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STANDING ABDUCTOR
Read More: STANDING ABDUCTORThe Panatta Standing Abductor (1FW099) is a specific machine for training the hip abductor muscles (mainly the gluteus Medius and gluteus Minimus, tensor fasciae latae) and gluteus Maximus. The machine is equipped with an anodised steel CAM that returns a decreasing resistance curve during the concentric phase of the movement, in accordance with the force expressed by…
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Experience The Audacious Charm Of ‘Rose Passion’ by Jimmy Choo
Read More: Experience The Audacious Charm Of ‘Rose Passion’ by Jimmy ChooGlobal luxury house Jimmy Choo has unveiled the latest addition to its fragrance repertoire, Rose Passion. A beautifully rich scent evocative of the glamour, confidence and audacious sense of playfulness inherent to the brand, this new fragrance captures the essence of Jimmy Choo. The inspiration Inspired by the eternal allure of the French Riviera –…
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Maureen Blanquisco
Read More: Maureen BlanquiscoInterview by Ron Harris As the greatest Bikini competitor in the world, I think it’s time people learned more about you. Iknow you were born in the Philippines. Were you athletic as a kid growing up? I was very athletic. I attended a private elementary school named Dominican College, and I swam competitively there. A…
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Behind the Brand: MuscleTech
Read More: Behind the Brand: MuscleTechWe are the only company in sports nutrition history to have the best-selling protein power, diet pill and creatine formulas all at the same time.’ -Scott Welch, Associate Director Truly Legendary. Anyone who has been part of or followed the bodybuilding and fitness industry for any length of time is quite familiar with MuscleTech, and…
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Best Sports Bras of 2023
Read More: Best Sports Bras of 2023Whether yours are more akin to watermelon or naartjies, breasts need proper support during any kind of exercise. But the type of bra you need varies according to your breast size and exercise intensity. We’ve rounded some of our favourite offerings on the market right now. Asics Women’s Accelerate Bra Running R499 on Takealot Constructed…
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Finally, A Medical Aid Is Offering DNA Tests To All Members
Read More: Finally, A Medical Aid Is Offering DNA Tests To All MembersIn South Africa, having a medical aid is a must. The cover is essential, since being sick is costly and most South Africans can’t afford access to medication without it. But the healthcare industry is largely reactive, acting when there is a disease or disability that needs to be treated, instead of being preventative, acting…
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The Softest Fabric For Your Toughest Workouts
Read More: The Softest Fabric For Your Toughest WorkoutsWith workout gear acceptable and comfortable in all day activities way beyond the gym, it’s become a focus of active people to seek out the best gear that feels as good after your exertions as it does while working up a sweat. Like Suede On Your Skin The secret to success in this crossover of…
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Summer Ready With Real, Sparkling Spritzer Made From Wine
Read More: Summer Ready With Real, Sparkling Spritzer Made From WineSouth Africa is, and always has been filled with inspirational women. Bernini is all about a world where women work together to uplift each other, women who, like the only real sparkling spritzer made from wine, have a natural sophistication and authenticity. With the participation of such an eager group of women, Bernini is ecstatic…
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Getting A Mammogram: What To Know, Even If You’re Young
Read More: Getting A Mammogram: What To Know, Even If You’re YoungWhen thinking about getting a mammogram, you might sit on either side of the fence. You could be freaking out about your now-supple breast tissue and wondering if that firmness might be a lump (what does a bunch of grapes feel like, anyway?) or you could be completely blasé and assume that you’ll never have…
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Why The HUAWEI Watch GT 3 Pro Is The Best Smartwatch Of 2022
Read More: Why The HUAWEI Watch GT 3 Pro Is The Best Smartwatch Of 2022The EISA Best Smartwatch Product prize marks the HUAWEI WATCH GT 3 Pro a frontrunner. And now, you can get your hands on this winner in SA. Here’s why we love it. 1/ It’s Collecting All The Awards RN The new HUAWEI WATCH GT 3 Pro, which is now available for sale in SA (yay!),…
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Sculpting the Perfect Butt
Read More: Sculpting the Perfect ButtBy Shoshana Pritzker Glutes give us a cushion when we’re seated and they make a statement as we walk away. And whether you need to firm up or build up your booty, David Kirsch, celebrity trainer and author of the best-selling Butt Book, is the man who knows how to get the job done. “I…
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72-Hour Metabolic Booster Workout
Read More: 72-Hour Metabolic Booster WorkoutAlmost anyone can lose weight and have a better body if she is willing to devote the effort. Intense weight training will help. Women work out for a variety of reasons, including a desire to minimize fat and look fit, lean and toned; be healthier, live longer, have more energy and feel better every day.…
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SHIELD Immunity+
Read More: SHIELD Immunity+With SHIELD Immunity+ you can stay huge, stay healthy and never lose your gains! IS YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM AS STRONG AS YOU ARE? Even a minor deficiency can derail your immune system and let’s face it, viruses, bacteria and pathogens can be anywhere and everywhere! Making real gains in size and strength simply aren’t possible…
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Take the Low-Carb Diet Quiz
Read More: Take the Low-Carb Diet QuizWhat happens when you cut carbs to lose weight? Test yourself, or test your friends, to find out how much you know about this popular weight-loss trend. Answers follow the questions. 1. True or False. The idea of cutting carbs to lose weight originated with Dr. Robert Atkins. 2. True or False. Low-carb/high-protein diets suppress…
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Revive MD: Experience the Difference of Better Health
Read More: Revive MD: Experience the Difference of Better HealthRevive MD is a health-based wellness company that dares to be different. While some new companies launch their brand with sports nutrition products like pre-workouts, protein powder, bars or RTD shakes, Revive MD has decided to focus on the most important component of overall health – our internal organs and hormone levels. Revive MD is…
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Overactive Bladder
Read More: Overactive BladderOverview Have you ever planned your morning errands around when and where you could find a bathroom? Do you often leak urine as you rush to unlock your front door so you can make it to the toilet in time? Are you waking up a few times every night because you feel an urgent need…
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The Double Whammy for Black Women and Fibroids
Read More: The Double Whammy for Black Women and FibroidsDuring the months Tanika Gray Valbrun spent recovering from a myomectomy to remove 27 fibroids from her uterus, she began wondering why so little public awareness or acknowledgment existed about a condition 20%-80% of women experience by age 50. Fibroids — noncancerous growths of the uterus, called leiomyomas or myomas — emerge during the reproductive…
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What Can You Do When Constipation Won’t Go Away?
Read More: What Can You Do When Constipation Won’t Go Away?This article was created by Takeda in coordination with HealthyWomen. We’ve all suffered with constipation from time to time, but if you’ve been living with constipation symptoms that won’t go away, you’re not alone. Like many others, you may have brought your concerns to your health care provider, and even tried treatments – but if…
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Don’t Lose Hope in Your Battle With Migraine
Read More: Don’t Lose Hope in Your Battle With MigraineBy Sharol Klise Like many people with migraine, I have lived a long time hoping to find relief. My struggle with migraine began in my early teens and got worse during my college years. When the attacks came, they crippled me with excruciating headaches and severe nausea. Navigating college life was extremely challenging. I was…
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How I Lost 100 Pounds and Found My Inner Athlete in My 50s
Read More: How I Lost 100 Pounds and Found My Inner Athlete in My 50sBy Jamie Gold I don’t remember the exact date, but I remember the time and place painfully well. I was sitting in my home office, working on a kitchen design plan. It was a weekday afternoon, late spring 2009. The Great Recession had killed my showroom job, but I was still getting some independent design…
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Exclusive Interview with Fran Drescher
Read More: Exclusive Interview with Fran DrescherBy Susan L. Hornik At 62, Fran Drescher is as vibrant and energetic as ever. Between adapting her popular 1990s sitcom, “The Nanny” for Broadway and running the nonprofit organization Cancer Schmancer, the veteran comedian has her hands full. The much-loved actress is especially grateful for her good health, having been diagnosed with uterine cancer…
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Why Are You Tossing and Turning at Night?
Read More: Why Are You Tossing and Turning at Night?There’s a famous story in my family of my grandmother and I sleeping together when I was about five, and her waking up with my feet in her face. My grandmother, who was very proper, used to laugh when she told people about my notorious tossing and turning, and the various positions I’d end up…
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Are Women With Chronic Conditions Able to Access Care During COVID-19 Pandemic?
Read More: Are Women With Chronic Conditions Able to Access Care During COVID-19 Pandemic?The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how women access health care, as many in-person visits have been delayed or replaced with telehealth. Moving health care appointments online has been one necessary example of slowing the spread of COVID-19, but it has presented challenges for women living with chronic conditions. HealthyWomen wanted to better understand the experiences…
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Accessing Competent Health Care as a Trans Woman
Read More: Accessing Competent Health Care as a Trans WomanBy Aurelie Richards I’m prompted to have conversations every day that aren’t the conversations I choose. That’s truer now that I live abroad. Last year, I left the U.S. for Berlin and a new life, one hard won after my swift and costly gender transition. When I landed, the Customs agent scanned my passport, which…
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HealthyWomen’s 2020 Policy Survey Shows That Knowledge Is Power
Read More: HealthyWomen’s 2020 Policy Survey Shows That Knowledge Is PowerJacinda Townsend’s gynecologist told her that having a hysterectomy wouldn’t jump start menopause because she was only having her uterus, and not her ovaries, removed. To the contrary, for the two and a half years after the surgery, Townsend, then in her mid-40s, suffered from insomnia, weight loss and anxiety so crippling she sought help…
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Statement From Healthywomen CEO on the Trump Administration’s Request to Overturn the Affordable Care Act
Read More: Statement From Healthywomen CEO on the Trump Administration’s Request to Overturn the Affordable Care ActHealthyWomen is disappointed that the Trump Administration is supporting abolishing the Affordable Care Act in their brief to the Supreme Court. That Federal law has been in effect now for more than six years, and has provided access to insurance to millions of Americans, many of whom are women who otherwise would be without health…
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How Good Is Your Sexual Fitness?
Read More: How Good Is Your Sexual Fitness?Sex and fitness go together like, well, sex and fitness! Test your sexual know-how with 10 true-or-false questions taken from our past online articles. True or False: An unlikely team of scientists and porn actresses banded together with a variety of vibrators to find the exact location of the fabled G-spot. After months of…
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Fearing the Deadly Combo of COVID-19 and Cancer
Read More: Fearing the Deadly Combo of COVID-19 and CancerBy Hannah Norman, Kaiser Health News Three Tuesdays each month, Katherine O’Brien straps on her face mask and journeys about half an hour by Metra rail to Northwestern University’s Lurie Cancer Center. What were once packed train cars rolling into Chicago are now eerily empty, as those usually commuting to towering skyscrapers weather the pandemic…
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Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable
Read More: Alzheimer’s Isn’t InevitableThe other night, I watched a two-hour interview with the actress Olivia de Havilland, in which she swooned when recalling meeting the swashbuckling Errol Flynn in 1934. She also described how Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable played the game Battleship between scenes on the set of Gone With The Wind in 1939. The interview was…
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5 Things You Should Do Right Now to Fight the Rising Number of COVID-19 Cases
Read More: 5 Things You Should Do Right Now to Fight the Rising Number of COVID-19 CasesBy Kacey Ernst, University of Arizona and Paulina Columbo, University of Arizona The increase of COVID-19 cases across the country calls for quick action. Sure, you and your family are exhausted from distancing, you miss your loved ones and you want to get back to your support groups or church. But the coronavirus, which…
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Living in The Cave
Read More: Living in The CaveThe phone rings. I don’t want to answer but do because it’s Anne Bonnyman. Her recent homily honoring my older son Mark still echoes in my head. He was almost 20 years old. Anne is our friend, the one Mark would have chosen to comfort a church full of people who don’t understand why he…