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		<title>Simone Biles’ Winning Message Is as Good as Gold</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Aug 2024 20:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Simone Biles became the most decorated Olympic gymnast in U.S. history by taking time for herself and maintaining therapy sessions while competing in Paris.  “I’m in a good spot mentally and physically, and you can’t take it from me,” Biles said in an NBC Olympics interview. “So when I go out there, it’s pure joy.” [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When Cinnamon Rolls Call: A Food Story on Craving Memories</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2021 22:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In "Leaving Large: The Stories of a Food Addict," Michelle Petties reveals that she was once so obese that some insurance companies refused to cover her. A recovering “stone-cold sugar addict,” Petties gained and lost 700 pounds during her 42-year battle with obesity. Then she rewrote the endings of her food stories and dropped from a high of 260 pounds.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Kicks, Tricks and Flips: The Fearless Life of a Stuntwoman</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2021 13:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“I’m going to go get my husband,” announces Angela Bassett’s character, LAPD Officer Athena Grant, before rushing into a burning building to save him and confront the sniper holding him hostage amid the flames in the season finale of Fox’s 911. Bassett is great, as always, yet key moments of the terrifying scene are actually [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Oneika Phillips Brings a Taste of the Caribbean to Broadway</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2021 18:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The burst of energy known as Oneika Phillips is a Guyanese-born performer raised on the island of Grenada. It is there that the artistic seeds were planted and would eventually sprout on the stages of Broadway. By Crispin Brooks Broadway actor, dancer and singer Oneika Phillips fondly remembers Sunday afternoons in her childhood living room [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Extending ‘Healthspan’ — Brain Scientists Tap Into Secrets of Living Well Longer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 08:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Sharon Jayson AUSTIN, Texas — Retired state employees Vickey Benford, 63, and Joan Caldwell, 61, are Golden Rollers, a group of the over-50 set that gets out on assorted bikes — including trikes for adults they call “three wheels of awesome” — for an hour of trail riding and camaraderie. “I love to exercise, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How to Get a Healthy Gut</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 06:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Your gut could be why you’re tired, have no energy and possibly gaining weight. Check out Fierce adviser Dr. Ro&#8217;s primer on how to get a healthy gut. Plus recipes and more! Listen to &#8220;How To Get A Healthy Gut&#8221; on Spreaker.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Resolution Reality Check: 5 Goals That You Can Hit!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 05:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The good news is that you&#8217;re 10 times more likely to keep a New Year&#8217;s resolution than those who don’t make any at all. The bad news is that 60 percent of people who make resolutions drop them in just six months. The even better news is that you can make your resolutions come true [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>For Meshelle, Laughter Really Is the Best Medicine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Oct 2019 22:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Meshelle the Indie Mom of Comedy tells Fierce fitness adviser Dr. Ro how she stays fit — and how she had the last laugh on a cancer diagnosis. Listen to &#8220;The Indie Mom of Comedy: Reclaiming You&#8221; on Spreaker.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Research Biologist Spins Science Career Into Fitness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2019 10:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mel Blaine is at the front of the room wearing a lime green shirt, blue leggings and pink bike shoes that match her studio. She’s teaching a small class, but you could never tell. She keeps them pumped with the same energy she’d have if it were a full class. Everyone is sweaty and breathing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Zumba! Join the 15 Day Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2017 02:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many people think they need to workout for 1-2 plus hours a day to make progress toward their &#8220;goal&#8221; weight. Truth is, studies show that short periods of high intensity training (HIT), like Zumba, are as effective in the long-turn as strenuous endurance workouts. The Latin dance inspired workout craze, Zumba, varies between HIT and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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