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The afterburners: Is post workout calorie burn real?
During an exercise session, vigorous cardiovascular workouts such as running or biking can typically torch more calories than resistance or strength training. But what happens once the workout is over? Exercise scientists have long debated the...Tags: Research, Cycling, Medical Research, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health
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For diabetes patients, oases in the food desert
Rhonda Moore has her health back.
Diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in 2009, Moore, 58, has reduced her blood glucose levels significantly through healthy eating and daily exercise. But a lack of supermarkets in her North Chicago neighborhood makes it...Tags: Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Mexico, Walgreen Co., Physical Fitness and Exercise
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In-Your-Face Fitness: Is there a right way for women to get ripped abs?
There is something surreal about a former champion bodybuilder lifting up her shirt to show you her abs in the middle of a coffee shop.
Sandra Bueckert is a 45-year-old mother of two and one of the best-known personal trainers in my hometown, and she...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health, University of California, Los Angeles, International Olympic Committee, Drugs and Medicines
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Ricky Williams' retirement casts Ravens' running back situation into uncertainty
The long, circuitous ride that is Ricky Williams' football career again swerved abruptly Tuesday when the Ravens' enigmatic reserve running back announced that he was retiring from the NFL.
Since early last week, Williams, who reached the 10,000-yard...Tags: John Harbaugh, American Football Conference, Health, Holistic Medicines, Matt Lawrence
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The power of meditation
To understand the impact meditation can have on the human mind, picture a glass of muddy water. If you stir it, the water stays cloudy and anything that might sink to the bottom is instantly sucked back into motion. But if you allow the glass to become...Tags: Electroencephalography, Health Treatments, Ellicott City, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Human Body
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Virginia GA expected to vote on HPV vaccine Friday
Republican Del. Kathy Byron introduced a bill to end Virginia's requirement to notify parents about the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine. The vaccine prevents cervical cancer and is recommended for girls entering 6th grade in Virginia. Virginia requires...Tags: Preventative Medicine, Health, Disease Prevention, Pharmaceuticals, Vaccines
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Picking a therapist
"Being in therapy is great," comedian Caroline Rhea once joked. "I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date." It's not a bad analogy — the dating one — when you're setting out to find a therapist. You...Tags: Culture, Health, Education, Pharmaceuticals, Health and Medical Professionals
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Ask the Expert: Q&A with Chicago's public health commissioner
January is the time for resolutions and as commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, Dr. Bechara Choucair is responsible for the wellness goals of an entire city.
The department recently created a new public health agenda called "Healthy...Tags: Englewood, Spina Bifida, Health and Safety at School, Health Organizations, Colleges and Universities
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Simple story had unexpected effects
Tribune NewspapersIt has been 50 years since Ezra Jack Keats introduced the world to young Peter, the little hand-painted boy who awakens to a fresh snowfall and sets out on a joyful errand. "He picked up a handful of snow — and another, and still another. He packed...Tags: Literature, Arts and Culture, Preventative Medicine, Health, Disease Prevention
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Interview with Zippy creator Bill Griffith
![Good thing Bill Griffith did not take Marcel Duchamp seriously. Otherwise, we'd be without Zippy (aka Zippy the Pinhead), the best-drawn daily underground comic strip in America, still running in 300 newspapers. Griffith, at the time a 19-year-old art student at the Pratt Institute, ran into Duchamp at a gallery hosting a retrospective by the venerable Dadaist. When he told Duchamp that he, too, wanted to be an artist, the old man sternly warned, "Go into medicine. The world needs more doctors than artists."](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-02/67913723-08093607.jpg "Good thing Bill Griffith did not take Marcel Duchamp seriously. Otherwise, we'd be without Zippy (aka Zippy the Pinhead), the best-drawn daily underground comic strip in America, still running in 300 newspapers. Griffith, at the time a 19-year-old art student at the Pratt Institute, ran into Duchamp at a gallery hosting a retrospective by the venerable Dadaist. When he told Duchamp that he, too, wanted to be an artist, the old man sternly warned, "Go into medicine. The world needs more doctors than artists.\"")
Good thing Bill Griffith did not take Marcel Duchamp seriously. Otherwise, we'd be without Zippy (aka Zippy the Pinhead), the best-drawn daily underground comic strip in America, still running in 300 newspapers. Griffith, at the time a 19-year-old art...Tags: East Village (Manhattan, New York), Cartoons, Health, Artists, Book
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Prescription for heartache
With close to 2 million Americans dependent on or abusing prescription painkillers, a growing number of families are redefining their notions of what a drug addict looks like.
"The person with the drug problem is not necessarily a teenager shooting up in...Tags: Addiction, Colleges and Universities, Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Arthritis
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Dr. Mallika Marshall - Everyday Health's Medical Director
![<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Everyday Health, the Internet’s most popular source of medical news and information for consumers, is pleased to welcome medical director Dr. Mallika Marshall, a board-certified expert in pediatrics and internal medicine, as well as respected medical journalist. </span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-01/199042980-06091914.jpg "<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;\">Everyday Health, the Internet’s most popular source of medical news and information for consumers, is pleased to welcome medical director Dr. Mallika Marshall, a board-certified expert in pediatrics and internal medicine, as well as respected medical journalist. </span>")
Everyday Health, the Internet’s most popular source of medical news and information for consumers, is pleased to welcome medical director Dr. Mallika Marshall, a board-certified expert in pediatrics and internal medicine, as well as respected...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Health, Journalism, Education, Human Interest
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