countless people to undertake exercise programs to shed pounds. Without significantly…
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No Sweet Surprise in my book
Has anyone see a commercial or visited this site: sweetsurprise.com? It’s all about high fructose corn syrup and how it has not been proven to be any more linked to obesity rates than sugar and both are similarly metabolized by the body. Ok, first off – i love how the Corn Refiners Association is behind…
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Ten Things You Didn’t Know Are In the Health Care Bill
I’m sure it’s not so simple, so please read with your own comfort level of skepticism… Menu labeling. Restaurants with over 20 employees must include calorie counts and other nutrition information on the menu. SWAG reporting. Doctors must report valuable goodies they receive from health vendors. Right to Pump. New moms must be given space…
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Get Moving…
I saw this interesting piece of news targeted at women: Exercise Can Help Prevent Weight Gain, But It Won’t Be Easy There’s a lot of attention paid to what works when it comes to losing weight. But that’s not really the hard part; anyone can diet or exercise in the short term, but maintaining a…
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Losing your Job can have health repurcussions.
A growing body of research suggests that layoffs can have profound health consequences. One 2006 study by a group of epidemiologists at Yale found that layoffs more than doubled the risk of heart attack and stroke among older workers. Another paper, published last year by Kate W. Strully, a sociology professor at the State University…