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The typical Canadian is overweight or obese and unfit. Gerry Haracsi, Julie Isaac and Sue Salsbury are typical Canadians. They’re also atypical, in that they’re doing something about it. The three are the public finalists of the Edmonton Journal & YMCA Health Club Challenge who are trying to make a lifestyle change that will keep them fit and healthy for the rest of their lives.
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Meet the three Edmonton Journal & YMCA Health Club Challenge contestants
Here they are: Gerry Haracsi, Julie Isaac and Sue Salsbury. Meet our three Edmonton Journal & YMCA Health...
At Home fitness drive kicks off
Mark Sunday, Jan. 16 on your calendar and make a date to become a fitter, healthier, happier you this...
Fat in restaurant chain food fails to meet self-declared limits
McDonald's advertised the chicken fajita as containing 2.5 grams of saturated fat but, on at least one...
Health trends for 2011
Jazzercise, step aerobics, and the idea that fat makes us fat have all come and gone, though Jane Fonda...
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Health & Fitness blog
Chris Zdeb blogs The Journal Health club and all things health and fitness related.
Health Club at Home Challenge
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Until vegetables dominate meal plates, weight loss will be slow
Eat your vegetables! We've all heard this before. Yet we're still not getting enough. In an Ipsos Reid poll of some 2,000 Canadians conducted in the summer of 2009, 92 per cent of men and 90 per cent of women were not eating the seven to 10 daily recommended...
Make it a habit: Walk, dance, join a boot camp or do yoga for fitness and health
Trends come and fads go, not least in the world of fitness. Remember Jack Lalanne’s Glamour Stretcher and Suzanne Somers’ ThighMaster? Or TV’s 20-Minute Workout and Sweatin’ to the Oldies?
Nutrition
Coconut oil revisited
Long vilified for its heavy saturated fat content, coconut oil seems to be staging a comeback.
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Boomers slow the aging process — and get buff
When Olga Jean McDermott started working out a decade ago, she had already spent years doing yoga, playing tennis and swimming. But as she passed her 50th birthday, McDermott realized that the time had come to begin an exercise program that would focus...
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Foiling the freshman 15 weight gain
Their grades may catapult them into the top universities, but many first-year college students have to learn their fitness ABCs to avoid the dreaded weight gain known as the freshman 15.
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Video: Parkour Gym
Susan Hay visits a gym that practices Parkour, a form of acrobatics that helps you jump from buildings, climb walls and leap over obstacles.
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Age-appropriate exercises gain ground in 2011
Health clubs, aware that the fitness needs of boomers, people in their 30s and 40s and youths differ, will be offering more age-appropriate workouts in the new year.
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Gyms offer circus spins, lovelorn lunges
How can you mend a broken heart? Try a squat. Vying for new memberships in 2011, fitness centers, gyms and studios are offering everything from circus stunts to breakup advice.
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Fitness resolutions to accentuate the positive
Whether galvanized by that shiny new treadmill under the tree, the trial gym membership in your Christmas stocking, or those five pounds you've packed on over the holidays, you're determined to get fit in 2011.
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