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Boost the Burn: Raising Metabolism for Healthy Weight Loss

Most of us will fight the battle of the bulge at several points during our lifetime, and many of us will lose. We know diets don’t work...

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How can I prevent and treat bruising?

If you bruise easily, you might have an illness that has depleted the body over time, or your digestive organs may not be working together...

At-home workouts

Too busy to make it to the gym? Try an exercise DVD, and get in shape in your own living room. ...

Balance your exercise regimen

With help from some of the top fitness experts in the country, we put together a simple plan that will fit easily into your lifestyle, whether you've been exercising for five weeks or five years...

Top five stretches to stay flexible

Even if your idea of fitness is walking the dog, you need these five stretches...

What 30-minute workout offers the best results?

Every workout should start with a low-level aerobic activity that involves the muscle groups to be targeted during that session...

Waist over weight

If you’re only looking at the numbers on your scale or calculating your body mass index (BMI), you might not be as healthy as you think...

Stay centered

As someone who counts herself among the estimated 75 percent of Americans who will experience back pain at some point during their lifetime, I know it’s important to strengthen my core...

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....

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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...

Lose it: Herbs to help you lose weight

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"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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