Health and Fitness
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Encouragement kept her goingMay 09, 2011 12:00 am - Motivation. I've heard that word a lot over the last few months and as I've progressed through the Fittest Loser Challenge it has meant different things at different tim...
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Young soccer players need training in heading ballsMay 09, 2011 12:00 am - My husband and I were sitting on the sidelines, leisurely watching a spring soccer game. I was glad to be outdoors and doubly glad that the temperature had finally made ...
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Trying to develop new rare-disease treatmentsMay 08, 2011 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON — Every other week, 7-year-old twins Addison and Cassidy Hempel have an experimental medicine injected into their spines in hopes of battling a rare, fatal di...
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Trainers confident Fittest Losers will stay in shapeMay 08, 2011 11:00 pm - Motivation is the key to weight loss, and the Daily Herald's Fittest Losers had motivation in triplicate. The five Daily Herald readers who participated in the Fittest L...
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Never too old to ride a bike: one adult’s storyMay 07, 2011 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES — We pushed off from the Bicycle District in East Hollywood, a mob of two-wheelers that for a few hours on a recent Sunday ruled a 7½-mile stretch of car-fre...
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US on track for most measles cases in a decadeMay 04, 2011 11:00 pm - ATLANTA — The United States seems to be on track to have more measles cases than any year in more than a decade, with virtually all cases linked to other countries, inc...
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Arlington Hts. Senior Center promotes fitness dayMay 04, 2011 12:00 am - The Arlington Heights Senior Center will join an estimated 1,000 local events to celebrate the 18th annual National Senior Health & Fitness Day Wednesday, May 25. As an...
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Bands to raise funds in St. Charles for diabetes researchMay 03, 2011 2:00 am - Chicago band Ovrevolt is hosting a fundraiser from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday, May 6, at Real Time Sports Bar, 584 Randall Road in St. Charles. Ovrevolt (pronounced Over-vo...
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M&M's pack an important punchMay 02, 2011 2:00 am - As we face the final week of the Fittest Loser Challenge, the trainers are pulling out all the stops and utilizing a variety of tools to get the most possible poundage o...
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Walk and Roll event kicks off in ElginMay 02, 2011 1:59 am - The American Cancer Society invites you to the 2011 Walk and Roll Fox Valley event Saturday, May 7, in Festival Park in downtown Elgin. The funds raised through this on...