Health and Fitness
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A beginner's guide: How to safely start a high-intensity workoutJan 12, 2015 4:45 am - It's January and you're ready to live up to your New Year's resolution to be healthy and exercise more. But you just don't want to do walking and stretching. You are gea...
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Outdoor winter workouts: The colder the better?Jan 12, 2015 4:45 am - At the height of last year's polar vortex, Megan Jones watched the temperature drop “with a strange glee,” she says. The bone-chilling weather brought a welcome challen...
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Arlington Hts. offers reduced price cholesterol screeningsJan 12, 2015 12:01 am - To commemorate National Heart Awareness Month, the village of Arlington Heights is offering cholesterol screenings at a reduced cost on Jan. 21, Feb. 11 and Feb. 14. To...
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West Chicago continues healthy living pushJan 12, 2015 12:01 am - As West Chicago and its community partners research and develop a Healthy West Chicago Action Plan, the community is discovering the power of working together. Healthy W...
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New fitness center opens on Randall in AlgonquinJan 11, 2015 10:00 pm - Right in the midst of the holiday season, when all of the best goodies and temptations of the year come out, a new fitness center opened along the Randall Road corridor....
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The ability to lose weight is in your controlJan 11, 2015 6:00 am - The New Year is here and for many it brings with it a fresh outlook. The majority of people start the year with a resolution, with the most popular being to lose weight....
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Trying for test-tube baby? Risks to mom are rare, study saysJan 11, 2015 6:00 am - CHICAGO — Complications are uncommon for women undergoing test-tube fertility procedures: A new 12-year U.S. study shows the most frequent involve drugs used to stimulat...
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Researchers hope a whale's genes may help reverse human agingJan 11, 2015 6:00 am - Bowhead whales are most likely the longest-living mammals on the planet. There's evidence (some of it in the form of Victorian-era harpoons embedded in blubber) that the...
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5 resolutions for people who spend too much time onlineJan 10, 2015 6:00 am - We are entering the month of Facebook deletions, of "lifehacks," of "digital detoxes" designed to cure whatever social-media hangover you suffer from the year before. Pe...
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Study sees corollary between fast food, test scoresJan 10, 2015 6:00 am - Fast-food consumption isn't merely connected to increases in pants size — it's also tied to significant decreases in test scores among schoolchildren, according to a new...