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		<title>Not Overweight? You&#8217;re Not Welcome at this Gym</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/20/not-overweight-youre-not-welcome-at-this-gym/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francine Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you live in Chicago or Dallas and have a few pounds to lose, you might spot Downsize Fitness and think you’ll give this new gym a try. Forget it. This is a club that won’t take you as a member—unless you have at least fifty pounds to lose. And they weigh you to make sure. A gym that rejects the svelte and toned?  Could this work?  When Downsize’s founder Francis Wisniewski got his brainstorm almost two years ago, he couldn’t believe it wasn’t already out there. Weighing 360 pounds, the 39-year-old hedge fund manager wouldn’t set foot in a regular gym. He was all too aware that most clubs were filled with “women in tight clothes running 5-minute miles” while he struggled to do 15 minutes on the elliptical machine. “I was also embarrassed about how I looked,“ he said, “and how much I sweated.” His business partner got him a full-time trainer to work with him at home. In November 2011, a 299-pound Wisniewski opened the first Downsize Fitness In Chicago and in September 2012, another in Dallas. The gym’s program is inspired by the approach used on &#8220;The Biggest Loser&#8221; reality show, which tailors workout regimens to help overweight individuals drop pounds. Downsize&#8217;s stated goal is to help the obese lose weight in an environment where they feel comfortable and free of judgment. A complete membership of $250/month (with a 6-month contract) includes personal training and nutrition counseling in small groups of three to six members.  Most trainers know what it takes to shed pounds since they were formerly obese themselves. And while they won’t judge you, they will hold you “accountable.” Skip a few workouts?  Expect a call or text to check up on you. Oh, and you can also compete for a prize in the $25,000 weight loss challenge. Forest McKinney, a 42-year-old audio-visual engineer in Plano, TX, who recently joined the Dallas gym, may be exactly who Wisniewski had in mind. At standard gyms, neither the machines nor the exercises worked for him. At<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86924&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Latest Tool for Tracking Obesity? Facebook Likes</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/25/turning-to-facebook-to-address-obesity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obesity is a big problem that needs big solutions, and Facebook may be coming to the rescue. In a way that&#8217;s never been possible before, people can record their interests, habits and daily activities that at first blush might seem to have only trivial meaning. But such data can be accessed by almost anyone (depending on privacy settings, of course), and that includes researchers. Scientists are turning to Facebook as a way to track how obesity trends, for example, correlate with geographically-specific trends in diet and exercise,  and hope that such information can lead to more targeted ways of reversing the obesity epidemic. The researchers, from Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital, aggregated data on Facebook users&#8217; interests and discovered that the higher percentage of people with interests that related to healthy and active lifestyles in a given area, the lower was that region&#8217;s obesity rate. The opposite was true for areas with a large percentage of people with Facebook interests that related to television, for example. To come up with the link, the scientists studied what national Facebook users posted on their timelines, what they &#8220;liked,&#8221; and what they shared with their friends to come up with nation-wide associations.They also looked specifically at users within New York City and found similar trends at the neighborhood level, documenting that communities with more residents expressing interest in healthy lifestyle behaviors and products showed lower obesity rates than those where residents tended to show more interest in television shows. (MORE: Why Facebook Makes You Feel Bad About Yourself) Nationwide, obesity rates were 12% lower in areas where the highest percentage of Facebook users had exercise-related interests. In New York City, Coney Island, which had the highest percentage of users with activity-related interests had a 7.2% lower obesity rate than Southwest Queens, which had the lowest percentage of Facebook users with active interests. The power of the strategy, the scientists said, lay in the social media&#8217;s ability to focus on both national as well as local trends. &#8220;Definitely in public health [Facebook] is a great source<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=85631&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Timing Matters To Make Diet and Exercise Changes Last</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/22/two-healthy-behaviors-are-better-than-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to making healthy lifestyle changes, which should come first &#8212; changing your diet or becoming more physically active? Researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine report in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine that neither strategy was likely to help individuals meet healthy eating and fitness recommendations and stick with them for a year. For the best results, the scientists found that changing diet and fitness habits simultaneously made the most sense. Previous studies suggested that providing people with too much information about nutrition and physical activity at once can be overwhelming, and tends to discourage, rather than motivate them to improve their habits. That, say the researchers, has led to the popularity of advising people to make incremental changes, and set smaller, more achievable goals to eat healthier meals and to become less sedentary. But, say some experts, continually making new changes can also drain energy and motivation, and lead to a drop in compliance over time. (MORE: 5 Common Mistakes You’re Making at the Gym) So to assess how the two strategies fared in a head-to-head comparison, the scientists recruited 200 inactive participants who were age 45 or older and randomly assigned them to one of four groups that provided nutrition and exercise coaching over the phone. One group was instructed about making diet and fitness changes at the same time, the second group were taught about diet changes first, then fitness changes four months later, the third group changed their exercise habits first and made changes in their eating habits four months later, and the final, control group were not instructed about either diet or fitness changes but about how to manage their stress. The researchers tracked the groups for a full year to determine which strategy was more successful in helping participants achieve the nationally recommended goals of 150 minutes of exercise per week, eating five to nine servings of fruits and vegetables daily and keeping saturated fat intake at less than 10%. Compared to the group that did not receive any dietary or<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=84976&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Working Too Hard? Physically Demanding Jobs Tied to Higher Risk of Heart Disease</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/19/physically-demanding-jobs-are-linked-to-higher-risk-of-heart-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While physical activity can lower the risk of heart disease, two studies suggest that jobs involving hard manual labor may harm, rather than help the heart. Presenting at the annual EuroPRevent 2013 meeting, two separate groups report on the potential dangers of physically demanding work and provide deeper understanding of how manual labor may differ from a gym workout or a run with respect to the heart. The first, from researchers at Harokopio University in Athens, involved 250 first-time stroke patients, 250 patients who experienced their first heart event, and 500 healthy controls, all of whom ranked their jobs on a scale of how physically demanding they were. Those reporting more labor-intensive occupations showed higher rates of heart events; for each one unit drop in the ranking of physical intensity, the participants showed a 20% decline in their chances of having a heart event. The association held even after the researchers adjusted for possible heart disease risk factors such as sex, BMI, smoking, diabetes and diet. (MORE: Long Commute? Your Heart and Waistline May Suffer for It) A second study conducted by researchers from the Department of Public Health at the University of Ghent in Belgium found similar evidence that physically demanding labor could increase risk of heart problems, particularly among those who also exercised during their leisure time. The trial, involving a cohort of over 14,000 middle-aged men without heart disease, provided more details about how occupational and leisure activity might interact. The participants answered questions about their jobs, heart health and any physical activity they did for leisure between 1994 and 1998. After following the men for slightly more than three years on average, the researchers found that those with jobs involving lower levels of physical labor who also engaged in moderate to intense leisure-time activity enjoyed a 60% reduced risk of heart events. But men whose jobs were more physically demanding and who also exercised when they were off the clock showed a nearly 70% increased risk of heart problems. After adjusting for other factors that could<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=84913&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brain Exercises Better than Drugs in Preventing Cognitive Decline</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/15/mental-exercises-are-most-successful-at-preventing-cognitive-decline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With an aging population, rates of dementia will only climb, yet doctors have few effective strategies for addressing the worst symptoms. Mild cognitive impairment, in which older adults show lapses in memory and other mental functions that aren&#8217;t serious enough to impair their daily activities, affects about 10% to 20% of those over age 70. Each year, about 10% of these people will progress to develop dementia, a more serious form of impairment that can drastically affect their independence and ability to function. But despite the growing proportion of the population that may be affected by these conditions, an analysis published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal found that there are few effective options for treating the condition. The researchers reviewed 32 randomized controlled trials, in which patients were randomly assigned to either an intervention such as drugs to control cognitive decline, herbal remedies, physical activity or mental exercises including crossword puzzles; or left to continue living their lives without any changes. By comparing the various methods of treating cognitive decline, the scientists hoped to come up with some ranking of how effective the various interventions were. MORE: Heart Disease Test May Predict Dementia Better Than Cognitive Tests They did not find strong evidence to support medications such as donepezil, a cholinesterase inhibitor designed to help brain chemicals keep neural circuits involved in cognition active. Studies have long hinted that such prescription drugs are only minimally effective in staving off the symptoms of dementia, but with so few medications to treat dementia available, many physicians continue to prescribe the medications since they can help some patients to improve recall. There was also little evidence supporting the effectiveness of natural remedies such as the herbal supplement ginkgo, the  hormone dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), or vitamin B and omega-3 fatty acids. The majority of the studies found these remedies had little to no effect on improving scores on memory tests or other evaluations of cognitive functions. (MORE: Brain Aging: What’s Nintendo Got to Do With It?) Studies investigating the role of estrogen and testosterone therapy showed<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=84667&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Memory</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://healthland.time.com/category/mental-health/memory/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timewellness.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/bb4691-002-1.jpg?w=240</featured_image>
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		<title>Lifting Weights Can Control Blood Sugar</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/10/lifting-weights-can-control-blood-sugar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diabetes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest study finds an intriguing connection between weight-bearing exercises and a lower risk of diabetes. While lifting weights is more often associated with strengthening muscle and keeping bones healthy, those exercises primarily benefit what&#8217;s known as red muscle, which gets its color from mitochondria, the energy factories of cells. Red muscle is the core of endurance athletes&#8217; strength and helps them to power through sustained workouts. But it turns out that another type of muscle, white muscle, which is more prevalent among sprinters,  weightlifters and those who use resistance training, where short bursts of energy are critical, may play a role in regulating blood sugar. White muscle also becomes more prevalent as people age, as the cells start to rely more on glucose for energy. That&#8217;s partly why researchers have long believed that the shift from red to white muscle is can be harmful, since the dependence on glucose can encourage insulin resistance. Greater demand for sugar leads to higher  levels of the hormone insulin that can overwhelm cells and leave them unable to respond to the sugar-metabolizing hormone, which provides the ideal environment for diabetes. But in the latest research published in the journal Nature Medicine, scientists from the Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan question that view, reporting that white muscle may actually keep blood sugar levels in check. (MORE: Mind Your Reps: Exercise, Especially Weight Lifting, Helps Keep the Brain Sharp) &#8220;Despite the good correlation between diabetes and white muscle, the cause and effect relationship has not been proven and remains controversial,&#8221; says study author Jiandie Lin, a Life Sciences Institute faculty member and associate professor at the University of Michigan Medical School. The researchers bred mice to pump out more of a protein &#8212; called BAF60c &#8212; linked to the development of white muscle. They found that mice with higher levels of BAF60c did in fact have paler muscles, which confirmed that the protein is part of the pathway for their white muscle development. They then put the mice on treadmills to compare their physical endurance to a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=84159&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Stretching May Not Help Before Exercise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To stretch or not to stretch? The latest understanding of preworkout routines may have you rethinking yours. Recently, the New York Times summed up the latest evidence suggesting that static stretching — slowly moving muscles until they just start to hurt and holding the stretch briefly — doesn&#8217;t prevent injuries, and actually impairs strength and speed in some athletes. According to the Times, two recent studies support limiting stretching before physical activity. The Times reports: One, a study being published this month in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, concluded that if you stretch before you lift weights, you may find yourself feeling weaker and wobblier than you expect during your workout. Those findings join those of another new study from Croatia, a bogglingly comprehensive reanalysis of data from earlier experiments that was published in The Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. Together, the studies augment a growing scientific consensus that pre-exercise stretching is generally unnecessary and likely counterproductive. One of the studies from researchers at the University of Zagreb reviewed 104 studies of people who only practiced static stretching as their warm-up and found that stretching reduced muscle strength by 5.5%. The second study looked at fit men who completed basic squats while lifting barbells either with or without stretching beforehand. Those that stretched lifted 8.3% less weight than those who didn&#8217;t. And these are not the only studies to report the trend. In fact, most physical trainers haven&#8217;t recommended long bouts of stretching before workouts for quite some time. Most suggest just a little light and brief stretch beforehand, and spending more time on recovery stretching afterwards. &#8220;It has been a long time since anyone has recommended extensive stretching before exercise, because it has been known for a while now that the best time to stretch is after,&#8221; says Richard Cotton, the national director of certification at the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). (MORE: It’s Not Too Late to Start: Tips for Training for a Distance Run) So why did stretching become such an<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=84019&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Walk, or Run, to Lower Heart Disease Risk: Benefits Are Similar</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/05/walk-or-run-to-lower-heart-disease-risk-benefits-are-similar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A brisk walk may be just as good as a run for keeping the the heart healthy. That&#8217;s encouraging, considering less than half of Americans meet the government’s recommendation of at least 2.5 hours of moderate to intense aerobic exercise a week. A new study published in the American Heart Association (AHA) journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology found that walkers lowered their risk of high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes as much as runners. VIDEO: A Faster Stride Predicts a Longer Life Researchers studied 33,060 runners who were participating in the National Runners’ Health Study and 15,045 walkers enrolled in the National Walkers’ Health Study over six years. All the participants were between the ages of 18 to 80, with most in their 40s and 50s. The exercises answered questionnaires about their physical activity, and the researchers calculated how much energy they expended based on the distance the volunteers reported walking or running. They also recorded any doctor-diagnosed heart conditions. (MORE: A Daily Walk Can Reduce the Power of Weight-Gaining Genes) The scientists found that while vigorous running required slightly higher levels of energy than moderate intensity walking, both translated into a parallel drop in incidence of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, or heart disease over the study period. And the more the participants walked or ran, the greater the benefit in lowering their heart disease risk. Although walking isn&#8217;t as intense as running, the study authors say both target the same muscle groups, which could explain why their results in improving heart health are so similar. The results suggest that the type of exercise may not be as important as how much people walk or run. Here&#8217;s what the researchers found: Running significantly reduced the risk for being diagnosed with hypertension by 4.2% while walking reduced the risk by 7.2% Running reduced the chances of having high cholesterol by 4.3% and walking by 7% Running lowered risk of diabetes by 12.1% while walking dropped the risk by 12.3% Running reduced coronary heart disease risk by 4.5% compared to 9.3% for walking. The results are encouraging since walking<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=83925&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Self-Help the Secret to Reducing Childhood Obesity?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/01/is-self-help-the-secret-to-reducing-childhood-obesity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no shortage of strategies to lose weight, but which work best for children? One in three U.S. kids weighs too much, according to the latest government statistics, but parents don&#8217;t have too many appealing options when it comes to helping their children slim down. The gold standard treatment for childhood obesity that&#8217;s typically endorsed by weight-loss specialists involves six months of weekly clinic visits lasting 90 minutes each during which families learn the basics of nutrition and are introduced to ideas such as  &#8221;stimulus control&#8221; — or bringing only healthy food into their homes lessen the temptation from more calorie-ridden, unhealthy products. But many parents can’t afford the time or money that requires. MORE: Cutting Out Soda Curbs Children&#8217;s Weight Gain, Studies Show Now researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) say parents can help their kids lose weight without such costly and time-consuming intervention by relying on a self-help “coaching” method that requires only bi-weekly guidance from a pediatrician. In a study published in the journal Pediatrics, the scientists found that using the self-help model resulted in a 12-year-old of average height losing five pounds over the five-month study period compared to children who received no guidance about weight loss. Those kids who got no treatment during the study period actually gained weight: a 12-year-old of average height put on five pounds. “We saw significant losses in the guided self-help kids while the control group continued to gain weight,” says Kerri Boutelle, lead author and a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at UCSD. The more flexible approach — which reduced face-to-face treatment time from about 36 hours over six months to less than five hours over five months — could potentially help more families and broaden the reach of childhood-obesity treatment, say the study authors. “This is the first time this kind of model has been tested and it looks promising,” says Boutelle. MORE: BPA Linked with Obesity in Kids and Teens Fifty families with overweight or obese children between the ages of 8 and 12 participated in the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=83379&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kids Who Exercise Are Less Likely to Have Fractures in Old Age</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/25/kids-who-exercise-are-less-likely-to-have-fractures-in-old-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It turns out that strengthening bone to avoid fractures starts at a very young age. Physical activity, such as the exercise children get in school gym classes, is important for fighting obesity, but the latest research suggests it may help to keep bones strong as well. For six years, researchers from Skane University Hospital in Malmo, Sweden, followed 808 boys and girls ages 7 to 9 who were asked to participate in 40 minutes of physical activity daily during school. The scientists recorded the children&#8217;s skeletal development, and documented any reports of fractures and compared these results with those of a similarly aged control group that completed 60 minutes of physical activity over a week. Reporting at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine&#8217;s Specialty Day in Chicago, the researchers found that during the study period, children in the group that exercised daily reported 72 fractures, while those in the control group recorded 143 fractures. Those who were physically active for 40 minutes a day also showed higher bone density in the spine compared with those who did not exercise as much. Bone density is an indication of bone strength, and the denser bone density is early in life, the stronger bones remain decades later, when natural thinning of bones weakens the skeleton and increases the risk of fractures and breaks. (MORE: 10 Ways to Build Healthy Bones and Keep Them Strong) To correlate these results with fracture risk later in life, the researchers also studied 708 former male athletes in their 60s and 70s and compared their fracture rates and bone-density scores with those of healthy men of the same age who had not been trained at an elite level. The former athletes showed a smaller rate of loss in bone density on average than the nonathletes, suggesting that their bones were better able to avoid fractures. &#8220;According to our study, exercise interventions in childhood may be associated with lower fracture risks as people age, due to the increases in peak bone mass that occurs in growing children who perform regular<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=82883&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How a Healthy Heart Can Lower Risk of Cancer</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/19/how-a-healthy-heart-can-lower-risk-of-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hearts and tumors may actually share more in common than we think. Following heart-healthy recommendations can also protect you from cancer, according to the latest study from the American Heart Association (AHA). Eating a healthy diet, exercising and maintaining your weight have long been ways to fend off heart disease, but researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago report in the journal Circulation that following the AHA&#8217;s Life&#8217;s Simple 7 steps to reduce heart disease can also cut cancer risk. The Life&#8217;s Simple 7 include: Being physically active Keeping a healthy weight Eating a healthy diet Maintaining healthy cholesterol levels Keeping blood pressure down Regulating blood sugar levels Not smoking (MORE: Berries Linked to Lower Heart Disease Among Women) Researchers studied the health records of 13,253 white and African-American men and women who were involved in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, which tracked the seven risk factors and the participants&#8217; health outcomes since 1987. At the beginning of the study, the volunteers were examined and  interviewed about which healthy behaviors they followed. Twenty years later, the researchers reviewed hospital records and cancer registries and discovered that 2,880 of the participants were diagnosed with cancer of the lung, colon or rectum, prostate and breast. Those who were diagnosed, however, tended to follow fewer of the Life&#8217;s Simple 7 behaviors than those who did not develop cancer. People who followed six of the seven health metrics had a 51% lower cancer risk than the participants who did not meet any of the steps. The relationship held even after the scientists accounted for the effect of smoking on cancer risk; when smoking was taken out of the equation, participants who followed five to six of the health steps had a 25% lower cancer risk. (MORE: For Better Heart Health Exercise Harder, Not Longer) &#8220;This adds to the strong body of research suggesting that it is never late to change, and that if you make changes like quitting smoking and improving your diet, you can reduce your risk for both cardiovascular disease and cancer,&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=82460&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s National Nutrition Month: Health Tips From Some the Fittest People Out There</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/06/its-national-nutrition-month-health-tips-from-some-the-fittest-people-out-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<title>Yoga and the Mind: Can Yoga Reduce Symptoms of Major Psychiatric Disorders?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/28/yoga-and-the-mind-can-yoga-reduce-symptoms-of-major-psychiatric-disorders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yoga does the body good, and according to a new study, it may ease the mind as well. &#8220;Yoga has also become such a cultural phenomenon that it has become difficult for physicians and consumers to differentiate legitimate claims from hype,&#8221; researchers from Duke University Medical Center write in their study, published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry. In order to explore the widely held belief that practicing yoga can relieve mental stress, the team reviewed more than 100 studies on the effect of yoga and mental health. &#8220;Most individuals already know that yoga produces some kind of a calming effect. Individually, people feel better after doing the physical exercise,&#8221; says lead study author Dr. P. Murali Doraiswamy, a professor of psychiatry and medicine at Duke University Medical Center. &#8220;Mentally, people feel calmer, sharper, maybe more content. We thought it’s time to see if we could pull all [the literature] together &#8230; to see if there’s enough evidence that the benefits individual people notice can be used to help people with mental illness.&#8221; (MORE: Yoga Can Help Stroke Survivors Regain Their Balance) Their findings suggest that yoga does in fact have positive effects on mild depression and sleep problems, and it improves the symptoms of psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia and ADHD among patients using medication. The researchers focused on 16 studies that recorded the effects of practicing yoga on mental-health issues ranging from depression, schizophrenia, ADHD, sleep complaints and eating disorders to cognitive problems. They found positive effects of the mind-and-body practice for all conditions with the exception of eating disorders and cognition. Those studies involved too few participants or produced conflicting results to draw any meaningful conclusions. Some of the studies included in the analysis even suggested that yoga might affect the body in ways similar to antidepressants and psychotherapy. For instance, yoga may influence brain chemicals known as neurotransmitters (boosting levels of feel-good agents like serotonin), lower inflammation, reduce oxidative stress and produce a healthier balance of lipids and growth factors — just as other forms of exercise<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=78815&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Tried This: With MovNat, Play Like You&#8217;re a Kid Again</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/18/we-tried-this-with-movnat-play-like-youre-a-kid-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything old becomes new again, so it was just a matter of time before the next big thing in fitness turned out to be climbing and running and jumping — you know, the things you used to do as a kid and before you knew it was exercise. It&#8217;s a new year, which means gyms are brimming with people working up a sweat to fulfill New Year&#8217;s resolutions. But for some, a gym full of blaring music and treadmills is the last place they go to get fit. Except now it&#8217;s called &#8220;natural movement,&#8221; and, as it was when you were young, there&#8217;s no gym necessary. Instead of eeking out sets of pull ups or pumping free weights, you shimmy up trees and hurl boulders. It&#8217;s probably the oldest way to workout, but somehow it&#8217;s fallen out of favor. That&#8217;s why MovNat fans are hoping to bring it back, and along with it, a more practical perspective on why we should be fit. Devotees bill it as a paleo-fitness, functional movement system and followers believe being &#8220;beach ready&#8221; doesn&#8217;t mean washboard abs, but rather being capable of rolling, crawling and sprinting across the sand&#8211;possibly to dive into raging waters to save a struggling swimmer. Seriously. (VIDEO: We Tried This: Aerial Vinyasa (or Upside-Down) Yoga) &#8220;This isn&#8217;t about the elite fitness of winning gold medals. It is about doing the movements that make us humans, and acquiring a physical competence that we can maintain for a lifetime,&#8221; says Erwan Le Corre, who created MovNat in 2008. MovNat is a fitness system based on natural human movement and builds upon the basic activities we engaged in as kids while we played: running, crawling, jumping, lifting and catching. It&#8217;s influenced by some of the earliest fitness training methods like Georges Hebert’s “Methode Naturelle,” which relied on using natural &#8220;props&#8221; like trees and hills to improve strength and agility. Urban jungles, MovNat fans argue, don&#8217;t count. In fact, living indoors has interfered with our ability to move as effortlessly and naturally as we used to in navigating<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=77951&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yay for Recess: Pediatricians Say It&#8217;s as Important as Math or Reading</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/31/yay-for-recess-pediatricians-say-its-as-important-as-math-or-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Playtime can be as important as class time for helping students perform their best. Recess is most children&#8217;s favorite period, and parents and teachers should encourage that trend, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Recess can be a critical time for development and social interaction, and in a new policy statement published in the journal Pediatrics, pediatricians from the AAP support the importance of having a scheduled break in the school day. “Children need to have downtime between complex cognitive challenges,” says Dr. Robert Murray, a pediatrician and professor of human nutrition at the Ohio State University who is a co-author of the statement. “They tend to be less able to process information the longer they are held to a task. It’s not enough to just switch from math to English. You actually have to take a break.” The AAP committee that developed the statement began its research in 2007, expecting to discover that recess is important as a physical outlet for children. What they found, however, was that playtime&#8217;s benefits extend beyond the physical. “We came to the realization that it really affects social, emotional and cognitive development in a much deeper way than we’d expected,” she says. “It helps children practice conflict resolution if we allow them unstructured play, and it lets them come back to class more ready to learn and less fidgety.” The policy could be a lifeline for the dwindling role recess plays in the school day as districts trim budgets and hours of instruction, and squeeze more academic subjects into existing or even fewer school days, often sacrificing recess in the process. A year ago, a national survey found that just six states — Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Illinois and Iowa — adhere to standards from the National Association for Sports and Physical Education that schoolchildren participate in 150 minutes a week of physical education. And just three states — Delaware, Virginia and Nebraska — have 20 minutes of mandatory elementary-school recess a day, according to research published in the Archives<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=76991&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Power Up, Slim Down: Mobile Apps May Help With Weight Loss</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/11/power-up-slim-down-mobile-apps-may-help-with-weight-loss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Blue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even for older adults who aren&#8217;t tech-savvy, simple digital tools and occasional phone support can dramatically improve weight-management success – and at a fraction of the cost of intensive one-on-one counseling. That&#8217;s what the latest research on the subject published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine shows. Scientists worked with 70 overweight and obese adults enrolled in the Veterans Affairs weight-loss program, MOVE!, and randomly selected half of them to receive tech-based support tools in addition to MOVE!&#8217;s usual health-education class. Over three months to one year, people in the tech group lost 7 lbs more, on average, than people just attending classes – even though almost everyone in the study was computer-illiterate when the program began. People in the tech group were also almost four times as likely to have lost at least 5% of their body mass after six months, and twice as likely to have maintained a weight loss of that amount after one year. But the secret to the new technology&#8217;s success, researchers say, are relatively low-tech and well-established principles of making weight-management convenient and ensuring that people feel accountable for their choices. &#8220;As behavior-change specialists, we know a very sad truth: knowledge is rarely enough to change behavior,&#8221; says Bonnie Spring, lead author on the new study, and a professor of preventive medicine and the director for the Center of Behavior and Health at Northwestern Medicine. &#8220;What it [usually] takes to treat obesity is a lot of in-person intensive counseling,&#8221; Spring says. But that&#8217;s not easy to provide within the current health-care system. &#8220;Physicians are asked to be responsible for their patients&#8217; weight management,&#8221; she says, &#8220;but they don’t really have the time or the expertise.&#8221; That&#8217;s why she and her colleagues searched for a technology-based &#8220;work-around&#8221;: something that would be inexpensive and would not require a big time commitment from users, but would still provide the personalized attention and frequent feedback that makes expert counseling so effective. In the study, every volunteer was encouraged to attend the biweekly MOVE! classes, which taught nutrition, realistic<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=75814&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Diet Strategies Show Promise in Lowering Risk of Diabetes</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/11/diet-strategies-show-promise-in-lowering-risk-of-diabetes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s one thing to find a strategy that works in the lab, but quite another to prove that it’s effective in the real world as well. A decade ago, researchers at the National Institutes of Health made headlines when they published the results of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP). The study, which was designed to compare the effects of diet and exercise against the best medications to control the chronic disease, surprisingly showed that diet and exercise were better than the best drugs scientists had developed to protect those at highest risk from developing diabetes. The results were encouraging and disheartening at the time, however, since lifestyle changes are notoriously the most difficult to implement. It’s too challenging for patients to stick with a diet and exercise program, and even if they did, their motivation typically wanes after six months. MORE: Type 2 Diabetes is Tougher To Treat in Kids and Teens But the findings —the diet and exercise group lowered their risk of getting diabetes by 58% compared to those on medications —were too stunning to ignore. The DPP relied on intensive and highly individualized coaching to help the patients stay on their diet and fitness regimens. How could the strategies used in the DPP be modified to work in the real world, where personal nutritionists and trainers aren’t always at our beck and call? Dr. Jun Ma, an associate investigator at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute and a consulting professor at Stanford University, was eager to find out. As a primary care physician, she says, “we know there are huge numbers of patients out there who need this type of intervention. We just don’t have the manpower and resources to deliver interventions such as the one tested in the DPP. That motivated me and my collaborators to find practical ways of delivering the principles of DPP in a more realistic manner.” VIDEO: Competing in the Olympics with Type 1 Diabetes Ma joined forces with scientists at the University of Pittsburgh who had participated in the government’s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=75827&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Even Brief Exercise Can Improve Memory In Older Adults</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/27/even-brief-exercise-can-improve-memory-in-older-adults/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A daily dose of exercise is good for both mind and body, but how much is enough? To find out, researchers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) examined more than 50 adults between the ages 50 to 85, half of whom had memory deficits and half of whom were mentally healthy. They divided the participants into two groups—one that exercised on a stationary bike for six minutes and another that did not. All provided a saliva sample, and to test their memory, were shown 20 images of animals and nature scenes. An hour after the exercise group worked out at 70% of their maximum ability, the volunteers were given a  surprise memory test to recall as many images as they could from the previously viewed set. (MORE: Exercise Trumps Brain Games in Keeping Our Minds Intact) Compared to the participants who did not exercise, all of the exercising participants, regardless of whether they had cognitive impairments or not, showed improved memory after their short spin on the bicycle. &#8220;We saw significantly better recall in the exercise group than in the non-exercise group,&#8221; says lead study author Sabrina Segal, in the UCI postdoctoral program. &#8220;This was particularly significant in cognitively impaired participants who almost doubled their recall improvement.&#8221; The researchers, who published their results in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, believe the benefit may be tied to an exercised-induced brain chemical called norepinephrine, which has a strong influence on memory. By examining the saliva samples, which the exercise group provided both before and after their exercise sessions, the researchers found that immediately following their workout, the exercise group had high levels of the enzyme salivary alpha amylase, a biomarker for norepinephrine. The link was even higher in participants who started out with cognitive deficits. Previous research with drugs that influence norepinephrine levels showed that increasing norepinephrine can improve memory, while blocking it impairs recall. &#8220;What&#8217;s exciting to us about this is that not only did exercise increase the biomarker for this brain chemical, but we saw more of this chemical released and with that, better recall. This<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=74770&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Muscle Madness: More Teens Are Bulking Up</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/20/muscle-madness-more-teens-are-bulking-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teens place a premium on muscular builds and are increasingly taking chances with their health to get them. When it comes to body image, more is better, at least when it comes to muscle, according to a recent study of teens and body image. Published in the journal Pediatrics, the analysis involved 2,793 middle- and high school students living in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area who reportedly bulking up by using products like steroids and protein powders. The scientists found that the adolescents see toned and muscular bodies as the ideal, and are willing to change eating and exercise habits, as well as use supplements and steroids that have been linked to adverse health effects, to enhance muscle development. Boys were more likely to take up these habits, with two-thirds of those surveyed reporting changing their eating habit to favor muscle mass. Thirty-five percent of boys used protein powders and 6% used steroids. Although building bigger muscles was less common among girls, 21% reported using protein powders, 4.6% used steroids and 5.5% used other substances. In total, 12% of boys and 6% of girls engaged in three or more different behaviors to gain muscle. &#8220;This ﬁnding suggests that, in addition to a &#8216;thin ideal&#8217; and focus on leanness, muscularity is an important component of body satisfaction for both genders,&#8221; the authors write. (MORE: Which Drugs Is Lance Armstrong Accused of Taking?) &#8220;We were very alarmed by the high numbers of youth using muscle enhancers such as protein supplements. These behaviors suggest high concerns about youth with regard to muscularity,&#8221; says study author Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, a professor of epidemiology and community health at the University of Minnesota. But the results are complicated by the fact that building muscle may also promote some beneficial behaviors, particularly among teens who were obese. In fact, greater use of muscle-building behaviors was found among kids with higher BMIs or struggling with obesity. The authors write: Although it is appropriate to promote physical activity in youth, which may have desirable benefits in terms of health and body composition, care should be taken to emphasize moderation in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=74095&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Need a New Workout? Just Add Water</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/10/31/need-a-new-workout-just-add-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not feeling the StairMaster today? Consider taking a dip in the pool. Working out in water can provide nearly the same aerobic benefits as sweating it out on land. In a small study presented at the 2012 Canadian Cardiovascular Congress, researchers from the Montreal Heart Institute monitored 22 healthy individuals as they worked out both on stationary bikes on land and on an immersible ergocycle&#8211;the water-logged version&#8211;in chest-high water. The cycling regimens got progressively more intense until the participants reached exhaustion. Overall, the scientists found that the cyclists gained practically the same aerobic benefits from working out in the water as they did breaking a sweat in the gym. (MORE: We Tried This: Shockwave Rowing Workout) To assess how participants improved their exercise and aerobic capacity, the researchers looked at their maximum oxygen consumption, or VO2max. They found that when the participants cycled in the pool, their VO2max was about 80% of their VO2max on land. While exercising in water, the volunteers also recorded lower heart rates than on land. &#8220;What was exciting was that the cardiovascular system appears to be more efficient during exercise in water,&#8221; says study author Dr. Anil Nigam. &#8220;For a given exercise intensity, heart rate was lower in the water, but for every heart beat, the heart pumped out more blood. Therefore the heart is more efficient during water exercise.&#8221; (SPECIAL: How To Cross-Train: 5 Alternative Workouts For Runners) The researchers say this is partly due to the hydrostatic pressure of water, which increases blood flow from the body&#8217;s extremities back to the heart. Nigam says that during water exercise, there is an &#8220;unloading effect&#8221; of the water on the limbs, which makes exercise easier on the joints. That&#8217;s why water workouts could benefit people with joint problems like those suffering from arthritis or obesity, and now, it turns out these folks may be getting a better heart workout as well. (MORE: Gym Jeeves: Yes, You Can Hire a Fitness Concierge) The American Heart Association (AHA) encourages people to aim for at least 30 minutes<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=72786&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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