HEALTH/FITNESS
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Sweat to Something New: Kettlebells
From jazzercise to Zumba, a plethora of newfangled exercise regimens hit the market almost continuously. When my mom, a personal trainer, invited me to hit the gym with her to test out a new program she was offering to her clients, I didn’t think anythi...more
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Kim Kardashian’s sweet-smelling fight against breast cancer
Kim Kardashian, one of the most glamorous and downright gorgeous women in Hollywood, has taken up arms in the fight against breast cancer. In celebration of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Kim has turned to her closest and most trusted support group - her ...more
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A Chick’s Guide to Homeopathy
Homeopathy, also known as homeopathic medicine, is the alternative practice of using natural remedies to heal, or thwart ailments as serious as hepatitis or depression, to ailments as minor as eczema or headaches.
German physician Samuel Hahnemann (1755-...more
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Wheel Action: May is National Bike Month
Despite what recent chilly temperatures (at least in LA) may be telling us, spring really is on its way! This is the start of National Bike Month so we thought we’d bring you some new bikes and cycling accessories to get you and your family ready ...more
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A Chick’s Guide to Handling Stressful Situations
Stress. You can live with it, you can’t live without it.
Believe it or not, stress actually has positive effects that are essential to your health and safety. It allows you to react with a flight or fight response whenever harmful situations are presen...more
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A Chick’s Guide to Sunless Tanning
A sun-touched glow seems to make skin more attractive, warmer, and look more alive. Some people go to great lengths and expense to achieve this summer accessory. However, many people do not realize the harmful effects of tanning in a salon and in an outsi...more
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Simple Ways to Smooth Away Stress
Stress: we’ve all been there, and we probably haven’t left yet.
We always deal with it, but how well do we actually combat it? We can’t really help the paper we have due in a few hours that has yet to be begun, the presentation at work that our job...more
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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
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Best Yoga & Yoga-Inspired Products
According to the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association, an estimated 13.4 Americans practice yoga or another mind body exercise on a regular basis.
That’s a lot of people.
And if you head into any fitness or exercise goods shop, it rings true. Ther...more
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Update on the latest with Breast Cancer Research
According to the National Cancer Institute, breast cancer is the leading cancer death in women between the ages of 15 and 54 years old.
Fortunately, medical advances and progressive treatments have made it possible for ninety six percent of women diagnos...more
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Food for Fitness: The tantalizing Tastes of Tempeh
I have considered life without meat. I have friends who are vegetarian some even that are vegan, and I have eaten their kinds of food with them and enjoyed it greatly sometimes.
However, I just do not think that I could live without consuming a thick, ju...more
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From the Editor’s Desk: Fight Panic Attacks
The room suddenly starts to spin, your stomach hits the floor, and your heart is racing at an accelerated pace. You can’t focus your eyes and your breathing becomes heavy and uncomfortable.
You start to believe you won’t be able to inhale deeply agai...more
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