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Tempted to grab an apple or pear at a farm’s roadside stand and sink your teeth into it? DON’T! In a recent issue of Real Simple magazine, they assessed the risk factor of various actions, eating unwashed fruit being one of them, and it received their highest risk factor rating. As they […]

Eating fruits and vegetables on a regular basis is certainly a terrific foundation to any diet, but it gets bumped up a notch when you’re consciously choosing foods that may decrease your risk of developing ovarian cancer, which happens to be the fifth-leading cancer killer among women.
Amping up your intake of low-fat, high-fiber foods, like […]

It’s hard to believe that it was way back in 1989 when the American Gladiators show first hit television screens, but it was. Given their massive physique, the gladiators need some pretty powerful diets to keep up with the demands of the competition, and they eat as much protein in one day as we […]

Singer/rapper/actress/Cover Girl model Queen Latifah has always struck me as someone who has been very comfortable with her body, and more power to her for that. So even though she recently signed on as the newest celebrity face behind Jenny Craig, following in the footsteps of Valerie Bertinelli and Kirstie Alley, it’s no surprise […]

Unfortunately, no matter how I make it, my husband is not going to become a fan of broccoli any time soon. Sometimes, if I’m lucky, I can chop it up small enough and hide it in a casserole, and he’ll manage a few bites before picking the rest out, but he ain’t requesting it […]

Dannon, the popular yogurt company, is in a little bit of legal trouble right now. A class action lawsuit has been filed against them over their marketing tactics for their Activia and DanActive yogurt products. Activia is marketed as being “clinically proven to help regulate the digestive system when eaten daily for two […]

Author Michael Pollan did a full two years of research in writing his latest book, In Defense of Health. Throughout the nutrition and health tome, he offers this bottom line, “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Sounds simple enough.
In a recent issue of People magazine, he gave a few of […]

With the Christmas holidays nearly upon us, the folks at Shape magazine have put together a shopping guide that just may help you cross your favorite workout lover off your shopping list:

Gold’s Gym Alpine Tech adjustable weight jumprope ($11 at Wal-Mart)
CherryMax Hammerhead sled to give you total control on steep or icy hills ($299 at […]

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Stranger leaps have been made, that’s for certain, but the December 2007 issue of Shape magazine cited two recent studies that indicate that the compounds in ground ginger help women in their battle against two different types of cancer. In the article, Woo Kyung Kim, Ph.D., a professor from Eulji University in South Korea […]