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Today’s Links: 7 Ways to Be a Good Vegetarian


Worn Out By Your Workout? – Try these 21 tricks and tips to make your exercise routine more fun. (Women’s Health)

A Little Help From My Friends – Participating in community service may help alcoholics and addicts stay clean and sober. (ScienceDaily)

No Meat Allowed – 7 paths to becoming a relatively successful vegetarian. (EcoSalon) … More »

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Today’s Links: 7 Ways to Be a Good Vegetarian

Morning Links: Why Your New Year’s Resolutions Won’t Work


Enjoy Your Java – Scientists now know why coffee (regular, not decaf) may prevent type 2 diabetes. (Science Daily)

Do Booze and Meds Mix? – The truth about drinking alcohol while on medications like antibiotics. (Health)

Pressure’s Off – Why those well-meaning New Year’s Resolutions simply won’t work in the long run. (Lifehacker) … More »

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Morning Links: Why Your New Year’s Resolutions Won’t Work

Obesity and STD Rates Rising In American Women


Check out this post about a recent women’s health study on That’s Fit.

While fewer American women are smoking and dying from heart disease and stroke, there have been disturbing setbacks in women’s health in the U.S. over the last decade.

The newly released 2010 edition of Making the Grade on Women’s Health: a National and State-by-State Report Card, developed by the National Women’s Law Center and the Oregon Health & Science University, showed that more women are suffering from obesity, high blood pressure and sexually transmitted diseases. In addition, more women are engaging in riskier behaviors, like binge drinking and failing to obtain regular health screenings for conditions like cervical cancer. … More »

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Obesity and STD Rates Rising In American Women

5 Lazy Ways to Be Healthier Right Now (Sleep! Gossip! Drink Wine!)


In a world where it seems like almost everything has the potential to be bad for us, staying healthy can often feel like a full-time job. Luckily, a lot of lazy things you already do during a normal day may have some surprisingly awesome health benefits. Here are five pleasant surprises:

7:30 a.m.: Sleep Through Your Alarm

So you didn’t hear your alarm and woke up a full 47 minutes after it went off. Here’s some good news: You’ll be more refreshed than someone who pressed the snooze button. In fact, whoever came up with the old “you snooze, you lose” saying must have been a reformed snooze-button addict, because it is scarily spot-on. When you hit “snooze,” you lose out on quality sleep – which, according to sleep researchers, is just as important as quantity. Hitting “snooze” every seven to nine minutes means that the sleep you’re getting isn’t providing much benefit, because it’s not enough time to get in and out of recharging REM sleep. So staying in bed for that extra hour doesn’t help refresh you. At all. … More »

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5 Lazy Ways to Be Healthier Right Now (Sleep! Gossip! Drink Wine!)