Use Your Brain: Cancer Prevention And Your Mind

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Cancer is one of the scariest words in our dictionary. It can strike with no warning and it affects people of every gender, race, age, height and weight. Marathon runners and couch potatoes get cancer. Vegans and junk food lovers get cancer. It may seem impossible to stop. You can turn the odds in your [...]

Katrina Law’s Fiercely-Fit Workout

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American actress Katrina Law appeared on Spartacus: Blood and Sand for less than half of the season but she made an impression on fans, and her character Mira made an even bigger impression on Spartacus. Law, best known for an arc on the TV series Legend of the Seeker and the web series The Resistance, is back with Spartacus: Vengeance, which [...]

How to Make Your Outdoor Cat a Happy Indoor Cat

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Daisy, my beloved cat – she’s crazy!  At six pounds 4 ounces, 11 years, beautiful thick, dark brown, long hair and stunning green eyes she has put more lines in my face and worry in my heart than any pet I’ve raised. And Iv’e had dozens of furry pets. I’ve always been sucker for cuddly [...]

Beach Boot Camp Anyone? Interval Training Workout That Goes Everywhere You Do

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Heading south for a winter get-a-way? If you are one of the fortunate few traveling to a warmer climate this season you may have some concerns about leaving your normal workout routine behind. No worries! This high energy interval training workout will blast fat and burn calories wherever you go.  Especially to the beach!  And [...]

Looking Ahead With Lauren: Don’t Give Up On Your Resolutions!

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As January rolls on, I am proud to be sticking with some of my resolutions so far. I have been doing yoga at least once a week and started at a new studio last week (love those Groupons!), am halfway through my cake decorating class, been working out more than usual and working on my [...]

Thirteen Ways To Prevent Cancer

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The purpose of this article is to outline 13 ways that you can decrease your risk of developing any type of cancer. The following 13 ways to prevent cancer are presented in no particular order: 1. If you are going to be sexually active, be in a mutually monogamous relationship with a partner who is [...]

Looking Ahead With Lauren: Cancer Prevention Starts Today

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Okay, I will admit it. I’ve always been a bit of a scaredy-cat. I still close my eyes during scary movie previews and get paranoid driving home late. There are so many scary things out there in the world, but I do try to focus on the positive and happy parts of life. Even if [...]

Time To Detoxify

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Researchers have found that adults over the age of 40 who have higher levels of bisphenol A (BPA) in their urine tend to be obese, have more abdominal fat, and are insulin resistant. Studies have shown these metabolic disorders can lead to serious health problems such as high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.(1) [...]

Head To Toe Circuit Workout

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The Year in Fitness 2011

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Faster, Higher, Stronger!  Fitness for 2012 If all the Phys Ed columns published this year have a single message, it is that now is a fine time to own a body. The diverse exercise-related experiments published in 2011 and covered in this space each week suggest that it’s possible to retain your cognitive powers, muscle [...]