Kelly Mills
Berkeley, California - http://fitnessfixation.com
Kelly Mills is a writer, editor, runner, shopping addict, personal trainer, mother, and more, which is why she is so damn tired.
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Kelly Mills
Berkeley, California - http://fitnessfixation.com
Kelly Mills is a writer, editor, runner, shopping addict, personal trainer, mother, and more, which is why she is so damn tired.
We Love To Gawk At Fit Celebs Weekly Roundup
One of the reasons I adore Jamie Lee Curtis forever and ever is that she let herself be photographed pre-makeup. That kind of honesty about what goes into maintaining a celebrity look is very rare. So for this week's roundup, let's look at how the celebs manage to look the way they do. We Love To Gawk At Fit Celebs Weekly Roundup
Hopefully we all know celebrities don't represent reality as the rest of us know it. The famous people we see have been made up, personal trained, coiffed, dressed, and soft-lit into the closest they can come to perfection, and of course they represent a very small and genetically blessed segment of the population. So sometimes it's necessary to do a little reality check, just to remind ourselves that what we see isn't what we are supposed to be.We Love To Gawk At Fit Celebs Weekly Roundup
In the world of celebrity fitness, there's a few gems and a whole lot of stuff that's just plain funny. Let's take a gander at the lifestyles of the rich and famous and see what we love, and what just makes us fall down on the floor in hysterical laughter. We Love To Gawk At Fit Celebs Weekly Roundup
We all know fitness doesn't come effortlessly to anyone. There's hard work and consistency involved in being in shape. Hence the sweatiness. And celebrities are no exception...well, except for the ones who get their bods through a little plastic surgery, but hardly any of them do that, right? Right? This week's celebrity gawking focuses on the fact that, well, it isn't easy. Celebrities and Entertainment, Celebs & Entertainment, Motivation
I'm a fan of the 5 Resolutions blog, started by model and bulimia awareness spokesperson Magali Amadei and writer and eating disorder expert Claire Mysko. They feature a nice round-up of the summer's plastic surgery news, including the rise of the $6,000 eyelash transplant and a study showing that British women are more likely to get plastic surgery to make their partners happy than American women. But my favorite 'ugh" story? Let's look at the ease with which you can get your lines Botoxed versus your wait for a skin cancer screening. "A typical wait for a Botox treatment is just eight days. But if you need a doc to examine a mole, you'll have to wait 26." Nice. Fitness, Celebs & Entertainment
We generally think of competitive athletes as super-duper healthy, but doctors at a heart conference pointed out that heart problems like arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat) actually pose a greater risk to those who go for gold. Athletes may not know they have a heart issue, and adrenaline produced during exercise can overstimulate the heart. However, screening all athletes for these kinds of problems could reduce the rate of death. Right now Italy is the only country that mandates this kind of screening for its pros. Fitness, Motivation, Nutrition & Supplements
I'm big on activities that kill two birds with one workout. And one of my life goals is to actually have moments of being "fun mom," so I like to look for ways to combine exercise with playtime. Here's my five best kid-exercises that require no equipment except a hyped up small child or two.Diet & Weight Loss, Celebs & Entertainment, Alternative & Green Health, Nutrition & Supplements
With new studies appearing daily on the effects of this diet or that food, it gets hard to know exactly what constitutes a healthy diet. This month's Scientific American has an excellent article by Marion Nestle, renowned nutrition professor and author of What to Eat. Her answer to the good eating dilemma is pretty straightforward: "eat less, move more, eat a largely plant-based diet, and avoid eating too much junk food," and as she says, we've known this for a while now. But she also includes a discussion of how studies of single nutrients and the influence of the food industry on research and consumer behavior have muddied the waters considerably. Diet & Weight Loss, Fitness, Celebs & Entertainment, Alternative & Green Health
It might not be a newsflash that broccoli is, well, healthy, but the more we learn about the magical little vegetable, the more it seems you should eat the stuff by the truckload. Aside from being all low-cal and vegetable-y, broccoli has 3,3'-diindolylmethane (DIM), a chemical produced when broccoli (and kale and cabbage) are chewed up and digested. DIM has been shown to stop the growth of cancer cells in animal studies. But researchers at the University of California at Berkeley also found that DIM boosts the immune response in mice. Better immune response means the body can better fight infections and cancers.
I hear this often from women: "I want to weight train, but I'm nervous about bulking up." I'm here to tell you, honey, the chances are slim that you'll get big rippling muscles unless you also do lots of steroids. Women just don't have the testosterone for it. In fact, you might need to worry about whether you are lifting enough. A study of college students at Ohio State University showed that women, when left to their own strength training devices, typically chose weights at 50 percent of their max capacity, which isn't even close to the 75 percent you should be pumping. And women who were given a regimen using weights at 75 percent reported that the program was too hard. So while guys in the gym might be adding pounds to the bicep curl, many women are probably just, well, barely making it worth their while. 

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