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How to Make a Smoothie the Right Way
Read More: How to Make a Smoothie the Right WaySmoothies are an easy, foolproof way to pack extra nutrients into your dietโif you know the right way to build them. The order you add your ingredients can affect the taste and texture, but once youโve got the formula down, you can start mixing and matching. And when solid food is not the move after…
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6 Outdoor Activities for Active Seniors
Read More: 6 Outdoor Activities for Active SeniorsSeniors need to stay active to maintain their health. While many of them would prefer staying indoors, others find it more beneficial to explore the outdoors. Leisure walks and outdoor activities are effective in making older adults feel alive. Plus, they are great for keeping them motivated to focus on their health and well-being. These…
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The Perks of Barefoot Training
Read More: The Perks of Barefoot TrainingA good pair of shoes seems like a no-brainer for resistance training, yet every now and then, youโll see a super-fit person crushing a workout in bare feet. Is there something to this, or is it just some peculiar personal preference? Our dynamic duo of experts weighs in and give a yea or nay on…
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The 100-V-In Fitness Quest: Final Check-In
Read More: The 100-V-In Fitness Quest: Final Check-InThe 100-V-in Fitness Quest has come to a close, and by now weโre sure you have abs of steel. Itโs no small feat to rep out 100 in a row, but thatโs exactly why itโs a quest to begin with! Are you up for another challenge? Stay tuned for moreย Oxygenย fitness questsย here. If youโre not feeling…
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Feeling Stressed? Try Yoga
Read More: Feeling Stressed? Try YogaItโs no secret that yoga is relaxing for both body and mind, and study after study supports that claim. Healthy individuals can use yoga to reduce stress in their daily lives, but new research indicates yoga may also improve cardiovascular health, and help curb fatigue and increase physical well-being for those undergoing cancer treatments. Yoga…
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Expert Answers: Are You Injured or Just Sore?
Read More: Expert Answers: Are You Injured or Just Sore?You might waddle, limp and even grimace while sitting down after a particularly grueling workout. And letโs face it: Many of us may consider the ridiculousness of slowly easing into a chair after leg and glute day the sign of a good workout. But how do you tell whether itโs just soreness or somethingโs really…
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See How a Team USA Pole-Vaulter Trains for the Olympics
Read More: See How a Team USA Pole-Vaulter Trains for the OlympicsWe would start by saying Katie Nageotte is a well-grounded athlete, but seeing as she spends most of her time flying through the air, that wouldnโt exactly be accurate. This uber-talented Olympic pole-vaulter is taking on her first Olympics this year at the 2020 Tokyo Games, and we have high hopes for her โ as…
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Access, Access to health care, Affordability, Depression, Health care, Health insurance, Keep the care, mental health, Postpartum, Pregnancy, Reproductive rights, Women’s rights
Women Say California Insurer Makes It Too Hard to Get Drug for Postpartum Depression
Read More: Women Say California Insurer Makes It Too Hard to Get Drug for Postpartum DepressionBy April Dembosky, KQED, Kaiser Health News When Miriam McDonald decided she wanted to have another baby at age 44, her doctor told her she had a better chance of winning the lottery. So when she got pregnant right away, she and her husband were thrilled. But within three days of giving birth to their…
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Hereโs Why the CDC Recommends Wearing Masks Indoors Even if Youโve Been Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19
Read More: Hereโs Why the CDC Recommends Wearing Masks Indoors Even if Youโve Been Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19By Peter Chin-Hong, University of California, San Francisco Vaccinated people need to mask up again, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On July 27, 2021, the CDC recommended that everyone in areas with high COVID-19 infection rates wear masks in public indoor spaces, regardless of vaccination status. It’s a reversal from…
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6 Steps to Perfect Deadlift Form
Read More: 6 Steps to Perfect Deadlift FormWhatโs in a name? If it happens to be โdeadlift,โ then a whole bunch of fear and loathing among the lifting gen pop. The moniker is apt, though. Not that a deadlift will literally kill you, but if youโre doing it right, youโll be dead tired afterward. Deadlifts engage every major muscle group in your…
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5 Ways to Maximize Your Gym Time
Read More: 5 Ways to Maximize Your Gym TimeIf you have a busy schedule, squeezing in gym time can be tough. While there are days when you can take your time, mull around and chat with your gym buds, sometimes you just gotta get in and out. So, how do you do that without skimping out on your workout? Here are a few…
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Anxiety, Breast cancer, Breastfeeding, Coronavirus, COVID-19, mental health, Parenting, Self-Care, Stress
With a Little Help from Our Friends
Read More: With a Little Help from Our FriendsIn 2013, Melissa Berry was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. “It’s a very aggressive form, and there were some pretty bad white-knuckle moments where I didn’t know what my prognosis was going to be,” Berry, now 50, recalled. She credits her friends as helping get her through her treatments. Berry has a group of…
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10 Mistakes to Avoid When Transitioning to a Plant-Based Diet
Read More: 10 Mistakes to Avoid When Transitioning to a Plant-Based DietCongratulations on making the decision to adopt a plant-based lifestyle. While youโre no doubt feeling excited about the positive changes this will bring to your health and our planet, itโs common to feel a bit overwhelmed, too. If youโve spent the majority of your life making meat the centerpiece of most dinner plates (not to…
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The ER Doctor Thought I Was Overreacting: I Had a Pulmonary Embolism
Read More: The ER Doctor Thought I Was Overreacting: I Had a Pulmonary EmbolismAs told to Liz Sauchelli I looked the ER doctor in the eye and insisted he give me a CAT scan. I couldn’t understand his lack of urgency and the way he downplayed the seriousness of the situation. I was there because another doctor had found a huge blood clot in my leg, and 18…
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2021 HealthyWomen Annual Event
Read More: 2021 HealthyWomen Annual EventCelebrating Women’s Health, Research, and Innovation Thursday, October 7, 20214:00-7:00 p.m. EDTThe Dupont Circle Hotel1500 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington D.C. 20036 Attire: Cocktail Our in-person gathering will be an evening to remember, hosted by Emmy award-winning journalist Barbara Harrison. We’re grateful to have you and esteemed leaders in the healthcare field join HealthyWomen in…
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Condiciones crรณnicas, Cuidados mรฉdicos, Dermatitis atรณpica, Eccema, Paternidad, Piel, Salud de la piel
Conversaciรณn sobre la salud: Preguntas para su mรฉdico sobre la dermatitis atรณpica
Read More: Conversaciรณn sobre la salud: Preguntas para su mรฉdico sobre la dermatitis atรณpicaLa Dra. Elizabeth Liotta hizo la revisiรณn mรฉdica de este documento El tipo mรกs comรบn de eccema, la dermatitis atรณpica (AD, por sus siglas en inglรฉs) es una enfermedad inflamatoria crรณnica que causa manchas rojas acompaรฑadas de comezรณn en todo el cuerpo. Mรกs de 16.5 millones de adultos y 9.6 millones de niรฑos padecen de…
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Conversaciรณn sobre la salud: Conversaciones con pacientes sobre fibromas uterinos
Read More: Conversaciรณn sobre la salud: Conversaciones con pacientes sobre fibromas uterinosEste artรญculo se preparรณ en asociaciรณn con The White Dress Project. La Dra. Kristen A. Matteson hizo la revisiรณn mรฉdica de este artรญculo. Los fibromas uterinos son la condiciรณn ginecolรณgica mรกs comรบn para mujeres de edad reproductiva. Para cuando cumplan 50 aรฑos, hasta un 80% de mujeres habrรกn desarrollado fibromas, y el 20% de esas…
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Training News Roundup: Summer 2021
Read More: Training News Roundup: Summer 2021Femme (Fat)al Girls rule when it comes to fat burning, according to research published in Experimental Physiology. Women who are fit and healthy tend to burn more fat than men, giving us the metabolic advantage when it comes to insulin sensitivity and endurance. Muscle biopsies taken from participants who took part in a cycling test…
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6 Killer Workouts to Do at the Beach
Read More: 6 Killer Workouts to Do at the BeachAh, the beach โ the sun, the sand โฆ the workout? Why not! Sand is a forgiving surface, reducing the force of normally high-impact moves such as plyometrics. Itโs also unstable, requiring all those small, stabilizing muscles to play a bigger role than they usually would on solid ground. These eight exercises leverage those sandy…
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4 Food Combinations to Boost Nutrient Absorption
Read More: 4 Food Combinations to Boost Nutrient AbsorptionYouโre eating right, taking all the right supplements and exercising regularly, but youโre not seeing the results you want. Maybe youโve nailed down exactly what you have to eat to live your healthiest lifestyle, but have you thought about the combinations of foods you eat? How about the ingredients youโre combining, beyond your basic macronutrients?ย …
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The Pain Gap: Why Womenโs Pain Is Undertreated
Read More: The Pain Gap: Why Womenโs Pain Is UndertreatedWhen Karen Finney went into the hospital for brain surgery, she was well aware of the gender pain gap: women in pain are taken and treated less seriously than men in pain. Women of color are affected even more severely, and as a Black woman, Finney knew the hill to relief would be even steeper…
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June Policy Roundup
Read More: June Policy Roundup1. The Affordable Care Act Lives to Fight Another Day On June 17, 2021, the United States Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit that would have made the Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional. The argument, brought by several Republican state attorneys general, was that Congress had effectively undone the individual mandate by making the tax penalty…
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Access, Access to health care, Affordable care act, Birth control, Health insurance, Keep the care, Reproductive health, Reproductive rights, Women’s rights
Contraception Is Free to Women, Except When Itโs Not
Read More: Contraception Is Free to Women, Except When Itโs NotBy Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News For Stephanie Force, finding a birth control method that she likes and can get without paying out-of-pocket has been a struggle, despite the Affordable Care Act’s promise of free contraceptives for women and adolescent girls in most health plans. The 27-year-old physician recruiter in Roanoke, Virginia, was perfectly happy…
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5 Fit Women Who Inspire Us to Keep Pushing
Read More: 5 Fit Women Who Inspire Us to Keep PushingIf youโre familiar with Oxygen, you know that five inspiring women are selected to be featured in the print magazineโs Future of Fitness column. Think you have what it takes? Send us your story. Kimberly Kenney Winston-Salem, North Carolina 44 โข 133 lb โข 5โ5โ Certified personal trainer Fettuccineย Fiasco. Kimberly Kenney had been on high…
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The Ring-Ready At-Home HIIT Boxing Workout
Read More: The Ring-Ready At-Home HIIT Boxing WorkoutAt some point, you grow tired of the same old cardio routines โ treadmill, elliptical, running, boot camps, what have you โ and need something a little different to mix things up.ย How about boxing?ย Itโs more stimulating than most cardio machines, provides an incredible cardiovascular and conditioning workout, and can be done at home with…
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Fasted Cardio vs. Non-Fasted Cardio for Maximum Fat Loss
Read More: Fasted Cardio vs. Non-Fasted Cardio for Maximum Fat LossAn article published in The New York Times on December 3, 2019 reported that, โCyclists who peddled on an empty stomach burned twice as much fat.โ It has been reported in the scientific literature in the past that aerobic exercise after an overnight fast accelerates the loss of body fat. Research has shown that low…
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Allie Long Shares How She Gets Her Mind and Body Game-Day Ready
Read More: Allie Long Shares How She Gets Her Mind and Body Game-Day ReadyPlaying for the U.S. womenโs national soccer team is demanding โ thereโs no denying that. Allie Long, a professional midfielder on the OL Reign and the USWNT, burns through endless energy through practices, scrimmages, games and her fitness routine off the field. To stay healthy and at the top of her game, she relies on…
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7 Ways to Improve Your Quality of Sleep
Read More: 7 Ways to Improve Your Quality of SleepAccording to the National Sleep Foundation, adults between 18 and 65 years old should aim to get seven to nine hours of sleep each night for optimum recovery. For those 65 and older, the recommendation is seven to eight hours each night. Everyone knows sleep is essential for a healthy body and mind, so why…
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Should Fully Immunized People Wear Masks Indoors? An Infectious Disease Physician Weighs In
Read More: Should Fully Immunized People Wear Masks Indoors? An Infectious Disease Physician Weighs InBy Peter Chin-Hong, University of California, San Francisco With the highly infectious delta coronavirus variant spreading at an alarming rate, the World Health Organization in late June 2021 urged people to again wear masks indoors โ even those who are fully vaccinated. And on July 15, Los Angeles County, California, announced that it would again…
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Medication safety, Opioid use disorder, Opioids, Otc medication safety, Pregnancy, Prescription drugs, Substance abuse
Using for Two
Read More: Using for TwoJen Simon tried many times to quit using the opioids she first started taking to help with painful periods, and then, to ease her anxiety and depression. But, she just couldn’t seem to stop โ until she found out she was pregnant with her second son. “It was much easier to quit for someone else,”…
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Living With Fibroids
Read More: Living With FibroidsDid you know the vast majority of American women will probably get uterine fibroids by age 50? But despite being common, there’s not a lot of talk about fibroids in the national conversation on women’s health. Women trying to understand their fibroid diagnosis and treatment and management options often get incorrect information, which contributes to…
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6 Exercises to Boost Mobility and Balance
Read More: 6 Exercises to Boost Mobility and BalanceBalance is a component of all movement,ย and combining it with your mobilityย training preworkout reinforcesย equilibrium in your kinetic chain andย improves stability, alignment, strengthย and flexibility. It also can help preventย injury, hone focus, boost body awarenessย and train patience. Do these moves in order as part ofย your warm-up routine. Numbers 1, 2,ย 4 and 5 train mobility/balance, andย numbers 3 and…
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Being Pregnant Was Wonderful. And Overwhelming.
Read More: Being Pregnant Was Wonderful. And Overwhelming.As told to Shannon Shelton Miller Every time I visited the doctor during my pregnancy, I’d take a test or undergo a screening to make sure my baby was all right. My healthcare providers (HCPs) checked my vitals too, giving me a clean bill of physical health each time. But no one asked how I…
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Before Shark Week and โJaws,โ World War II Spawned Americaโs Shark Obsession
Read More: Before Shark Week and โJaws,โ World War II Spawned Americaโs Shark ObsessionBy ‘Shark Sense’ sought to prepare troops for encounters with the marine predators. Navy Archives Similarly, the Navy’s 1944 pamphlet titled โShark Sense” advised wounded servicemen stranded at sea to โstaunch the flow of blood as soon as you disengage the parachute” to thwart hungry sharks. The pamphlet helpfully noted that hitting an aggressive shark…
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Oxygen Live Workout: Janelle Trujillo
Read More: Oxygen Live Workout: Janelle TrujilloRegister here for a live workout with Janelle Trujillo on July 28 at 12:30 p.m. EST (9:30 a.m. PST). If youโre unable to attend this event live, we will post the workout here for on-demand viewing post-event. Stay tuned for the details on this at-home live workout with Janelle Trujillo! Oxygen Live Workouts As the…
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Clinically Speaking: Talking to Patients About Uterine Fibroids
Read More: Clinically Speaking: Talking to Patients About Uterine FibroidsThis article was developed in partnership with The White Dress Project. Medically reviewed by Dr. Kristen A. Matteson Uterine fibroids are the most common gynecological condition among women of reproductive age. By the time they turn 50, up to 80% of all women will have developed fibroids, with 20% of those women experiencing symptoms that…
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Clinically Speaking: What Are My Options Following a Fibroid Diagnosis?
Read More: Clinically Speaking: What Are My Options Following a Fibroid Diagnosis?This article was developed in partnership with The White Dress Project. Medically reviewed by Dr. Kristen A. Matteson Uterine fibroids are the most common gynecological condition among women of reproductive age. By the time they turn 50, up to 80% of all women will have experienced fibroids, which are noncancerous (benign) growths that develop in…
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Clinically Speaking: What to Ask Your Healthcare Provider If You Think You Have Uterine Fibroids
Read More: Clinically Speaking: What to Ask Your Healthcare Provider If You Think You Have Uterine FibroidsThis article was developed in partnership with The White Dress Project. Medically reviewed by Dr. Kristen A. Matteson Uterine fibroids are the most common gynecological condition among women of reproductive age. By the time they turn 50, up to 80% of all women will have experienced fibroids, which are noncancerous (benign) growths that develop in…
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chronic pain, Medication safety, Opioid use disorder, Opioids, Otc medication safety, Pain, Pain management, Prescription drugs, Research, Science, Substance abuse
Designing Less Addictive Opioids, Through Chemistry
Read More: Designing Less Addictive Opioids, Through ChemistryBy Aaron W. Harrison, Austin College What if there was a way for pain patients to get all the pain-relieving power of opioids with none of the addicting side effects? Opioids are one of the most powerful pain medications available, but millions of Americans have struggled with prescription opioid misuse after getting hooked on the…
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Quick Facts About the Tokyo Olympics
Read More: Quick Facts About the Tokyo OlympicsThe Olympic theme song (John Williamsโ Olympic Fanfare and Theme) has been stuck in our heads for weeks โ but now the Tokyo Olympics is days away!ย When the 2020 Olympics was postponed due to COVID-19, the world was understandably devastated. Now we canโt wait to support our athletes as they conquer their sports starting…
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55 Fast Fat-Burning Tips
Read More: 55 Fast Fat-Burning TipsBy Shoshana Pritzker IN THE KITCHEN 1. Keep the Calories Up. Whether you prefer to eat three meals or six meals per day is up to you. What really matters is eating enough calories throughout the day to keep your metabolism fired up and provide you enough energy for the day. Believe it or not,…
