Olivia Wilde water lover

Actress Olivia Wilde loves water....

...because it allows her to eat 'whatever the hell' she wants. The beautiful young actress from The OC and House MD said, "I always figure I always eat whatever the hell I want, but only if I'm drinking tons of water. If I miss lunch, I'm dangerous. I also love avocados. I feel like I always have avocados at my house. For me, they're nature's gift."



Olivia Wilde is a blonde who turned brunette; she played a bisexual bartender on The OC (above photo) and is a bisexual doctor on House.



Olivia Wilde is mostly vegetarian and promotes an organic lifestyle, she sometimes eats fish.



The 5'7½" tall Olivia Wilde is a dog lover and takes her bulldog Lola (left) and a mutt Paco (right) for a walk. She also goes hiking with them and her Italian husband Tao Ruspoli.



Olivia has done some Karate and Yoga, but for her fitness she does spinning. "I do enjoy exercise, but I'm not a very disciplined person. I like spinning, which is kind of embarrassing." But Wilde agrees that "You can burn nearly 800 calories in, like, 45 minutes if you push it to the highest level." For the action movie Tron Legacy, Olivia Wilde had to workout extra hard to fit into a tight little rubber cat suit.

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Mila Kunis substance

Actress Mila Kunis from the TV show Family Guy and the new movie Extract, is featured on the cover of the September issue of Women's Health. Kunis tells the magazine that her seven-year relationship with Macaulay Culkin is the steady rock in her life.

But what gives substance to Mila Kunis' life is her acting career; the pretty actress who was number five on the Maxim Hot 100 beautiful girls of 2009 says, "You've got to base your career on something other than being FHM's top 100 No. 1 girl. Your looks are going to die out, and then what's going to be left?"



The cute girl from the country of Ukraine became famous with the comedy series, That '70s Show, and the comedy movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Mila Kunis is only 26 and does not watch her diet: "I love food and I eat like a pig. I love going to different restaurants."

Mila Kunis is 5'3" tall and petite; she started doing Pilates for the many bikini scenes in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and went through a SWAT test for Max Payne with Mark Wahlberg. In the new drama Black Swan she put her body through punishing routines to look graceful as a ballet dancer: "Picking up ballet at the age of 26 is not a walk in the park. Your body doesn't want to do what it hasn't been trained to do your whole life. Your posture, your whole body language is going to be wrong because the muscle memory isn't there. Yet!"



Mila Kunis is an actress with substance; in this new movie she is rumored to have a lesbian love scene with co-star Natalie Portman. Although Mila says she won't "confirm or deny" these rumors, she has previously done similar lesbian scenes in After Sex with pretty Zoe Saldana: "My partner in crime was beautiful and gorgeous and a sweetheart. So it wasn't that hard to pretend I was attracted to this person. To be honest, it was pretty damn easy."

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Lauren Conrad digital

Her novel may have been named "LA Candy" but reality TV star Lauren Conrad prefers a diet of watermelon, organic salad greens, and tuna, to keep her body in shape.

And speaking of shape, Lauren Conrad's body appeared on the cover of the September issue of Shape magazine. The chiselled abs and skinny figure led to speculation that the photos had digital alterations.

But we know that every magazine photo is digitally altered and so while Lauren Conrad may be pretty and have a nice figure, there's no way she looks like that in real life!



The 5'5" tall Lauren says she got a little "soft around the middle" early in her romance with actor Kyle Howard. "We were having more romantic dinners out, and I was exercising less." Conrad solved the problem by taking her man along on her exercises. "We like doing outdoor stuff: tennis, bike riding, kayaking, surfing, hiking. "It's more fun than hitting the gym alone."

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Fewer smokers quitting

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The introduction of a ban on smoking in public places since July 1, 2007, is expected to increase the number of smokers quitting in England. Despite increased spending by the NHS per smoker, up £46 from 2007-08, 337,054 people successfully quit smoking in 2008-09 (based on a four-week follow-up). This was a decrease of 4% on the 350,800 smokers quitting in 2007-08. The figures also showed that only around half of pregnant women, using NHS stop smoking services, manage to quit smoking.

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Ana Ivanovic body

Serbian tennis player Ana Ivanovic may have parted company with her fitness trainer Scott Byrnes, who helped maintain her strength and conditioning, but Ana's body is still one of the fittest in women's tennis.



Ana Ivanovic with a milk mustache as part of the Got Milk? campaign, which encourages people to drink cow's milk for health. Ana Ivanovic follows a strict diet and exercise routine, both in the off-season and while playing on the tennis circuit:





Ana Ivanovic's body looks good on the beach. The former world number one is 6'1" tall, weighs 152 pounds, but had weight gain issues as a teenager. "When I was sixteen, I had a little baby fat," she told Vogue. "But in the last three years, I have worked really hard to change that."



The 21-year old athlete posed for FHM UK last year. Ana Ivanovic told the men's magazine: "I don't really drink. I mean, I'll have a glass of red wine or an occasional margarita. But I've never been properly drunk."



Ana Ivanovic at the Ralph Lauren-Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Pre-Wimbledon Party in Ascot, wearing a black and gold Dolce & Gabbana dress. Fashion and a beautiful body are part of the women's tennis circuit, as Ivanovic told GQ UK: "Your fashion, your game - everyone compares everything these days." But sometimes fashion is for a good cause. Ana has an exclusive line of limited edition adidas t-shirts to benefit UNICEF's School Without Violence program.

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Emma Watson no looking back

Emma Watson is moving on from the Harry Potter franchise though with sadness: "I will be uncontrollable. It's been half of our lives. It's made us, it's formed us. It's such a big part of my life, so it will be really sad - and so much of the crew who have been there since the beginning are like my family."



Emma Watson all grown up in Elle UK. There's no looking back for the British actress who lived with her mother all along, as she seeks to grow individually away from the spotlight at Brown University in the US.



Emma Watson in a bikini enjoying the sun at Ibiza. "I don't think it's very pretty to be really, really skinny," Emma who wears size 8 (UK), told the Daily Star. "It's not inspirational at all for me. Even if I wanted to be that skinny, I love food and I love cooking and I love sitting down and having nice meals, so it just wouldn't be possible for me."

Watson has said before that she loves Spanish and French food. Emma also likes her chocolate and "I make lots of pastas and bake a great raspberry amaretto cake."



Emma Watson has always been a role model for teenage girls, with her love of sports, refusal to diet, and no drugs or excessive drinking. Now she's a young woman, there's no looking back for her, but she has her head on her shoulders and will continue to inspire other women of her generation!

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Female boxing in the Olympics

The Women's World Amateur Championships of boxing are eight years old. Boxing was the only Olympic Sport that did not feature women as well as men. Female boxers have now been given the right to compete for a gold Olympic medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted on August 13 2009 to lift the barrier to the last all-male summer sport. A dream has been realised for the estimated 500,000 women stepping through ropes from Beijing to Buenos Aires. There are 642 women licensed to fight by the Amateur Boxing Association of England, a ten-fold increase in the past four years. Women are voting with their fists. Properly trained and suitably enthused, women boxers are the equal of their male counterparts in desire and technique.



Jane Couch (left) became the first officially licensed British female boxer in 1998 and fought Germany's Simona Lukic (right) that same year (photo: PHIL SHEPHARD-LEWIS Telegraph)

Female boxers are no more or less vulnerable to serious injury from punches than their male counterparts, a position paradoxically reinforced by the British Medical Association, which opposes boxing in males and females on the grounds that it is equally dangerous to both. The only thing in the sport of female boxing is breast injuries, but it is not a common place to get hit and in any case women get to wear breast protectors.

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Teenager with Kyphosis walks tall after operation

14-year old Jessica Stalley was diagnosed with kyphosis at the age of 12. Kyphosis is a disfiguring forward curve in the spine, and it made Jessica look like she was always slumping. Tragically bullies at school (Dame Alice Harpur) made her suffering worse by their insensitive comments: "They used to call me 'humpback' and the 'Hunchback of Notre Dame'," she said. "But I tried to ignore them and be strong and once I was diagnosed I had an answer that silenced their words."

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Doctors at Clementine Churchill Hospital told Jessica that she had the spine of a 70-year old! She was diagnosed with the problem in July 2008 and was given an MRI scan in August, on her 13th birthday. She was then fitted with a back brace by medics in September 2008, but after six months doctors were unhappy with the results and she was booked in for the two operations.

During the first six-and-a-half hour operation in April this year, medics sliced under her left arm and removed a rib, which was used to help prop up her spine. Three days later she was taken from the private hospital bed for more surgery, this time to put four metal rods inside her. Two of the rods were screwed in to the top and bottom of her spine to correct the curving. Medics even had to deflate one of her lungs during the seven-and-a-half hour procedure to avoid any risk of injuring her.



Now Jessica Stalley is walking tall (six inches taller than before), having regained her posture with exercise like walking, and physiotherapy. "It feels strange to walk tall, the doctor didn't think that he'd get me that straight. I'm still in a back brace now, but doctors have told me when it comes off in October I'll be fine and can even start swimming again - I can't wait."

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Resistance bands for strength and toning

Resistance training increases bone strength and muscle fitness. To get these benefits you can train with free weights, workout on machines in a gym, or use you own body weight as resistance. There are only a limited number of exercises using body weight, like push-ups, pull-ups, or squats. And not everyone can afford a gym membership. Resistance bands provide all the benefits of strength training——the "resistance" to the muscle comes from the elasticity in the band as it is stretched.

Resistance bands can be made of latex rubber or non-latex polymers and are very cheap, selling for between $3 to $12, at most sporting goods stores. The better ones will come with a one-year guarantee, have attached handles, and include some type of door anchor attachment. They are also color-coded for different resistance levels. Known alternatively as thera bands, dyna bands, bungies, tubies, or flexi bands, these exercise bands provide resistance training for the full range of body motion. Below Jessica Biel uses resistance bands to work on her shoulders, triceps, and female chest muscles:



Resistance bands were originally used for physical therapy of injured athletes, obese persons, the elderly, and patients of conditions like multiple sclerosis, because they improved blood circulation without any harmful impact on the joints. Since then exercise bands have been used increasingly in sports and fitness training.

Resistance bands provide muscle toning through the body's functional movement. For example American football players increase power and speed by sprinting while being held up by resistance bands. Tennis players increase the power of their serve by replicating that movement on the resistance band. Free weights and machines may exercise the same muscles, but will not be as effective because in improving the muscle's functionality for a particular movement.



Beautiful Marisa Miller works on her biceps, shoulders, and thighs. Resistance bands can be used while standing, sitting, or lying down. While sitting on a chair, put the band behind the chair and straighten both arms to the front, or one arm at a time, holding the handles. This helps in toning the chest muscles, triceps, and shoulders. Wrap the bands around a pole or pillar, then pull back the handles in a rowing motion to workout your back muscles, or twist on the balls of your feet to either side to exercise your core muscles.

What are the downsides of using resistance bands? They wear out over time, and can snap if they are extended beyond their taut capacity. But they are so cheap and portable, and their full motion workouts so superior to free weights, that it makes sense to keep resistance bands at home for adding variety to workouts.

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Beer for bone density

CBS News recycles the many claimed benefits of beer, with the all-important rider that only moderate amounts, one glass (12 ounces) for women and two glasses for men, can give such benefits. Among these benefits of beer is the increase in bone strength: "A study from Tufts School of Nutrition showed beer, either dark or light, protects bone mineral density. Katherine Tucker, associate professor of nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, says the alcoholic beverage has high levels of an ingredient that enables the deposit of calcium and other minerals into bone tissue...

...Scientists point to silicon, which helps absorption of calcium and minerals to make strong bones. People with diets high in silicon, a mineral found in dark beer, had higher bone densities and therefore a lower chance of developing osteoporosis. Excessive drinking, however, can lead to a greater number of bone fractures."

Studies like these have been around for ages. In 2002 specialists at King's College and St Thomas's hospital in London discovered that beer is one of the richest sources of silicon in the modern diet. Silicon exists in the soil and beer gets this mineral from grains like wheat and barley, from which it is fermented. So why can't we get silicon straight from cereal or wholewheat bread? Jonathan Powell, a senior lecturer in nutrition at King's College, explained that silicon is better absorbed from fluids. "Beer does appear to be an important source of silicon and may be especially important given that we now receive a lot less silicon in our diet from drinking water," he explained.

The study also found that non-alcoholic beer was just as rich in silicon as alcoholic beer. Silicon stimulates the formation of collagen, the living material that gives bones their framework, strength and flexibility.



Apart from only one glass of beer for women, another catch was that benefits from absorbing silicon from beer only happens in young women who have not reached menopause. The better way of improving bone strength is to exercise and have a wholesome diet rich in calcium and Vitamin D.

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