Actor Ryan O’Neal was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. The actor suffered from leukemia in the 1990s, but went into remission in 2006. O’Neal lost the love of his life, Farrah Fawcett, to cancer in 2009. In a 2009 article in People magazine, O’Neal described cancer as “an insidious enemy.”

Professionals are attempting to contain the cancer for O’Neal. At this time, there is a risk that it can spread to his bones and other areas of his body. However, O’Neal is planning to undergo extensive chemotherapy and take a strong regimen of medications during this time. O’Neal says that he’s ready to battle this disease head on.

O’Neal’s memoir, Both of Us: My Life with Farrah, details his relationship with Fawcett and her struggle and consequent death from anal cancer in 2009. Of the book, O’Neal said, “Maybe this [memoir] was my way of trying to bring her back. At least it was a way to stay connected to her.”

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Writing articles is one of the most effective ways of marketing your fitness business. There are many sites, forums, communities and blogs which accept contributions from fitness professionals who want to share unique information about solving health and fitness problems. You could also build your own blog. A personal blog will allow you to post regular fitness and health tips. With time, your blog will experience an increase in traffic. If readers find your tips useful, they will keep returning for more. Besides a blog, you could publish an email newsletter which can be sent out to readers weekly or fortnightly.

Articles will help you promote your services to the target market. In addition, once your article gets published, people will begin seeing you as an authority on the subject. However, many fitness professionals are not aware of the benefits of short articles and therefore fail to make use of this powerful marketing tool. The following are some guidelines that will help you start writing your own articles on fitness fast and easily.

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If you’re a UK resident, then you’ll be no stranger to the dark, cold conditions that permeate throughout the winter months (and often even the summer months). During these darker periods, the lack of sunshine has been proven to cause the levels of the chemical serotonin (the so-called ‘feel good’ chemical) in the brain to dip, resulting in a feeling of depression often referred to as the ‘Winter blues’.

So how can you beat these Winter blues? What steps can you take to help you feel better during the colder, darker months? According to Put Pork On Your Fork, you can help beat the blues by eating what they refer to as ‘mood boosting’ foods (including pork, spinach, chilli, mango, bananas, walnuts, salmon, pineapple, chocolate and avocado).

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Now thanks to the wonderful Sylvie at FuelMyBlog and those generous people at JML Direct, I was recently sent a rather strange contraption called the Spin Gym!

Now to be honest I was really sure on how this was going to work and it did remind me of one of those optical illusion toys that I had as a kid with the card in the middle and a bird on one side and a cage on the other, you know the ones I mean

OK! But What Does It Do?

The Spin Gym is a handy new gadget that with a little practise and a daily 5 minute workout it can effectively strengthen and tone your upper body muscles, such as your arms, shoulders, back and your chest.

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It always seems when election season rolls around, we are hit with invective about wasteful government spending, which is something many Americans seem to want. A consistent target of these attacks is medical research, which is bowdlerized and misrepresented in order to appeal to the public’s sense of outrage that money is being spent on ridiculous lab tests that bear no importance for society at large.

The image painted by politicians and their followers is such that scientists are bored nerds conducting bogus experiments in university labs on Uncle Sam’s dime. It’s a caricature and shows just how out of touch many people are with science as a profession.

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We’re in denial. You, me, your friends and neighbours, all of us are in denial. We know that junk food is calorific but we assuage our guilty feelings by inventing clauses whereby the calories don’t count: It doesn’t count if it’s a Friday night; It doesn’t count because it’s just this once; It doesn’t count because it’s probably not as rich as a different brand…

One of those excuses is about to be eliminated, maybe to your advantage, maybe not. The change is this, fast food restaurants are going to be required to give dietary information on the products they serve so that you DO know how many calories are in that burger and fries. So now you’ll know if you really can’t eat it or if it’s ok, given that you’ve been good the rest of the week. (You have been good, haven’t you?)
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Did you ever think that your cell phone and the means to use it could end up killing you?

According to a recent warning from a group of trade activists, residing in close proximity to cellphone towers could end up leading to such horrific outcomes as melting your brain, saddling you with cancer or even worse, neutering your reproductive organs. If that’s the case, are you ready to go back to a land line?

In an interview with FoxNews.com, Dr. Robin Bernhoft, president of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM), warned that individuals living close to cell towers and antennas are in danger of becoming sick.

Whitney Seymour, a member of the activist Web site Citizens for Health, adds that the FCC standards regarding cell transmission antennas were structured on previous studies formed nearly 20 years ago using data even before that time.

So, is it time to ditch the cell phone and pack up the family if you’ve got a cell tower within eye sight of your home? Not so fast proclaim many in the cell phone industry.

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