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November 30, 2008 - December 6, 2008 Archives

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'Localvores' celebrate nutrition, flavor in Pawtucket

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By Tom Meade    Email

Hundreds of "localvores," peole who love local foods, packed a long corridor at Hope Artiste Village in Pawtucket today for the debut of the winter indoor farmers market. Localvores know that local food is fresher, and, therefore, more nutritious and......

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 Tags  farmers markets   local food   nutrition  

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Want to live to be 90? This guru shows how he did it

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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

Ever wonder what it takes to live to be 90? How about looking at the example of a man who was diagnosed with malaria, typhoid and tuberculosis as a child, and after finding yoga at age 16, transformed his......

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 Tags  90th   Iyengar   Patricia Walden   props  

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Bird watchers set for Christmas Bird Count

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By Tom Meade    Email

Audubon photos Get some exercise outdoors as you join bird watchers from Alaska to Belize looking for birds this holiday season. The longest running Citizen Science event in the world, Audubon's annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC) will take place......

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 Tags  Audubon   Christmas Bird Count   outdoors erercise  

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Before laptops, 'hot thighs' were a good thing

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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

KRT photo Tony Skipper (from left), Cathy Elliman and Gina Olivetti perform leg exercises with exercise balls during Guy Osborne's boot camp in South Carolina. One of the biggest complaints women have about their bodies is often their thighs: Hormones......

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 Tags  buttocks   exercise balls   leg exercises   thighs  

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Winter bike commuting: Women's Adventure has tips

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By Tom Meade    Email

There is no such thing as inappropriate weather for hikiking, biking or paddling. Only inappropriate apparel. Messengers ride bikes through the winter. Anyone can, including commuters. In her online story about winter bike commuting, "How to brave the wettest, coldest......

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 Tags  cycling   winter commuting   Women's Adventure magazine  

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Hunting season: Are you ready to walk in the woods?

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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

OK, maybe there aren't as many hunters around in Rhode Island as there are in other parts of the country. But today is the first day of buck season in my home state of Pennsylvania: a holiday: my old......

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 Tags  conditioning   deer hunting   walk   woods  

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Video: After Thanksgiving marathon workout in W. Warwick

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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

Providence Journal video by Gretchen Ertl For all those in need of exercise after Thanksgiving excess, Tammy Whitehead, manager of American Health Fitness Center in West Warwick, provides a hard workout to the sounds of Christmas, as well as......

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 Tags  American Health Fitness Center   Class   Thanksgiving   video   West Warwick  

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