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Sometimes we have to shift our expectations. Life is messy. It can interfere with the best made plans. Author and member Nancy Kennedy shares how she applied the rollercoaster of her typical day to accomplish weight-loss success …

Has your heart ever skipped a beat when a little daredevil fearlessly leaped into a swimming pool? Perhaps you’re sitting at the ocean’s edge when you realize your teen has ventured too far in the surf. Or, maybe you share similar worries but for yourself, a lifelong doggy-paddler at best. Relieve these anxieties with some basic swimming smarts …

With warmer temperatures and sunny days, runners are quick to hit the road. Perhaps you are one of this dedicated group, or wish to be. They’re an admirable bunch, whether slim and fast or trotting along like a horse resisting inevitable days in the pasture. Cars whizz by them with passengers straining behind seatbelts, visions of their sneakers and sweats racing through their heads. Seize the moment (and a stop watch). Now is the time to become a runner …

At many fitness facilities, the buff get buffer and the standard goal is improved appearance. Sure, the Center has our share of six-pack abs walking around. But, alongside these buns-of-steel, the rest of the world exercises—the injured athlete, the postpartum new mom, the accident victim rehabbing. We are getting results, as varied as they might be …

Although modern Barbie is packaged as a can-do-anything career doll, her perfectly proportioned bombshell image still shouts the same message: Success, adoration, and physical beauty are codependent. Just one example of many, media today continues to emphasize outer beauty. And we continue to hunger for it, sometimes in the most literal (and dangerous) sense …