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Taking five with yoga teacher Tara Stiles
When yoga teacher Tara Stiles listed her influences on her YouTube profile, she typed in "Deepak Chopra, Jane Fonda and Yoko Ono."
Shortly thereafter, Stiles become Chopra's personal yoga instructor; together they created an iPhone app and several yoga...Tags: Vegetarian Diet, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Dance, New York City, Entertainment
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No rest for the weary
If you're short on time — and your goal is to burn fat — step away from the treadmill. Now get into the weight room and try supersetting your resistance training.
Supersets — a bodybuilding term gaining popularity in fitness centers &#...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Music, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Entertainment, Medical Research
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Firms warned over sale of weight-loss hormone
"Homeopathic" weight-loss products containing human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) are illegal and mislead consumers, federal agencies said Tuesday after issuing warning letters to seven companies that market the popular pellets, powders and sprays.
In a...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Weight, Placebo, Infertility, Companies and Corporations
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Doctor titles: What's the difference?
Finding the right medical expert can be one of the most frustrating aspects of health care. Osteopathic physicians are medical doctors (M.D.s), for example, but not all M.D.s are osteopathic physicians. Meanwhile, all dietitians are nutritionists, but not...Tags: Medical Specialization, Internal Medicine, Health and Medical Professionals, General Practitioners, Internists
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Bob Harper: Fit is his forte
Bob Harper, best known as the gregarious, never-give-up fitness trainer co-host of the television show "The Biggest Loser," gets a little crabby when he can't work out. He thinks people, in general, are lazy. And he misses his longtime former co-host,...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Quakerism, Television Industry, Entertainment, Overweight
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A rare health club beckons the obese
Tara Lawton says she quit going to her health club in part because she sensed she didn't fit in. People always seemed to be staring at — and silently judging — her 280-pound body.
Then Lawton stumbled on the Facebook page for Downsize...Tags: Chicago Loop, West Loop, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Chicago Tribune, Mutual Funds
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Long-discredited hCG diet makes a comeback
Among the hundreds of drastic and unproven weight loss plans, the controversial hCG diet may take the cake.
Discredited by researchers in the 1970s, the near-starvation diet restricts followers to 500 calories a day for six weeks. At the same time,...Tags: Human Interest, Hormones and Metabolism, Entertainment, Human Body, Physical Conditions
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Risk of disease partially set in womb, scientists say
Pregnant women sacrifice many of life's simple pleasures — caffeine, sushi, a glass of wine — in the hope that their baby will be born healthy.
But according to a provocative new field of research, what happens during pregnancy can have...Tags: Medical Specialization, Cancer, Chicago Tribune, Hormones and Metabolism, Heart Disease
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Threats to the fetus during pregnancy
Poor nutrition in the womb and infancy can reprogram the body's organs, setting the stage for disease decades down the road, according to the fetal origins theory. Much less is known about the impact of environmental and psychological exposures, but...Tags: Cancer, Heart Disease, New York City, Genes and Chromosomes, Depression
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Fitness tips from top trainers
North America's top fitness professionals don't necessarily train celebrities and professional athletes or badger overweight reality-TV contestants into shape.
Instead, they work with recreational runners who want to get faster, they inspire virtual...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Consumer Goods Industries, Weight, Overweight, Entertainment
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Start horsing around
Roughhousing, or tossing your children around on purpose, can be a hard sell to many parents. We worry our kids will get hurt. We don't want rowdy behavior carrying over into the classroom, especially in schools with no-touching policies. And many of us...Tags: Human Interest, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Examinations, Culture, Cultural Development
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Doubts cast on concussion remedies
Tribune reporterTo help protect their brains, athletes are now given preseason computer tests that assess memory, concentration and reaction time. Some players don helmets with "concussion reduction technology" or use special mouth guards that promise to "prevent...Tags: National Hockey League, Athletes, College Sports, Concussion, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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