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Eat Fresh Fruits and Vegetables 
15.03.2006.
Fitness expert links infertility to high heels 08.02.2006.
Personal fitness lessons from the Olympics 08.02.2006.
Can being sexy be bad for your career?
You've got a great body! Should you show it off in the work place? Are your tops too low?
Are your skirts too short, too tight?
Dressing sexy can back fire on you at the work place especially the higher you climb on the corporate ladder, according to a University of Lawrence study carried out by professor Peter Glick.
The study found that risqué dress on the job is almost always viewed as inappropriate for those in all positions. Managers who dressed provocat...
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14.05.
How Safe Is Aspartame Anyway?
Aspartame is used as a sweetener in diet pop, chewing gum, dairy products and some medicines. (Courtesy of European Food Safety Authority)
The sugar substitute aspartame does not seem to raise the risk of cancer, a review by European food safety experts concluded Friday.
Last year, Italian researchers said aspartame, a sweetener commonly used in diet pop, was linked to higher rates of lymphoma and leukemia in rats.
The Italian findings led an independent group of scie...
Read more 06.05.
Stay Safe in the Sun and Avoid Skin Cancer
Skin cancer is on the rise for young women in their 20s and 30s. Find out why -- and what you can do to protect yourself now.
By Mary Rose Almasi
Read more 16.04.
Why buying an iPod or MP3 player can improve your life
Sure IPods are great for listening to music but you can do so much more with them.
Music can be a healthy stress reliever as long as you don't listen to it too loud.An ipod with upbeat music can enhance your morning workout or evening walk.You can count time or the duration of your workout by the number of songs you listen to. The average song length being around 3 to 4 minutes in length.
If you can exercise for the duration of 3 or 4 songs 3 to 5 times a we...
Read more 08.04.
Eat Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
Most fruits and vegetables begin to lose vitamins soon after they are harvested.
The reason is that the fruit or vegetable is cut off from the nutrient source of the tree or plant that grew it.
Nearly half the vitamins may be lost within a few days unless the fresh produce is cooled or preserved.
Within 1 to 2 weeks, even refrigerated fruits and vegetable may lose half of their vitamins.
When you cook foods or prepa...
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Posts from our readers(0) 15.03.
Fitness expert links infertility to high heels
Five-inch stilettos
the current fashion rage along with 1940s pencil skirts, can harm a woman's fertility, a British fitness expert says."If people value their health in any way at all, avoid these killer heels at all costs," Dax Moy told The London Mirror. "They're not worth the risk."
High heels cause the pelvis to tip forward, said the man who bills himself as Britain's premier personal trainer.
"It doesn't stop there ... neck, bac...
Read more 08.02.
Personal fitness lessons from the Olympics
Take-home messages for the couch-potato viewers at home
By Jacqueline Stenson
Contributing editor
MSNBC
If you're like many Americans, you'll probably spend a lot of time on the couch this month watching other people sweat it out on television.
It started on Sunday with the Super Bowl, one of the biggest couch-potato days of the year (no, raising a beer bottle and punching the sofa pillows do not count as exercise), and will conti...
Read more Posts from our readers(0) 08.02.
Fitness Guru Explores Healing Your Body Through Exercise
They call it exercise that heals. A local fitness guru says a return back-to-the basics just might mean an end to that aching back. NY1 Health & Fitness reporter Kafi Drexel filed the following report.
For many of us, the words "therapeutic" and "Pilates" might seem to be at bit of an oxymoron. But that's exactly what fitness guru, Alycea Ungaro says she's come up with out of her Real Pilates studio in TriBeca.
"Real Pilates, the style that we do, it's very vig...
Read more 05.02.
How safe is cheerleading?
The daredevil activity of cheerleading – entrenched in tradition as a team-spirit booster on university campuses – is taking a physical toll on young participants, according to North American experts.
A study in the journal Pediatrics found that for every 1,000 kids involved in cheerleading each year, eight will require hospital treatment for injuries.
Cheerleaders, mostly girls between ages 12 and 17, have been paralyzed and suffered broken bones and concussions. A 1...