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A 4-year study by the American College of Sports Medicine, published in Health & Fitness Journal, reveals fitness trends for the coming year. The research, conducted through global surveys, does not report on fitness fads (often exacerbated by celebrity endorsements) and instead focuses on sustainable trends that have made a noteworthy impact on the industry as a whole.

Childhood obesity and how to effectively tackle it will become one of the biggest focuses in 2010. This increasingly growing problem will create a new commercial market while community-based organisations will be created to help address the fact that this new generation may not live as long as their parents or grandparents.

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Dancing With The Stars has done Kelly Osbourne loads of good. She’s losing weight, feeling more confident and she’s even become more feminine and stylish along the way. She has now revealed this week that she’s lost a total of 20 pounds! It was just a few weeks ago that she told OK! Magazine she had lost 14 pounds and she’s dropped six more pounds. Her dance partner Louis Van Amstel has also noticed her dramatic weight loss. He said,

“Her muscles have gotten stronger, too, they become heavier. So, even if it might have been just 20 [pounds], it really feels like 30 or 35 to me ’cause she’s fading in front of my eyes.”

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The beautiful Abigail Spencer is one of the stars from the cast of the popular AMC show, Mad Men. In the current issue of OK! Magazine she gives some effective yet simple diet and exercise tips. She defines herself as a minimalist when it comes to her beauty philosophy and in order to look good on the outside, you’ve got to start with the inside. She explained,

“You can’t just focus it all on the outside. Start with making sure you don’t eat too much junk food, that you’re sleeping and that you’re drinking enough water.”

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Self magazine caught up with a few of the stars of the Twilight movie series and spoke to them about their fitness habits.

Rachelle Lefevre
Cast as Victoria in the first 2 movie of the series, Rachelle keeps fit by hitting a boot camp 4 to 5 times a week. She also does a little Pilates to lengthen and tone her limbs, but drinks about a gallon of water every day.

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Comedian and talk show host Chelsea Handler is on the cover of the December issue of Playboy Magazine.  The 34-year-old hasn’t said if she reveals all but the au-naturalle Chelsea is proud of her shapely body.  On her show Chelsea Lately she will often joke about her large breasts and the fact that she doesn’t need any surgical enhancements.  While on the Jay Leno Show this week she was asked how she got in shape for the photo shoot and she jokingly responded,

“I quit drinking for like a day and a half,” she explains. “And I worked out — but I always work out. So it wasn’t anything major.”

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Hilary Swank graces the cover of Marie Claire for the month of November and the tabloids are simply loving some of her responses to interview questions. Instead of focusing on her diet and exercise plan they like the information that she shared that she sleeps in the nude.  Is that really such a big deal?  Let’s instead focus on what this gal does to look so great.  When it comes to her diet, she is now an ex-vegan after years of being a strong vegan and vegetarian advocate because she has realized her body needs more protein.

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“I always take two or three servings with me on international flights.  Plane food is never, ever a good idea.”

Million dollar actress Hilary Swank has recently admitted to Marie Claire that she cried over her plate of food a few years back when she was forced to give up her vegan diet. The 35-yeard-old Oscar winner says she had to make the switch two years ago for health reasons.

“I just started withering away. I wasn’t getting enough vitamins or protein. (It was) very emotional,” she told the monthly magazine. “I sat over my plate and cried. I really had to work through it. It still makes me emotional.”

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First Lady Michelle Obama is on the cover of the November issue of Prevention Magazine.  As always, she looks fit and fabulous.  In the interview she reveals a little more about her diet and exercise that has already been broadcasted the world over by various magazines and television shows, but it’s great to know that someone in such a well-respected position can be such a positive influence.

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It’s more than a rumor now, it’s official. Universal Studios have announced that they own the rights to film a live-action movie starring the world’s favorite doll, Barbie. And the 50-year-old stunner has decided that even though she’s said to have the “perfect proportions”, she needs to rise to the occasion and get in shape with a new diet and fitness routine.

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