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Workout warning: Muscle mags may be depressing

If you read muscle magazines while working out your own muscles, you may want to rethink your routine.

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Best fuel for your workout

Fit List personal trainer Kathy Kaehler suggests food choices for before and after exercise.

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Vibrating your bod may do muscles, bones good

Standing on a vibrating platform may sound like an odd way to pass the time, but a new research review suggests it may do the muscles and bones of older people some good.

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The good enough guide to health

No time to eat right or exercise? Relax. Even mini moves add up to a huge disease-fighting payoff.

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Battle bone disease with weight training

What are the best exercises to fight osteoporosis?  Plus, a handy excuse to skip the gym: Some people are actually allergic to exercise.  Smart Fitness answers your workout queries.

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Exercise may help prevent substance abuse

Sure, exercise is good for your waistline, your heart, your bones — but might it also help prevent addiction to drugs or alcohol?

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Pumping up your strength routine

The best way to strength train is one of most enduring controversies in fitness.

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Opinion: 'Blade Runner' ruling subverts nature of sport

Should anyone who must run on prosthetic legs be allowed to compete in the Olympics or other sporting events? Bioethcist Art Caplan, Ph.D,  weighs in.

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'Wii Fit' will definitely get you moving

Acting like a cross between a personal trainer and a video game, "Wii Fit" offers up more than 40 different exercises and activities that are supposed to help those who play it not only get into shape but actually have fun while getting into shape.

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Government to unveil fitness test for adults

If you didn't get a Presidential Physical Fitness Award in school, the government is giving you another chance to prove you're in shape.

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