Full Body Workout

1. Arm Accentuate
Works: shoulders, arms, back

Stand with feet hip-width apart, knees soft, a medium weight in each hand, palms forward. Lean forward slightly and bend elbows, drawing weights towards ribs as you squeeze shoulder blades together (as shown). Lower arms; repeat. Do two sets of 15 reps. [Read more]

Changing your living habits

You exercise, eat right, and maintain a healthy lifestyle? But things still don’t feel quite right, that because you might have too many bad habits that you don’t even realize your doing. Here is a list of 5 bad habits to kick that’ll improve your health in an instant. [Read more]

Medical Breakthroughs

Top 5 medical breakthroughs for women 2008

1. Obesity
Controlling appetite with leptin

The hot world in obesity this year was leptin. When a connection between this hormone and weight loss was first discovered in 1994, researchers helped fat, overfed lab mice stay slim. And they believed they could do with people what they did with mice: Inject some leptin, and kiss pounds good-bye. Humans, it turned out, were more complicated. When they lost weight their bodies became stingier with calories consumed and more efficient in retaining existing weight. Not willing to give up on leptin, scientists at Colombia Univeristy Medical Center in New York City Started looking at the hormone as a possible weight-loss-maintenance drug. They discovered through scans that brain activity areas connected to restraint and control declines after weight loss. [Read more]

Angel Food Cake

Need to enjoy a treat after a healthy Christmas dinner? Well here’s one that won’t do too much harm.

Ingredients
• 1 3/4 cups sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup cake flour, sifted
• 12 egg whites (the closer to room temperature the better)
• 1/3 cup warm water
• 1 teaspoon orange extract, or extract of your choice
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cream of tartar

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Deviled Eggs

Ingredients
• 12 hard-boiled eggs peeled
• 1/2 cup EatingWell Mayonnaise
• 2 tablespoons chopped chives
• 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
• Salt & freshly ground pepper to taste
• Paprika for garnish

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Crab Salad

This is a great new easy recipe to keep in mind during the hoildays and balance some healthy eating as you enjoy certain holiday treats.

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Will Smith -Seven Pounds the Movie

Will Smith may be one movie’s biggest stars, but the actor had a little stage fright when it came time to film his love scene with “Seven Pounds” co-star Rosario Dawson.

“Here is the guy who was pushing our kiss to like the end and the end and the end of the schedule,” Rosario told Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson. “So the point was like, ‘OK, I know I don’t smell bad… I know I brushed my teeth…I did the deodorant!’”

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