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Health risks of overweight St. Nick are over the rooftops

The doctor walks into an examining room to meet a new patient: A big, roundish guy with billowing white whiskers, rosy cheeks and an infectiously jolly manner, dressed in “all red, and wearing a strange hat.”
It is apparent the jolly old soul is woefully out of shape.

There’s no hiding from cancer

We were in the fifth grade when my friend David started feeling tired all the time. Instead of wanting to play ball, he wanted to sleep. He complained that his arms and legs hurt. David was dying of leukemia, a form of cancer.

Smith machine offers feel of free weights, safety of a spotter

“A little help here… anybody,” I muttered with a loaded bar on my chest that I thought I could lift but really couldn’t. Had I used the Smith machine on days I was lifting solo, I wouldn’t have worried because the machine is the spotter.

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Expecting too much of others can make holidays depressing

If you’re feeling blue during what should be one of the happiest, most perfect times of the year, it may be because you expect it to be one of the happiest, most perfect times of the year. And in reality, it’s, well, reality.
This is, in fact, prime time for depression, therapists say.

Alzheimer’s has way of stealing moments

When she gave her husband a huge bear hug and told him how much she loved him, a breath escaped from his lips. “Are you sure he’s still not with us?” Jean Georges recalls asking a nearby medical attendant through her tears. A little more than a half hour earlier, Leonard Georges, had died from Alzheimer’s disease.

Thigh high: A routine for stronger quads

I’ve never been a fan of skinny jeans because they don’t fit over my thighs. Not that skinny jeans ever fit over any but the thinnest thighs for that matter. I say down with skinny jeans and back to quadriceps that are big enough to function. 

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