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Send Your Excess Baggage Packing
Planning may have the most impact on a trip, but packing the right things is crucial, too. The same advice applies when you're embarking on a journey to better health.
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7 Tips for Healthy Meal Planning
Think healthy meal planning needs to be difficult and time consuming? Use even a few of these tips and enjoy the extra time you’ll discover as a result.
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I Get By with A Little Help from My Snacks
This SparkPeople member has lost 52 pounds and would like to the snacks that helped her along the way!
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Can You Be Both Overweight and Malnourished?
A significant number of us today are simultaneously under- and overnourished. How can that be? If you’re significantly overweight, surely you can’t be malnourished, right?
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New Mom Using Blog to Lose 100 Pounds*
Stacy, a 30-year-old new mom, is using SparkPeople to lose 100 pounds in a year. But she also has another tool: blogging. Find out how writing is helping her slim down.
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Founder of Turbo Jam Shares Her Top 5 Strength Exercises
Wonder how Chalene Johnson, founder of Turbo Jam®, fits strength training into her busy schedule? She shares her favorite time-saving, effective moves!
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The Dangers of Letting Kids Specialize in Just One Sport
This spring, we interviewed Dave Ellis, one of the country's foremost sports nutritionists. Now, he shares a hot topic in youth sports: the dangers of early specialization.
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The True Story Behind the Turbo Jam Workouts (Plus a Contest)
Wonder what it takes to be a fitness expert? Chalene Johnson, creator of the best-selling Turbo Jam workouts, shares her story with us--and she's giving away cool prizes!
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4 Ways to Tell if Dietary Supplements are Safe and Right for You
Do you really need dietary supplements? Do those weight-loss pills work? And how do you know what's safe? Our guest expert explains it all!
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The (Surprising) First Step to Getting Fit
NFL star Terrell Owens recently wrote the book "T.O.’s Finding Fitness." He shares tips on taking the first step to getting fit.
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Celebrity Trainer Shares His Top 3 Bun Shaping Moves
Trainer David Kirsch has sculpted some of the most famous bottoms in Hollywood. While their buns are rock-hard, Kirsch doesn't use a chisel. He uses simple moves like these.
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How to Disinfect Your Home -- Naturally
Author Ellen Sandback shared this guest blog post, an elegant and simple solution to killing bacteria in your home, from her book, Green Housekeeping .
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7 Tips for Controlling Your Hunger’s On and Off Switches
Authors of the best-selling book "You: On a Diet, "Michael F. Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., shared these tips on keeping your hunger in check.
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This Fitness Expert Lost 140 Pounds--and Has Kept It Off for 20 Years*
Fitness expert Debra Mazda once weighed more than 300 pounds. Now she has her own line of DVDs and a great mantra: "Fitness comes in all sizes!"
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A New Me in Old New Orleans
A SparkPeople member reflects on the cuisine that defines her hometown and how she clings to her gastronomic heritage while maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
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