Over the past three months, a bizarre story has unfolded involving a murder at a Bethesda, Maryland, Lululemon Athletica store. At first, a coworker of the slain victim, Jayna Murray, reported that masked gunmen came into the store for a botched robbery. But slowly, her story began to unravel. Eventually, the same coworker, Brittany Norwood, was charged with the murder. Although the loss will never end for the victim’s friends and family, a chapter has come to a close in this tragedy. In honor of the victim, hundreds of people gathered on Saturday for an outdoor yoga class to remember her.”She was such a positive person; she would not want us here being sad. Want to know more?

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Life isnt fair and nowhere is that more evident than the findings from a new study. It appears that obese people who with drastic changes will often do more harm than good.

When obese persons reduce their food intake too drastically, their bodies appear to resist their weight loss efforts. They may have to work harder and go slower in order to outsmart their brain chemistry, said Gregory G. Freund, a professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and a member of Universitys Division of Nutritional Sciences.

Freund makes a point of telling people to not start their dieting with a cleansing day, since this seems to trigger changes in the immune system that counter weight loss efforts.

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Concussions make headlines when they affect NFL players, and there is growing awareness that they can also affect teen athletes.

Every high school and college football program — as well as those for other high-contact sports — should have a concussion management program, says Mark Lovell, PhD, founding director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Sports Medicine Concussion Program.

Football and Concussions

Learn what the NFL, colleges, and high schools are doing to protect football players from the risks of concussions. 

Football Tackles Concussion Risk

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Weight Loss Principle 5: No Shortcut

We know for sure that dietary restriction, discretionary exercise and incidental daily activities all contribute to an energy deficit, thereby resulting in weight loss. This is a tried-and-tested formula, which the National Weight Control Registry (a U.S. database of individuals who are highly successful in losing weight and maintaining their weight loss) attests to.

National Weight Control Registry

Founded in 1994 by Drs Rena Wing and James Hill in the United States, the registry aims to study the traits and strategies of individuals who are successful in losing weight and maintaining their weight loss.

There are now more than 4,000 members, the average having lost 30.5 kg and having maintained a weight loss of more than 13.5 kg for more than 5.5 years.

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