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All you have to do is watch the news to know how important it is to stay in shape. In the short term, ramping up your fitness can give you more energy, improve the quality of your sleep, boost lung capacity, and relieve stress...

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Boost the Burn: Raising Metabolism for Healthy Weight Loss

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Do what you can for fitness

It’s time to turn up the heat on your workouts, but that doesn’t mean you have to train for a marathon or slave at the gym for two hours a day. In fact...

Get fit now

All you have to do is watch the news to know how important it is to stay in shape. In the short term, ramping up your fitness can give you more energy, improve the quality of your sleep, boost lung capacity, and relieve stress...

Even low-intensity exercise beats fatigue

According to new research you don’t have to pound out 10-mile runs five days a week to feel energized. In fact, findings from a resent study conducted at the University of Georgia suggest that low-intensity exercise, such as walking, can reduce fatigue as well as—if not better than—moderate-intensity physical activities....

"I want to lose 15 pounds."

Looking at photo of Christia Marcus Lyon from the 1980s you woul never guess th writer would b struggling t maintain healthy weigh 20 years later ...

Weigh Your Options

Weigh Your Options Pumping iron builds your bones, boosts your mood, and improves your overall fitness By Shanti Sosienski If you're like most women,...

Burn It Up

Burn It Up Learn how to rev up your metabolism and keep off extra weight By Catherine Monahan Cold-weather months signal nature's most austere time of...

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Soy protein may help you stay trim-and stave off heart disease

In a recent study conducted at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and at the University of Vermont, postmenopausal women who drank a shake containing soy protein and isoflavone versus a shake with equal amounts of casein, a milk protein without isoflavones, wound up with less abdominal fat. ...

Calcium: a weighty debate

If you've seen advertisements pushing dairy as the new weight loss superstar, you might assume that loading up on calcium-rich cheese, milk, and yogurt...

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Green tea (Camellia sinensis) What it is: Researchers are finding that the antioxidant compounds (polyphenols) that make green tea a potent protector...

"I want to lose 15 pounds."

Looking at photo of Christia Marcus Lyon from the 1980s you woul never guess th writer would b struggling t maintain healthy weigh 20 years later ...

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