Category — Celebrity

One of the New Moon hunks from the Twilight series was crowned People Magazine’s Sexy Man of the Week, and yes Alex Meraz is definitely sexy. Unlike co-stars Taylor Lautner and BooBoo Stewart who had to prepare for their roles, Alex has been in good athletic shape since he was a kid. Growing up he was involved in dance and martial arts such as karate and MMA style of fighting. [Read more →]

The hunkish Taylor Lautner is on the cover of the December issue of Men’s Health Magazine. Inside, he gives a detailed account of how he packed on 30 pounds of pure muscle over the past year. We recently reported that he had to up his daily calorie intake to 3,200 calories a day in order to not lose weight since he was working so hard. In Men’s Health, he also explains that he had to cut back his cardio workouts because he was losing weight. [Read more →]

Supermodel and actress Veronica Webb is now 44 years of age, but that didn’t stop her from training for the New York City Marathon in only 12 weeks. She decided to run at the last minute in order to raise money for an AIDS service provider, Harlem United. Before training for the marathon she was still doing a lot of physical activity and exercising. She told Self Magazine what her normal workout entails,

“I love kettlebells, yoga and Capoeira.” [Brazilian martial arts]

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The World Champion athlete and boxer Laila Ali is dedicated to ‘knocking out’ childhood obesity. Most recently she has worked with the Live Like A Champion Tour which is an award-winning initiative based out of California.   The tour encourages kids to get active by teaching them interactive games and sports-themed activities.  Ali is one of the newest council members and she was at Kentwood elementary last week showing the kids conditioning exercises.  She said, [Read more →]

Grammy Award winner Christina Aguilera is releasing her third and latest fragrance, Christina Aguilera By Night. She recently spoke with the Daily Mail about her new perfume and her transformation from teen pop idol to a matronly mom. As a self-confessed junk food fanatic she has no plans on remaining stick thin like other celebrities because she doesn’t like going on strict diets and she has more important things to worry about. [Read more →]

Jillian Michaels, fitness guru and trainer for the show The Biggest Loser receives the deserving title as America’s Healthiest Body in the November issue of Health Magazine.  With a new reality show in the works and tons of exercise DVDs and books it’s no surprise this wonder woman is being acknowledged by the magazine. Michaels said she was very flattered by the recognition but she admitted that she too struggles just like the rest of us.   [Read more →]

It’s hard to believe, but the 43-year-old supermodel Cindy Crawford doesn’t think she has the body for the contemporary modeling world. Back in the 90s her curvaceous figure is what made her an international modeling sensation but these days cover girl’s look a lot different. She told Germany’s Bunte Magazine that she looks too healthy and that the industry is no longer looking for,

“A body like mine with big breasts, normal thighs and toned upper arms.”

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Across the pond there’s another celebrity profiting from a fitness website; Sky Sports presenter, Georgie Thompson. She follows in the footsteps of other celebs like Jillian Michaels with loads of fitness products,  Tracy Anderson with a fitness website offering exercise tips and products to buy, as well as Gwyneth Paltrow who has a site with fashion, diet and exercise tips. Georgie teamed up with personal trainer Cat Dugdale to create a website for lazy girls who prefer cocktails to cardio, iamsuperchick.com.

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This week the First Lady invited 100 local school children to the White House for a Healthy Kids Fair.  During the event kids were taught exercise, healthy eating habits and watched food demonstrations on how to make healthy snacks. But Mrs. Obama stole the show when she hula-hooped 142 swivels before the hula-hoop hit the ground.  She explained to the press that the event was to teach kids how to eat and exercise and she considered it a call to action because one out of three kids in the US are overweight or obese.  She said,

“One of our goals was to focus on the importance of educating our kids about healthy eating,”

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Aislin Bates is by all accounts a healthy, active 2 year old who was denied health insurance by United Health Care for being too small. She weighs 22 pounds which is in the third percentile for children her age. Her father was dumbfounded stating:

“It seems as if they’re discriminating about the fact that she’s smaller, that her size is an issue,. I don’t see why that would be a factor in whether or not a child is healthy.”

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