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Pregnancy After 40: Healthy Weight Improves Risk Age, Obesity Both Affect Risks, but Losing Weight Before Conceiving May Help, Experts Say May 9, 2012 -- Pregnancy after 40 does carry more risks, but being at a healthy weight before getting pregnant seems to modify those risks, new research suggests.

ONE lesson I've learned while writing about fitness is that few things impinge on an active life as much as writing about fitness - all that time spent hunched before a computer or puzzling over scientific journals, the countless hours of feckless, seated procrastination. While writing about the benefits of exercise, my muscles slackened.

You're not in the MLM industry very long before you hear the phrase, "That's one of those pyramids!" Or the question, "Is this one of those pyramids?" I don't endorse this Web site but some people might find the article interesting.

Study Shows Benefits for Heart Health in Obese Children Who Lose Weight Before Adulthood

Drea McLarty, a 35-year-old mother of two, awoke before dawn to run nine miles on a recent Monday, then made breakfast for the family, did some errands and headed to the park for an hour of Pilates. Later that afternoon, she had a personal training session with a client.

Study Suggests Benefits to Taking Blood Pressure Drugs Before Going to Sleep Oct. 27, 2011 -- Taking at least one blood pressure medicine at bedtime cuts the risk of heart problems, according to new research. The study also shows that participants taking at least one blood pressure pill at bedtime had lower blood pressure while asleep.