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ABC News: "No gym required: How you can get a great workout at home without spending a dime"

2009-11-03T21:31:00.000-08:00

This man is a Chief Master Sergeant in the USAF

2009-10-14T11:13:00.000-07:00

This man is a Chief Master Sergeant in the USAF

As high as you can go in enlisted ranks (E-9)

Wouldn't it be fitting if this went completely around the world!.....

John Gebhardt's wife, Mindy, said that this little girl's entire family was executed. The insurgents intended to execute the little girl also, and shot her in the head...but they failed to kill her. She was cared for in John's hospital and is healing up, but continues to cry and moan. The nurses said John is the only one who seems to calm her down, so John has spent the last four nights holding her while they both slept in that chair.. The girl is coming along with her healing.

He is a real Star of the war, and represents what America is trying to do.

This, my friends, is worth sharing. Go for it!! You'll never see things like this in the news. Please keep this going. Nothing will happen if you don't, but the American public needs to see pictures like this and needs to realize that what we're doing over there is making a difference. Even if it is just one little girl at a time.

James Gates U. S. Navy

Kids on the Run: The New Trend in Family-Friendly Fitness

2009-09-30T11:59:00.000-07:00

I was in my 20s before I discovered running, so I’m always amazed to see young children keeping up (or passing me by) when I’m out for a jog. When I was a kid, no one ran as a sport itself; rather, we played basketball, softball, or soccer. Running laps is what you did—reluctantly—to be better conditioned for the games.

But in the last decade, there’s been a boom in children running races that were once strictly for adults. Kids as young as 5 and 6 are running with school groups, and tweens and teens are entering 5- and 10-kilometer races—and even mini-triathlons—with their parents, running clubs, and even on their own. Continue article

Arrest in Annie Le's Murder!

2009-09-17T14:52:00.000-07:00

Arrest made in Yale grad student killing:
BREAKING NEWS: Yale employee Raymond Clark arrested and held on $3 million bond in connection with the murder of beautiful 24-year-old grad student and researcher Annie Le. Nancy Grace has the latest.

Nancy Grace's Rupa Mikkilineni reports on the timeline surrounding Yale student Annie Le's death.
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To Train Harder, Consider a Crowd

2009-09-17T07:55:00.000-07:00

IN STEP Training with quality partners may help runners produce strong performances on race day.

By GINA KOLATA

Published: September 16, 2009
DATHAN RITZENHEIN, one of America’s most talented runners, was in a slump. He had been a national star since high school but, starting several years ago, he felt as if he had reached a plateau. He wasn’t improving the way he’d hoped, and had been suffering stress fractures, repeatedly breaking a small bone in his left foot.

He and his coach tried to figure out what was wrong and seized upon the idea that perhaps it was the altitude training. He had been living and training in Boulder, Colo., hoping to take advantage of the thin air, which can increase the red blood cells that help deliver more oxygen to muscles. But maybe, Mr. Ritzenhein and his coach reasoned, training at Boulder’s elevation (about 5,430 feet) was putting too much stress on Mr. Ritzenhein’s body.

So Mr. Ritzenhein, his coach and his family moved to Eugene, Ore. (430 feet). “It didn’t work,” Mr. Ritzenhein said. He did not improve and, to his dismay, suffered another stress fracture. Read more

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I could really relate to this article. I have been working out with a large group since July 17th of this year, in an event that is being spon by NextFit in sandy Utah. Kathy smith is training this event, and the motivation and energy you feel is out of this world. Lets keep moving... Julie

Kanye West and Taylor Swift

2009-09-16T09:20:00.000-07:00

Why do so many people care so much about this story?

Thirty-six-plus hours after Kanye West made his spur-of-the-moment decision to run onstage at MTV’s Video Music Awards and interrupt Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for Best Female Video, the Internet isn’t close to done freaking out. I’ve seen this first-hand here on the Music Mix: All I have to do is mention the words “Kanye” and “Taylor” in a headline to watch the strongly-worded comments piling on West roll in. At this point, it seems like some members of the public are far more outraged than either Swift or West was at the awards ceremony in question. What’s going on here?
It’s worth taking a step back to review exactly what has happened since Sunday night.

Interview with Dr. Andrew Weil

2009-09-16T06:54:00.000-07:00

WHY OUR HEALTH MATTERS shows what has gone wrong with the American way of health to create the crisis in which our country is embroiled. Dr. Weil goes to the root of the problem, showing how medical schools fail to give future doctors the best education to care for patients, how insurance companies have destroyed our opportunity to get excellent care, and how pharmaceutical companies have come to rule our lives. He offers a realistic vision of how we can achieve optimum health through a heightened sense of personal responsibility and a new model of medicine. WHY OUR HEALTH MATTERS arrives at a critical moment for millions of people facing today’s health care obstacles as well as those that lie ahead. Read more

Weil : We need to get serious 18:18

Why our Health Matter's.

Utah County Company Combines Fitness And Healthcare

2009-09-15T20:44:00.000-07:00

Utah County Company Combines Fitness And Healthcare For...

Healthcare has been dominating news coverage for weeks now, and politicians still haven’t arrived a solution. Meanwhile, two brothers in Utah county have come with a business in response. For $60 a month, a family can work out and have access to basic healthcare.

“How come you got sent home from school today?” said Aaron Hartle as he started examining 8 year old Andrew Lopez. Lopez was exhibiting a fever and flu-like symptoms.

“That sounds good, I don’t hear pneumonia or bronchitis or anything like that,” said Hartle as he continued the exam. Go to article

2009-09-15T17:10:00.000-07:00

New fitness center offers health care clinic to members

2009-09-13T14:05:00.000-07:00

New fitness center offers health care clinic to members

September 11th, 2009 @ 5:15pm

By Ed Yeates

LINDON -- Amid the debate over health care reform, two Utah brothers have come up with their own innovation: They've combined a fitness center with a medical clinic--all for one inexpensive, flat monthly fee.

On Friday, we met Griffin and Gretchen Walker while they were getting their flu shots. Next door, Jesse and Lori Tschannen were having one of their kids treated for an ear infection. Both families have memberships to the Nucea Health and Fitness Club; they get this added benefit at no additional cost.

The Walkers have no health insurance.

"We just got married. I'm going to school, so we don't have a lot of money to spend other than on school. It's really a good option for us because it's pretty cheap monthly," Griffin said.

The cost is $35 per member or $50 per couple. There is a also a family rate of $60 a month, no matter how many kids you have.

The Tschannens take advantage of that family rate. They do have health insurance, but with a very high deductible.

"We really don't like to use our health insurance unless it's absolutely necessary," Jesse said. "And this provides another option for us to not necessarily have to fall back on that all the time, which is very expensive."

The clinic is staffed by family nurse practitioner Aaron Hartle. It's similar to a few others and some now located in grocery stores.

Hartle takes care of strep throats, infections, minor injuries and more. Read more

New 'American Idol' judge Ellen DeGeneres shares 'Divas' common ground with Paula Abdul Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2009/0

2009-09-11T07:14:00.000-07:00

Amidst the excitement of Wednesday night's announcement that Ellen DeGeneres would replace Paula Abdul as a judge on American Idol, one concern kept popping up: What insight will a comedian like DeGeneres be able to offer in a singing competition?

The question makes sense: after all, while DeGeneres will certainly have no problem trading barbs with Simon Cowell, her most prominent work in the recording industry is hosting the Grammy Awards in 1996 and 1997. Read more:

Why Residual Income Is Smart Money

2009-09-10T21:02:00.000-07:00

Why Residual Income Is Smart Money - And Ways You Can Earn It

Residual income (also called passive, or recurring income) is income that continues to be generated after the initial effort has been expended. Compare this to what most people focus on earning: linear income, which is "one-shot" compensation or payment in the form of a fee, wage, commission or salary.

Linear income is directly proportional to the number of hours invested in it (40 hrs. of pay for 40 hrs. of work), but one of the great advantages of residual income is that once things are set in motion, you continue making money from your initial efforts, while gaining time to devote to other things... such as generating more streams of residual income!

There was no exact moment, no pinpointed date of birth for network marketing. It was a steady evolution of early business models, rather, that formed the MLM way of business. It was a process that gradually eliminated middlemen, resellers and mark-ups.

Multi-level marketing (MLM) has never been so well-respected, so healthy, so attractive or so rewarding. It covers a wide array of companies, product ranges, reward plans and cultures. As the most powerful system of free enterprise, MLM continues to grow, attracting more and more people to it.

Is titanium dioxide safe to consume in vitamins and dietary supplements?

2009-09-10T06:26:00.000-07:00

(NaturalNews) Because I take a large number of nutritional supplements, I've become increasingly concerned over the years about supplement excipients, binders and fillers. One ingredient frequently used in vitamin manufacturing is titanium dioxide, a nanoparticle powder made of fine titanium bits. It's best known as an ingredient in sunscreen, but it's also used in thousands of cosmetic products as well as nutritional products.

Yep, if you take certain vitamins made by GNC or Centrum (as well as hundreds of other companies), you are eating titanium dioxide. And this is an ingredient for which no long-term safety testing on humans has ever been conducted. In fact, according to the Canadian Center for Occupational Health and Safety, titanium dioxide may be a human carcinogen. As explained on the CCOHS website: (http://www.ccohs.ca/headlines/text1...)

Titanium dioxide has recently been classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as an IARC Group 2B carcinogen ''possibly carcinogen to humans''... This evidence showed that high concentrations of pigment-grade (powdered) and ultrafine titanium dioxide dust caused respiratory tract cancer in rats exposed by inhalation and intratracheal instillation*.

CosmeticsDatabase.com lists titanium dioxide as being linked to cancer, allergies, immunotoxicity and organ system toxicity, among other problems. (http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/in...) Here's a list of some of the many thousands of cosmetic products containing titanium dioxide: http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/br
That list, by the way, includes products from many well-known brands. Leran more

NextFit Follow-Up Program Introduction

2009-09-09T10:20:00.000-07:00

NEVER UNTIL NOW...

Why Time Magazine Won’t Make You Thin, Either

2009-08-14T22:15:00.000-07:00

This article from Time Magazine has been making the rounds lately - several people have sent it to me, waiting to see my reaction. And while I pride myself on keeping my cool under pressure, I’ll admit, this one got me a little steamed.

The piece takes one idea that’s been common knowledge in the health and fitness industries for years - the fact that, when it comes to weight loss, diet is more important than exercise - and inflates it, using out-of-context quotes and biased information in an article that left me asking, “Are the good people at Time out of their minds?!” Read more