Sunday, September 2, 2012

FOXNews.com: Fruit company IDs products in recall of mangoes due to salmonella risk

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Fruit company IDs products in recall of mangoes due to salmonella risk
Sep 2nd 2012, 17:01

A New Jersey produce company recalled a number of products distributed in the Northeast that contained fresh-cut mangoes Saturday because of potential salmonella contamination.

The products in question have an expiration date of Aug. 28, but the company, F&S Produce Co. Inc., working with the Food and Drug Administration, issued the voluntary recall regardless.

No illnesses have been reporting in relation to products from F&S Produce, of Rosenhayn, N.J. Federal health officials are investigating 103 known cases of salmonella infection not related to the recall Saturday.

The measure follows a recall by Splendid Products of five lots of mangoes imported from Mexico. The mangoes carry the Daniella brand sticker. Health officials in the U.S. and Canada are trying to figure out which brands or sources of mangoes caused the illnesses with other products. No deaths have been reported.

F&S said that products with mangoes that fall under the recall were distributed to grocery and convenience stores in the Northeast. The mangoes, which were processed between Aug. 9 and Aug. 19, used mangoes sourced from Mexico that are part of a current salmonella outbreak.

"Products produced with use-by or sell-By dates of August 29 or later, have been processed using mangoes sourced from Brazil, and are not associated with this recall," the company said in a statement.

F&S Produce notified customers who received the recalled products directly and requested that they be pulled from store shelves.

Following are products recalled by F&S Produce by label, all with an expiration date of Aug. 28, unless otherwise noted:

Delish!: Mango Spears 5 ounce Cantaloupe; Mango, Pineapple Spears 5 ounce; Fruit Burst 10 ounce; Tropical Medley 10 ounce; Mango and Berry Mix 10 ounce; Mango Spears 1 lb.

Garden Highway: Mango Medley 1 lb.; Tropical Mango Spinach Salad 7 ounce.

Garden Pure: Mango Chunks 5 lb.; Mango 9 ounce ; Fruit Medley 3 lb.; Seasonal Fruit Bowl 4 lb.

Signature CafDe: Fruit Basket Medley 30 ounce.

Trader Joe's: Tropical Fruit Medley 1 lb.

Generic Label, sold at Walmart (expiration date Aug. 25): Mango Spears 1 lb.

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FOXNews.com: Preventing pain from heavy backbacks

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Preventing pain from heavy backbacks
Sep 2nd 2012, 10:00

The school year has just started, but 16-year-old Isabella Artale, from New York, NY, is already suffering from neck and back pain, thanks to her overstuffed backpack.

"It's like pulling at your muscles," Isabella said.  "It's like you're being pushed back, but you're trying to go forward at the same time.  My back's hurting – it's a lot of weight to carry."

Dr. Jeff Goldstein, director of The Spine Service Division at New York University Medical Center, said parents would be surprised by the average weight of backpacks.

"We have recommendations of about 10 to 15 percent of your body weight," Goldstein said. "So if your child is 100 pounds, that means [there should be] 10 to 15 pounds of weight in the backpack."

However, Isabella said she normally carries around 20 to 25 pounds of weight in her backpack.  According to Goldstein, that's double the weight she should be carrying.

Goldstein said this can cause muscle problems for her – and other students like her – because teenagers are still developing.

"If they walk around hunched over or slouched over, they develop poor posture…and pain in their neck," Goldstein said. "Could it lead to degenerative changes? I suppose it could."

He added the pain could also make it harder for students to concentrate in school and at home.

To prevent back pain, Goldstein recommended the following:

-Make sure the backpack has wide, padded shoulder straps

-Tighten the straps so the bag is close to the body

-Wear backpack straps on both shoulders

-Remove unnecessary items that could add excess weight

Students can also consider alternatives – like buying backpacks with wheels, keeping an extra set of textbooks at home or even investing in 'new' technology.

One program, called Course Smart, allows students to access their textbooks from any computer, with options to print, highlight and search content.  There is even an app so students can gain access to their books on iPads or other mobile devices.

For more information, visit CourseSmart.com.

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FOXNews.com: Medical tests you shouldn't skip

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Medical tests you shouldn't skip
Sep 2nd 2012, 11:00

Blood tests, throat cultures, EKGs, ultrasounds... A doctor's visit these days can be filled with medical tests. Some are useful; others may just lead to more tests and treatments that, at best, waste time and money—and, at worst, can even be harmful. In fact, in April, nine major medical groups released a report called Choosing Wisely that urged doctors and patients to think twice before scheduling unnecessary tests.

"Most often a skilled physician, by taking a careful history and physical exam, has a good idea of what is going on," says Dr. Glen Stream, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians. But, in certain situations, he adds, testing can help confirm a tricky diagnosis or determine the course of treatment.

Read on for the symptoms that should trigger a test from your doctor—plus, a guide to cancer screening, routine checkups, and other tests you truly need.

If your symptoms includepain or burning during urination, funky-smelling or cloudy urine, or pelvic pain

You should get... a test for a urinary tract infection (UTI)

A simple urine-dip test in the doctor's office can confirm infection, but a more extensive urine culture is often required to determine exactly which bacteria are causing the problem. 

"Different bacteria are resistant to certain antibiotics, so make sure your doctor does the extra test to help guide him to the correct treatment," Stream says.
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If your symptoms include... light-headedness, pale-looking skin, and fatigue, especially if you also have heavy bleeding during your period

You should get... a blood test for anemia (low red blood cells)

Women of reproductive age are especially prone to iron-deficiency anemia, often due to blood loss from menstruation, Stream says.

By checking your blood count, your doctor can assess if the condition is serious enough to warrant treatment, which could include anything from taking supplements to managing your period with hormonal birth control, or, if you have an extremely heavy menstrual flow and aren't planning on becoming pregnant, endometrial ablation (scraping of the uterine lining).

If your symptoms include... pain or tenderness in your abdomen

You should get... a pelvic ultrasound

While doctors are generally cautious about referring patients for expensive imaging tests, an ultrasound is the best way to check for problems such as uterine fibroids, ectopic pregnancy, or ovarian cysts. "An ultrasound is noninvasive, not too costly, and has few side effects," says Dr. David W. Lee, a family physician in Lorton, Va.

If your symptoms include... rash, fatigue, chills, or unexplained muscle and joint pain

You should get... a blood test for Lyme disease

Yes, you can have Lyme even if you don't get the characteristic bull's-eye rash (20 to 30 percent of those infected don't). The disease—spread by tick bites—has symptoms that can overlap with other conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis, so testing is important to confirm the diagnosis, explains Dr. Deborah Horwitz, a doctor of internal medicine in Bethesda, Md.

However, the earlier Lyme is treated, the better (and leaving it untreated can lead to serious complications), Horwitz adds. So if you've been bitten by a tick and come in with classic symptoms, your doctor should start treating you right away (typically with a 14- to 21-day course of antibiotics), even before the test result comes back.

If your symptoms include... fatigue, constipation, unexplained weight gain or loss, or unusually dry or unusually oily skin

You should get... a thyroid function blood test

"Women are more prone to diseases of the thyroid, which controls metabolism," Stream says. If you're in your 40s or 50s and show up at the doctor's office complaining of fatigue and weight gain or loss, thyroid problems should be at the top of his or her list of possible diagnoses, Lee says.

A blood test to measure your levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH, which is produced by the pituitary gland) and the thyroid hormones T3 and T4 can confirm whether you have an underactive thyroid (hypothyroidism), which typically leads to sluggishness and other side effects, or an overactive thyroid (hyperthyroidism), which can lead to weight loss, palpitations, and other effects of overstimulation.

If your symptoms include... fever, sore throat, difficulty swallowing

You should get... a strep test

"Even the most experienced doctors often have trouble distinguishing strep throat, which is a bacterial infection, from many viral infections that look identical," Stream says. A rapid test with a throat swab can be done in your doctor's office in minutes, but the test misses about five percent of strep infections, so you should request that she also send a throat culture to a lab just to be sure.

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FOXNews.com: 7 muscle-building tips

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7 muscle-building tips
Sep 2nd 2012, 11:00

Maybe you've had sand kicked in your face. Maybe you've lost one too many attainable women to beefier guys. Or maybe you've read so much about weight loss that actually admitting you want to gain weight is a societal taboo. Whatever the reason, you want to bulk up. Now.

But forget about your alleged high-revving metabolism, says Doug Kalman, R.D., director of nutrition at Miami Research Associates. 

"Most lean men who can't gain muscle weight are simply eating and exercising the wrong way," he says.

Here's your fix: Follow these 10 principles to pack on as much as a pound of muscle each week.

1. Maximize muscle building. The more protein your body stores—in a process called protein synthesis—the larger your muscles grow. But your body is constantly draining its protein reserves for other uses—making hormones, for instance. The result is less protein available for muscle building. 

To counteract that, you need to "build and store new proteins faster than your body breaks down old proteins," says Michael Houston, a professor of nutrition at Virginia Tech University. 

As for when to eat it and what kind you need?

2. Eat meat. Shoot for about one gram of protein per pound of body weight, which is roughly the maximum amount your body can use in a day, according to a landmark study in the Journal of Applied Physiology. (For example, a 160-pound man should consume 160 grams of protein a day—the amount he'd get from an eight-ounce chicken breast, one cup of cottage cheese, a roast-beef sandwich, two eggs, a glass of milk, and two ounces of peanuts.) Split the rest of your daily calories equally between carbohydrates and fats.

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3. Eat more. In addition to adequate protein, you need more calories. Use the following formula to calculate the number you need to take in daily to gain 1 pound a week. (Give yourself two weeks for results to show up on the bathroom scale. If you haven't gained by then, increase your calories by 500 a day).

A. Your weight in pounds: _____

B. Multiply A by 12 to get your basic calorie needs: _____

C. Multiply B by 1.6 to estimate your resting metabolic rate (calorie burn without factoring in exercise)_____

D. Strength training: Multiply the number of minutes you lift weights per week by 5: _____

E. Aerobic training: Multiply the number of minutes per week that you run, cycle, and play sports by 8: _____

F. Add D and E, and divide by 7: _____

G. Add C and F to get your daily calorie needs: _____

H. Add 500 to G: _____. This is your estimated daily calorie needs to gain 1 pound a week.

4. Work your biggest muscles. If you're a beginner, just about any workout will be intense enough to increase protein synthesis. But if you've been lifting for a while, you'll build the most muscle quickest if you focus on the large muscle groups, like the chest, back, and legs. Add squats, deadlifts, pullups, bent-over rows, bench presses, dips, and military presses to your workout. Do two or three sets of eight to 12 repetitions, with about 60 seconds' rest between sets. 

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5. But first, have a stiff drink. A 2001 study at the University of Texas found that lifters who drank a shake containing amino acids and carbohydrates before working out increased their protein synthesis more than lifters who drank the same shake after exercising. The shake contained six grams of essential amino acids—the muscle-building blocks of protein—and 35 grams of carbohydrates. 

"Since exercise increases bloodflow to your working tissues, drinking a carbohydrate-protein mixture before your workout may lead to greater uptake of the amino acids in your muscles," says Kevin Tipton,  an exercise and nutrition researcher at the University of Texas in Galveston.

For your shake, you'll need about 10 to 20 grams of protein—usually about one scoop of a whey-protein powder.  Can't stomach protein drinks? You can get the same nutrients from a sandwich made with four  ounces of deli turkey and a slice of American cheese on whole wheat bread. But a drink is better. 

"Liquid meals are absorbed faster," says Kalman. So tough it out. Drink one 30 to 60 minutes before your workout.

6. Lift every other day. Do a full-body workout followed by a day of rest. Studies show that a challenging weight workout increases protein synthesis for up to 48 hours immediately after your exercise session. "Your muscles grow when you're resting, not when you're working out," says Michael Mejia, a certified strength and conditioning specialists, and Men's Health exercise advisor. Mejia is a former skinny guy who packed on 40 pounds of muscle using this very program.

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7. Down the carbs after your workout. Research shows that you'll rebuild muscle faster on your rest days if you feed your body carbohydrates. 

"Post-workout meals with carbs increase your insulin levels," which, in turn, slows the rate of protein breakdown, says Kalman. Have a banana, a sports drink, or a peanut-butter sandwich.

Click here for all 10 muscle-building tips from Men's Health.
 


 

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FOXNews.com: 10 ways to upgrade your skin

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10 ways to upgrade your skin
Sep 2nd 2012, 10:00

Using the same old plays to maintain your skin guarantees a losing season. Huddle up, men, and listen good, because your skin is your body's best defense against a world bent on breaking through. This season you need a better playbook for defensive grooming to ensure success on and off the field. Here are your 10 ways to upgrade your skin.

Shave With An Electric Razor

To save your skin from irritation, try an electric shaver that gets as good a shave, while keeping your skin soft, supple and refreshed. The Norelco PowerTouch is equipped with an Aquatech seal for both a dry and wet shave, a unique function among electric razors, preserving your skin's natural suppleness, while refreshing your face. The device enhances your appearance while gliding over your jawline and other sensitive areas prone to cuts.

Balance Your Diet

This is a multifaceted play that will take some practice before you get it right, so let's break it down. First, drink less diuretics. Aside from dehydrating you and making you feel panicked most of the day, diuretics like pop also contribute to sleepless nights and anxiety, which are never good for you or your skin.

Second, choose a salad instead of fries. It's this simple: Poor circulation means poor skin. If your blood can flow freely, then all the oxygen and nutrients you take in will move to your skin and other organs more efficiently. Fried foods slow down circulation and result in pale, grungy skin.

Third, eat less meat. It takes a long time to digest, and while you still need protein, you also need to up your fruits and vegetables intake. Fruits with plenty of water help to hydrate you and provide nutrients. Vegetables, while nutritious, also help to clean your digestive tract of toxins, which ultimately make their way to your skin and the rest of your organs. A healthy diet prevents this from occurring. Now, put all of these in motion, and you have an unstoppable defensive line.

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Exfoliate Every Other Day

Shaving helps to exfoliate your beard areas, but you still have to worry about your nose, forehead and the skin behind your ears and along your neck. These areas and those you shave should be exfoliated every other day in the shower to scruff away dead skin cells and clean clogged pores. Think of exfoliating as the defensive audible play you call when you know your skin has had a rough couple of days.

Apply An Aftershave Balm With A Moisturizer

Yes, your dad and grandfather used an abrasive aftershave that stung. Even your uncles might swear by it, but they also played with leather helmets and no face masks. Nothing should sting after you shave, and if it does, then you've done something wrong. Using a moisturizing aftershave balm is the play you call right after a great shave.

Use Sunscreen

Get this through your head now: You need sunscreen all year. Even if you already have a tan, you still need it to protect the deeper layers of your skin. How much you use and where you put it depends on the offensive positions of the sun and weather.

Exercise

Getting your blood flowing around your body is beneficial for your entire being, but your skin will literally come alive when it gets fresh oxygen quickly. Even if you can't get to the gym every few days, a quick walk every day will do you good. Just put some hustle into it like it's the last play of the game.

Take A Nap

The "sleeper" play is simple and easy. Sleep is the most underrated tactic in maintaining healthy skin. You might be sleeping, but your skin is slowly regrouping for the next challenge. Don't let yourself become sleep deprived. Take a nap if you need one. You'll have to work on this without feeling like you should be doing something else.

Wash Your Face Daily

Wash your face with a cleanser when you shower and again before going to sleep at night. Keeping your skin clean and hydrated should be a daily habit. If traveling, be sure to wash after long-haul flights once you have landed. It may be a simple play, but the good ones usually are.

Drink More Water

Between plays, you have to stay hydrated from the inside out, which makes drinking water a play all its own. Even when you're on the go, you need to drink water. Of course, sometimes we'd just rather have something else instead of paying for another plastic bottle of "spring" water, so invest in a bottle with a built-in filter. The water will taste better, and it's better for you.

Use A Face And Body Wash

Like it or not, you can't keep using your girlfriend's or wife's facial products on the sly. Your skin is different, and this is no joke. You sweat differently, and your pores are larger, so you trap more dirt and pollution with your skin than she ever will. Get your daily grooming drills in order with a face and body wash made for you. This is a preseason play that works all year. You have to use a face and body wash every day, no exceptions.

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Saturday, September 1, 2012

FOXNews.com: Prenatal yoga: Helps relieve pain, increases endurance

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Prenatal yoga: Helps relieve pain, increases endurance
Sep 1st 2012, 11:00

Gone are the days when pregnancy meant becoming a couch potato.  Today, many doctors and health professionals are encouraging women to work out throughout their pregnancy.  

But what exercises are safe?  One form of exercise that is favored by some medical experts and some of Hollywood's newest moms (think, January Jones, Hilary Duff and Pink) is prenatal yoga.  

"Yoga during pregnancy helps a woman increase her strength and flexibility, even as her body goes through the dramatic changes of pregnancy" says Mary Barnes, director and owner at Yoga for Two in New York.  The postures yoga offers may also prepare women for childbirth and help relieve discomforts, such as back pain and swollen ankles.  

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If building strength and relieving pregnancy discomforts isn't enough motivation, what about increasing pain tolerance?  As yoga focuses on lengthening the breath, this creates endurance, calms the mind and can increase a woman's pain threshold during labor.  

But what if you are pregnant and new to yoga?  

While it is often not recommended to begin a new exercise regiment during pregnancy, prenatal yoga is an exception.

"Starting a yoga practice during pregnancy can be a great way to bond with your baby," said Amanda Schlesinger, who is certified to teach prenatal yoga and teaches privately in New York City.  

While experienced yogis may continue attending their regular yoga classes, making necessary modifications, those who are new to yoga should attend a prenatal yoga class.

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"The sequences are modified for the pregnant body, and class sizes tend to be smaller so the instructor can offer more individualized attention," Schlesinger said.   

Here are some beneficial prenatal yoga positions:  

1. Transverse abdominal strengthening. With your abdominal muscles, hug the baby to the spine and count to 30.  Also slow, repeated pulses back toward the spine.  Barnes explained that this may prevent the abs from atrophying throughout pregnancy, often eliminates diastisis recti (separation of the abdominal muscles). It also helps women push during birth and regain abdominal strength post-partum.  

2. Kegals. Schlesinger recommended daily kegals, as they tone and strengthen the pelvic floor and support the growing uterus.

3. Pigeon pose. Begin in downward facing dog and bring your right knee towards your right wrist while angling your right shin under your torso.  Slide left leg back and lower the outside of your right buttock to the floor. Repeat on other side.  Schlesinger said this offers a great release due to the natural external rotation of the legs as the uterus and belly expand which may cause tightening of the piriformis muscle (lower glutes).

4. Standing poses to strengthen legs and gluteals. 
• Virabadrasana I (Warrior I): From standing position, bring one leg back four feet.  Turn back foot to 45 degree angle and keep back leg straight while keeping front foot straight and bend front knee 90 degrees.  Extend arms perpendicular to floor and parallel to each other.  

• Virabadrasana II (Warrior II): From standing position, bring one leg back four feet.  Turn back foot out 90 degrees, and keep back leg straight while keeping front foot straight forward and bend front knee 90 degrees.  Extend arms parallel to floor.  

• Squats: Barnes said that later in pregnancy squatting helps the baby descend into the pelvis, and it's a good position ultimately to use during the pushing stage of childbirth.  However, this should not be done if the baby is in a breech position.  

Here are some poses to avoid (or modify). 

1. Deep abdominal twists, which puts too much pressure on the uterus.

2. Deep back bends, such as "wheel pose." This may cause the abdominal wall to separate.

3. Prone positions (lying on your back): According to the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) pregnant women may lay on their back until 20 weeks.  Afterwards, the uterus puts extra pressure on the vena cava, a vein located on the right side of the body that, when compressed, decreases blood flow back to the heart.  A semi-prone position may be used instead; elevate your back on an incline using two blocks and a bolster lying diagonally on top.

Laura Kovall, a former TV producer, is currently the editor of Baby Bump Fit Tips on Mizzfit.com. Baby Bump Fit Tips is a resource for pregnant women and new moms who crave an active, stylish and healthy lifestyle. Follow Laura's journey at http://mizzfit.com/baby-bump-fit-tips//   

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FOXNews.com: Surprising reasons you're not losing weight

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Surprising reasons you're not losing weight
Sep 1st 2012, 10:00

You've been walking the straight and narrow—counting calories, working out—and yet you're not dropping pounds. What gives? The answer may be hiding out amid the random things you do over the course of an average day—those little habits that have seemingly no connection to weight loss, but may in fact be sabotaging your best get-fit efforts.

Ask yourself these questions, and if you answer yes to any of them, you may have found your personal diet defeaters. Outwit them and you'll soon be back on track to a leaner, fitter you.

Do you always eat "healthy"?
A funny thing happens when you focus on making careful diet decisions. If you just "think" of your meal as a light choice, it can cause your brain to make more of the hormone ghrelin, reports a study from Yale University.

"More ghrelin makes you feel less full and signals your metabolism to slow down," says study author Alia Crum. To keep your ghrelin balanced, focus on the more indulgent parts of your meal—say, the nuts and cheese on your salad, rather than the lettuce.

It also helps to pick foods that are both healthy and seem like a treat, like a warm bowl of soup with crusty whole-grain bread.

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Do you pay with plastic?
Carrying cash may feel a little last century, but people who use a credit card when grocery shopping buy significantly more unhealthy, calorie-dense food than people who pay cash, according to a study in the Journal of Consumer Research.

Junk-food buyers were perfectly aware of the extra calories and cost of those treats, but since they didn't feel the immediate hit in the wallet, they gave in more easily to impulse buys, explains study co-author Kalpesh Desai, associate professor of marketing at Binghamton University.

Do you think about exercise a lot?
There's a downside to that, says a new French study: Simply thinking about exercise can cause you to eat 50 percent more. Why? People assume that the upcoming workout gives them license to snack.

Avoid excessive munching with a pre-gym snack of no more than 150 calories, advises Keri Glassman, author of The Snack Factor Diet. Try two slices of turkey with whole-grain crackers.

Are you laser-focused at work?
Sit for just a few hours and your body stops making a fat-inhibiting enzyme called lipase, researchers at the University of Missouri–Columbia found.

Stand and stretch every hour, and you'll boost your metabolism by about 13 percent, says research published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Or, fidget all day (tap your feet or bounce in your chair) and increase calorie burn by 54 percent.

Do you sleep too little?
"Not enough shut-eye puts your body into a carb- and fat-craving survival mode," says Michael Breus, author of The Sleep Doctor's Diet Plan. A study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that women who slept fewer than four hours ate 300 more calories and 21 more grams of fat the next day.

Try this to gauge your sleep needs: For a week, go to bed seven and a half hours before you need to get up. If you awaken before the alarm, you can get by with less sleep. But if you hit snooze, you may need eight, even nine, hours a night to wake up refreshed, recharged, and ready to burn some fat.

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