This holiday, in the midst of hurried shopping and party preparations, consider stopping a moment and giving of yourself. Donate your long locks to provide wigs for cancer patients and children with hair loss. Read More
Got two minutes? While you’re at your computer, treat yourself to a dose of fitness inspiration—and donate to a good cause at no cost to you!
Brooks (one of my favorite running shoe and apparel companies) is hosting a video on its site; every time it’s clicked on between now and December 21, Brooks will donate five cents to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for the support of breast cancer research.
The video is just the beginning of Brooks’ new commitment to breast cancer research: In March 2009, it’ll debut a line of apparel that donates 12.5% to various charities, and visitors to the Brooks site will be able to vote how much each group should get.
This cute little clip, titled “Dream,” made me want to cut out of work early for a jog through the streets of Manhattan. For anyone else who’s shared the fantasy of a perfect run—you know, where “water bottles grow on trees and no one ever gets sore knees”—I imagine you’ll feel the same way. Watch the video, send it to friends, and get inspired!
Pop quiz: Your alarm goes off at 6 a.m. the morning after a busy day at work, a late-night dinner with friends, and only six hours of sleep. This will be your only time today to fit in a workout, but you really just want to hit snooze. What do you do? Read More
Q: If one slice of bread has mold on it, is it safe to eat another slice from the same loaf?
A: Best to toss the loaf and start fresh. Bread is very porous, so mold can spread quickly and easily, particularly in organic products that don’t contain preservatives. Plus, mold, which has roots, could be thriving below the surface, even after you scrape it off. The same goes for meats, jams, and fruits or vegetables—when you see mold, it’s time to pitch them. (Individual fruit such as strawberries that has come in contact with moldy pieces can simply be washed and eaten. The mold in blue cheese is considered safe, too, unless you’re pregnant.) Eating a tiny amount of moldy bread isn’t likely to cause a serious illness, though it could give you a stomachache. Read More
I tend to think of this weekly fitness blog as being for people who are, well, fit. I take for granted the fact that I’m healthy, active, and able to do things like run and swim without a second thought. But a New York Times article this week reminded me that for people who aren’t so lucky—those who are being treated for or are recovering from cancer—fitness is just as important, if not more. As specialized exercise classes spring up around the country and doctors increasingly encourage their patients to get moving, it’s becoming clear that fitness should be a part of any cancer recovery plan. Read More
Remember those girls who would line their lawn chairs with tin foil to catch rays from all angles? Sometimes they’d even stick their chairs in baby pools to get even more reflected sunlight. That was Julie Lee, now 36, of Toledo, Ohio. “I was trying to achieve the perfect tan,” she remembers. “My mom always used to warn me. But when you’re young, you think you’re invincible.” Read More
Tiffany Wilson, 40, sees a lot of women at the hair salon she owns in Minneapolis—women she’s not afraid to preach to about skin cancer. She is particularly concerned about her many African American friends who think that people of color are immune to skin cancer. Blacks, in fact, are less likely to survive melanoma than whites. And although it’s rare for African Americans to develop nonmelanoma cancer like basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma, Wilson tells her friends it’s not that rare—and she uses herself as an example. Read More
June Corrigan, 50, lives in sun-soaked Palm Desert, Calif., but grew up in sun-starved Montreal. When summer came, she worked as a lifeguard and loved getting a tan. “There was such a limited amount of time to get brown,” she says. “I distinctly remember a sun-kissed complexion was a definite improvement over the pallor from a long, cold winter.” When Corrigan was 25, she moved out west and fell in love with the numerous sunny days. Sunscreen? She rarely bothered. Read More
Heather Armstrong, 32, loves the sun but hates what it’s done to her body. She’s had three basal cell carcinomas—the most common type of skin cancer, with upwards of 1 million new cases every year—and she has the scars to prove it. Read More
Skin cancer in young women is on the rise—and sun damage is the culprit. Find out how four women battled this disease and how you can protect yourself. Read More
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