Prematurity Awareness Month Highlights Pregnancy Health
The March of Dimes urges education for healthier pregnancies during Prematurity Awareness Month. Key steps include taking 400 micrograms of folic acid daily, maintaining a healthy weight, exercising, and avoiding drugs and smoking to support full term birth and fetal brain and spinal cord development.
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Super-size meals not a bargain says RealAge calculator
RealAge.com estimates the extra 67 cents for soda and fries leads to costs over seven dollars due to added fat and calories. The extra intake can raise future spending on food gas and medical care for the overgrown you.
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Early pill use linked to higher breast cancer risk study says
A Mayo Clinic Proceedings study of 34 analyses with about 34 000 premenopausal breast cancer cases since 1980 finds women who used oral contraceptives have 19 percent higher risk than nonusers. Risk higher for use before first birth and with four plus years before pregnancy.
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Pajama GAMES How to work out without leaving home
A reader asks for a short morning routine that requires no shoes or leaving the living room. Michael Seril, named trainer of the year, offers a 20 to 30 minute whole body workout for three days weekly using a light medicine ball or bodyweight, starting with a warm up and including five exercises and a cool down.
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Washington Post
North Pole
Michael Seril
Whittier
Calif
National Strength and Conditioning Association
Seril
Power squat with ball roll and torso lifts workout
Instructions describe a full body kettlebell like routine using a medicine ball. Start with chest hold squat keeping abs engaged and back straight then rise while lifting the ball overhead Seril’s version adds overhead lift to chest as you rise. Include side planks and hip raises with timed holds and rest periods.
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Lean Plate Club Holiday Challenge promotes energy density diet
The Lean Plate Club explains energy density as foods with air fiber and water helping fullness on fewer calories. The holiday challenge aims to maintain weight over six weeks, with tips like two cups of fruit and two and a half cups of vegetables daily and walking up to 10 minutes daily.
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Obesity
Jamy Ard
University of Alabama-Birmingham
Ard
Barbara Rolls
Penn State University
Lean Plate Club
National Institutes of Health
U.S
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