Category — Weight Loss Tips

Yes, Ernestine Sheperd is 72-years-old. Yes, she’s a fitness instructor. And yes, she runs 80 miles a week and lifts weights almost every day.

Once a week Ernestine leads a workout class for senior citizens at the Union Memorial United Methodist Church in Baltimore, Maryland, with her main inspiration to let individual s her age know that they too can stay fit and healthy and not have to worry about being laughed at or stared at at a regular gym.

If this woman doesn’t inspire you, no matter your age, then I don’t know what will…

Celeb Diet Doc…
Check out the abs on her! You go girl!

If you’d like to help the citizens of Haiti who are trying to piece back together their lives after the devastating earthquake ripped apart their nation on January 12, you can put your feet on the pavement and your hands in your wallets.

Trish Short: Sponsor this ultra marathoner as she runs 30 miles on January 30 at the Firstenburg Community Center in Vancouver to raise money for the Three Angels Children’s Relief, which supports an orphanage, school and medical clinic in Haiti. The charity also helps brings orphans to the U.S. after the tragedy.

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With the United States facing its biggest obesity crisis ever, slimming the nation has never been more important. Whole Foods Market CEO, John Mackey, has found a way he can help the government in its crusade, even if it only affects his employees. Mackey has launched a new rewards initiative, the Team Member Healthy Discount Incentive Program, where healthier employees receive bigger store discounts. [Read more →]

Last year weight-loss experts predicted fitness trends for 2010, with one of them being the increase on digital fitness trackers. A new Facebook application has just been launched, in time to capitalize on the growing trend. [Read more →]

We all know what it’s like to get home at the end of a tough day and just want to curl up on the sofa with a jumbo sized Pepsi and super-sized Big Mac. We all think that junk food makes us feel a little self-indulgent and a little better about ourselves, but it might actually be fueling the bad mood you’re in and making feel worse – even to the point of increasing your risk of depression. [Read more →]

It seems this isn’t the week to be buying diet pills; the Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to consumers of the contamination of GlaxoSmithKlein’s counterfeit diet drug. Laboratory tests discovered dangerously high levels of sibutramine in Alli pills, which if ingested could bring about the same health risks as Meridia. [Read more →]

Lose weight like your favorite stars by dancing of the pounds with the fitness DVD Dancing with the Stars: Dance Off the Pounds.  Professional dancers Lacey Schwimmer, Dmitry Chaplin and Kym Johnson will take your through the jive, swing and quickstep routines that’ll get your heart racing and your legs pumping. [Read more →]

The Dancing with the Stars tv show is famous for helping celebs melt off the pounds and now you can too, at home! Dancing with the Stars: Dance Body Tone was released in December and teaches viewers how to not only dance off the pounds but also gracefully pull of the professional moves like the celebrity contestants. [Read more →]

If you’re currently taking the Meridia weight-loss pill and you have a history of heart problems, it’s best you stop using it. The Food and Drug Administration have issue new warnings saying the pill could increase the risk of heart attack and/or stroke.

Meridia is related to the amphetamine family and was approved by the FDA in 1997 to be used as a weight-loss supplement in combination with exercise and a diet. The FDA said in a statement that patients taking the drug should consult their doctors and should have their blood pressure as well as heart rate regularly checked. [Read more →]

Those who follow strongman competitions and keep an eye on records involving great feats of strength will know the Mighty Joe Rollino. Sadly, at the age of 104, he died. But not from old age, he was hit by a minivan while on one of his daily walks.

Even at his ripe old age, Joe never missed his morning walk. Whether the sun was shining or the rain came pouring down, the man affectionately known as the World’s Strongest Man by his fans in Brooklyn, walked 5 miles every day.

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