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A typical day at Green Mountain at Fox Run

It’s been a great week at Green Mountain at Fox Run! If you have not read my earlier posts, please catch yourself up! I wanted to describe what a typical day is like here… so here it goes. You wake up and get ready for the day – workout clothes is ...more

New accessories and clothes may help fitness efforts

What if you could improve your athleticism or physique just by wearing an accessory or an article of clothing? Thanks to a new crop of performance wear products, you actually may be able to do so. For the most part, the items sound too good to be true ...more

New 5-Day Emergency Contraceptive Approved By FDA

Fantastic News : The FDA has now approved a "morning" after pill, more like the "week after" pill, hat can be taken to prevent pregnancy up to five days following unprotected sex.  conservative heads explode  I don't have anything more to say on the s...more

Food for Fitness: Summer BBQ

Summer time is close to drawing to an end, nevertheless, many are still firing up the grill and enjoying social time out of doors.Growing up in the south, grilling out has been a summer tradition in my family for every event that falls within the warm mon...more

America's Next Top Model Contestant Over 6 Feet Tall and Weighs Less Than 100 Lbs.

Wow. This isn't right: she's 6'2 , weighs less than 100 pounds, and shows up to audition for Tyra Banks' ANTM in a corset. Um...wat? Time for this show, which has tried so hard in recent season to break color and beauty norms in the fashion industry (...more

Affordable Care Act Helps Women Except That...

This is according to a story linked on DailyKos.com , via a Web MD story on a new Commonwealth Fund Study. (PDF) About 7.3 million women aged 19 to 64 were turned down when they tried to buy an insurance plan, charged a higher rate than men, or had a ...more

The facts about cervical cancer

Perhaps one of the most well known preventive cancer treatments it the HPV vaccine, Gardasil, which is one hundred percent effective in precluding the development of cervical cancers since it’s FDA approval in 2006. Auspiciously, doctors are indicating...more

Spotlight on Shoshanna: Designer celebrating a woman’s life through style

There are not many items that are universal to every woman. Because we come in all different shapes, sizes and backgrounds, it’s difficult to pinpoint one distinct style or look to compliment every lady. However, some items are absolutely necessary for...more

WB, MAC team on Wonder Woman makeup

In a nod to girl power, MAC Cosmetics announced that the company is partnering with DC Comics’ Wonder Woman to create a limited edition color cosmetics collection featuring the iconic superhero. Set for a spring 2011 launch at all MAC locations worldwi...more

SPiN opens in Hollywood

Epic Hollywood nights await you. The wildly famous NYC nightspot SPiN is to town. SPiN Hollywood at Mondrian features DJs, table tennis and owner/promoter Susan Sarandon. First, some background: last year,  a band of nightlife pioneers (one being Susan...more

The latest in cycling trends

According to Trend Central, the bike community is continuing to innovate and thrive.  Here are some of the latest happenings in the cycling world. Rolling Orange: They may not be world champions of soccer, but the Dutch are still an authority on bikes...more

Chic Q&A with Cady: Keeping it Simple

This past week, after a flurried rush of getting ready for an Independence Day party I was already late for, I realized that I had shoved through lace dresses, high-waisted satin shorts, and a seersucker sundress only to end up keeping it simple- a v-neck...more

Back in Black to battle breast cancer

When you think about southern California, Los Angeles is probably first in mind. Along with the city of Angels you may think of Disneyland, the Salton Sea in Imperial Valley, The Oceanside Pier, the summits of the San Gabriel Mountains, the Colorado and M...more

Food for Fitness: Truth about Truvia

Mary Poppins sang about how a spoonful of sugar would help the medicine go down, however, she did not sing the facts about the granulated ingredient.Sugar, also known as sucrose, is the most common of sugars and is used to sweeten most things found in res...more

Be bronzed, be beautiful: and save $10, too!

Calling all chicks! Tired of constantly making those weekly trips to take care of your waxing, tanning and hair removal needs? Now is the perfect time for you to be as bronzed and bare as possible as summer starts to heat up and ChickSpeak has the perfec...more

Food for Fitness: Cool Down with a Low-Fat Raspberry Smoothie

Sweet summertime is bursting with warm nights, bright flavors, and exciting colors. I don’t know about you, but when the weather is hot, I do not like a heavy meal to eat. Rather, I enjoy a light appetizer with a punch of gusto.I love the symphonic arom...more

Greet the sun with Pick-Me-Up Yoga

The feeling of waking up more tired than you were previous to falling asleep is a complete drag. This can be contributed to by a number of different things. Your mattress, what time of month it is, and one drink too many the night prior can all cause you...more

Escape in Exercise

“Take it out on the pavement.”My mother has always shared these simple words of advice with me throughout my life, guiding me on running routes through my town where I mulled over my most complex thoughts and frustrations. During adolescence, while p...more

Food for Fitness: Breakfast Omelet

Breakfast has always been my favorite meal of the day, simply because breakfast foods are the best in flavor and variety in my opinion.You probably roll your eyes when you hear “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day”  because you have heard...more

How to Love the Skin You’re In

I can still remember the day when I looked in the mirror and told myself if I wasn’t happy with the way I looked. I’d beaten myself up several times before but never as I had done on that day. I poked here, squeezed there and scrutinized everywhere. I...more

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