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Some days, it seems like the hours just start slipping away. You turn around and your morning is gone, irretrievable, and there's nothing you can do about it. As much as we all like to say we make time to be healthy - to shop for nutritious foods, cook healthy meals, work out, and make sure we share our habits with our families - on those particularly busy days, it can seem impossible! Solution: multi-tasking. It seems obvious, but there are ways to combine your FitToDo lifestyle with your family time and still reap all the rewards of living healthily. This week I'm concentrating on exercise, as that seems to be one of the first priorities that gets dropped when things get hectic. Here are some suggestions for keeping your fitness goals on track:

The Food and Drug Administration has moved to limit the use of an antibiotic that is injected into livestock before slaughter, saying it could increase antibiotic resistance in humans.

Ever heard of the saying "nothing has changed, yet everything is different"? To some women, this is the case when it comes to their sex lives. Many women suffer from lack of sexual drive due to a number of changes in their lives. Sexual dysfunction in woman could be due to psychosocial factors, which includes mental health issues like depression, self-esteem, anxiety, stress, and fatigue.

Keep A Breast Foundation is a national non-profit organization dedicated to preventing and eradicating cancer for the American public. Perhaps its most famous move is the backing of the humorous and some would say provocative, "I Love Boobies" bracelets. While the bands were certainly born from good intentions, we must question the implications of such a sentiment.

Paying attention to calories is not the only precaution necessary to be able to lose weight; in fact, according to a recent research, the kind of foods that you choose to eat can be even more important. The scholars showed that the index of the quality of the diet (IQD) is the parameter that makes the difference between being obese or lean, regardless of the number of calories consumed. It's like saying: no matter how much you eat, what you eat matters. Read the full article.

Many personal trainers may have turned their backs on bodyweight exercises but I for one have not. I believe that, sometimes, the old ways are the best and certainly warrant inclusion in a program that uses other training methods. So, until you can do 50 push-ups, 15 pull-ups and 10 one-legged squats, don't go saying that bodyweight exercises are "just for beginners" - it's really just not true!

Scientists claim to have finally figured out why most people cannot get enough of Oreos. Long story short, they say that, according to evidence at hand, these chocolate cookies are as addictive as cocaine. The chocolate cookies have been found to trigger the same neurons in the brain's 'pleasure centre' as the outlawed drug during extensive lab testing on rats. Read the full article

Struggling to stick to your diet? Then make sure you stock up on fruit and veg - even if you don't eat it. In a study published in the journal Eating Behaviors, British researchers say that looking at, smelling, or actually eating healthy foods (like whole fruit or a salad) can help dieters stay on track when they're hungry. Read the article to know why.

An inexpensive digital scale and graph paper can halt the steady ballooning of your waistline, say Cornell University researchers.

A new analysis says that fat ladies who smoke cigarettes might not have the interest towards sweets.

"The more you eat in, the more you can control and the healthier your plate is going to be," says Rachel Brandeis of the American Dietetic Association. "I wish people would think that when they are eating, they could be lowering their cancer risk." Read the full article...

Burning the candle at both ends during the working week could raise a person's risk of developing type 2 diabetes, New York researchers say. People who slept fewer than six hours a night were more likely to develop a condition that precedes diabetes than those sleeping for longer, they found. They said the study supported mounting evidence that cutting back on sleep can have a profound impact on health.

AUGUSTA, Ga. - Too little vitamin D could be bad for more than your bones; it may also lead to fatter adolescents, researchers say.\n\nA Medical College of Georgia study of more than 650 teens age 14-19 has found that those who reported higher vitamin D intakes had lower overall body fat and lower amounts of the fat in the abdomen, a type of fat known as visceral fat, which has been associated with health risks such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes and hypertension

March 11, 2009 -- Low vitamin D levels greatly increase a teenager's risk of diabetes and heart disease, Johns Hopkins researchers find. It is becoming clear that adults who get too little vitamin D are at higher risk for diabetes and heart disease. Now, it appears vitamin D levels also affect these risks earlier in life, say Johns Hopkins researchers Jared P. Reis, PhD, and colleagues.

The juice of Acai berry is consumed in many forms like smoothies,mix,soda,ice-cream etc.Regarding the use of various forms of acai as a weight loss supplement i could not find any controlled study.But this much i can say none of the aforementioned claims have been validated by the FDA.