“If you go with the flow in America today,” says Thomas Freiden of the CDC, “you’ll end up obese.” He means that obesity is a side effect of progress. But not just progress: a particularly Western version of progress that we’re exporting to the rest of the world. Enormous advances in food preparation and cultivation technology. Media culture and sedentary lifestyles that participate in it. A …

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The Moral Urgency Of Obesity

Missoula could become home to one of the first national training centers in the world for a new device called Corealign.

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Missoula patient benefits from new physical therapy device

The latest evolutionary debutante is Ardi Ardipithecus Ramidus whose complete skull and pelvis crowns her as the greatest grandmother of modern day humans. About 2 million years ago these women evolved into the species Homo erectus. They walked upright out of Africa to populate the world.

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The 21st century upright woman

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Win Trudie Styler's new Pilates DVD! News of the World that uses essential Pilates moves to give you a complete head-to-toe workout that'll strengthen and tone your core as well improve your flexibility. …

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Aspire Active (AA) yesterday marked World Health Day with the campaign 1,000 cities, 1,000 lives by showcasing its programmes for fitness, success stories and programmes that have made peoples lives different.

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Aspire Active showcases its programmes

(New Brunswick, NJ) — Local Jazzercise Instructors energized hundreds of Rutgers students at the 2010 Rutgers University Dance Marathon (RUDM) on Sunday, March 28 between 7:40 and 8:20am, when they gave a live demonstration of the largest dance-fitness program in the world at the College Ave Gym on the New Brunswick campus.

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JAZZERCISE TAKES PART IN RUTGERS DANCE MARATHON (MyCentralJersey.com)

A PECULIAR not so new any more habit called Twittering has taken the world by storm.

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Twitter for twits (The Borneo Post)

BOULDER, Colo. — February 22, 2010 – According to Outside Magazine, Boulder’s Flatiron Athletic Club is”The premier workout facility in the World’s Fittest City”. Many world champions live and train in Boulder, and the assumption is that some of the fittest CEOs in the World most likely also call Boulder their home.

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Health and Fitness: Who is the Fittest CEO in the World’s Fittest City? (RunnersWeb.com)

Kelly Camey has taken over ownership of Kewanee’s Jazzercise program. Jazzercise, the largest dance-fitness program in the world, will hold a  grand reopening of its fitness center at 789 Tenney St.

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Kewanee Jazzercise under new ownership (Kewanee Star Courier)