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- from oprah.com -

—Walking Advice for Busy People

Q: I leave for work too early in the morning and get home too late at night to walk for fitness. Are workout videos as effective as walking?
A: Having your feet hit the ground for 30 minutes every day is as important as making sure your car has tires. So, sure, videos that get you on your feet for 30 minutes are as good as walking. But don't wait until you get a video. Walking around your dining room table or chasing your spouse around the bedroom is effective too!

Q: In your books and columns, you are firm about getting 30 minutes of walking every day, which works out to 210 minutes a week. When I'm super busy, can I stagger days or cut back to 10 minutes, as long as I average 210 minutes a week?
A: Walking turns on genes that apparently require daily activity to stay on. Normally, we hate to give you absolutes when the data aren't perfectly clear—but this case is an exception. We believe that 30 minutes a day is necessary. However, when you're super busy (or just in the mood for quick, short walks), you can break up the time and walk in intervals as small as 10 minutes. Why a total of 30 minutes and intervals no smaller than 10 minutes are the magic numbers is as clear as a window during a snowstorm. We just don't know why, but those times appear to be what it takes to change the way certain genes function.

Q: In terms of burning calories, is 11 minutes of stair climbing equal to 36 minutes of walking?
A: Usually, 36 minutes of walking will burn about 200 calories, whereas 11 minutes of stairs will burn around 100. We say "usually" because the burn rate depends on how fast you walk or do stairs. If you have access to a gym, there's an easy way to find out: Mimic your pace on a treadmill and a stair-climbing machine, and see how many calories you burn in those time periods. While the calorie counters on machines aren't perfect, they'll give you a reasonably accurate idea that's better than guessing.

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- taken from oprah.com - 

But if you seriously think you can save for retirement and support your family while you're in school, here's my strategy: As long as you have a large emergency savings fund that can cover eight months of living expenses, keep investing in a 401(k) if you get a company match. Maybe it can't be 6 percent of your salary next year (that would be $1,200 of $20,000), but even at half that, you would benefit from the company match.

If you don't have an emergency savings fund, or your employer doesn't offer a matching contribution, skip the 401(k) while in school and invest in a Roth IRA . It has no tax or penalty if you dip into your contributions to cover an emergency. Only your Roth earnings would be hit with a tax, plus a 10 percent penalty for an early withdrawal. So your Roth could do double duty: When things go well, it serves as a retirement account; in times of trouble, you can pull out your Roth contributions without tax or penalty. Any money you invest in a Roth should go into low-risk investments, such as a money market fund, CDs, or short-term Treasury bills. Once you're out of school, you can move your investments to stock exchange-traded funds or mutual funds; over the long term, stocks will help you earn inflation-beating gains. Over the short term, they are too volatile to use for a quasi-emergency fund. Good luck!

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-taken from oprah.com- 

Walk or Run a 5K
You are never too old to start moving, and there are hundreds of walks and runs you can participate in this summer to jump-start your healthy lifestyle. Women tend to put others first, so sign up for an event that benefits a charity. You'll feel more purpose and drive to do your best.

Feel Like a Kid Again
Start with slip squats. On a wet surface in your backyard, start with your feet together and slowly slide your leg out to a squat position. The slippery surface requires you to move slowly and control the muscles. Return both feet together and squeeze those inner thighs. Try two to three moves between each child sliding down the runway.

Now, move on to jumping jacks! Take the same movement and add a little hop or speed. Best to hold someone's hands for balance on the first few, so you can slide safely. But isn't it fun playing in the yard?

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I had one cooking assignment for a family in Spain whose 6-year-old son was having some behavioral problems and difficulty concentrating in school. Some tests revealed he was allergic to wheat, dairy products, sugar and tomatoes—ingredients that are staples in almost every child's diet.

What's a parent to do when faced with such a dilemma? Unfortunately, flying in a personal chef for your 6-year-old is not an option for most parents. After a month on his new diet, the child's transformation was dramatic. He became much calmer, and his teachers noted he was focused and paying attention in class—they were so impressed that they started to include healthier options for the other children in the school.

This child is not an exception. Many of the foods that are staples for children are at the root of a host of health and behavioral issues. The question is what to do about it and how to get children not only to tolerate healthy foods, but to want to eat them.

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-copied from oprah.com -

Hot weather is here.

Time to lighten up on clothes. Time for shorts, sleeveless tops, swimsuits.

Translation: Time for bare thighs, bare arms, bare back.

Sigh.

Do you share my friend's dread of summer? If so, I am here to tell you something: What you say to yourself about the shape of your body shapes your feelings about yourself. Be careful what you tell yourself, because you will believe it. Be sure you're telling the whole truth. Be sure you're letting yourself see the whole truth.

Let me explain.

During one particularly crazy year of my 20s, I decided that I was going to be cliff-hanger thin. I'd had it with being fat. Had it with the multiple folds in my thighs and the upper-arm fat that almost reached the muffin top above my waist. Had it with hating myself for being overweight. So I followed the program in a book someone gave me. On what I called the Breatharian Diet, I ate 150 calories a day (raw vegetables only), jogged 4 miles every evening and fasted on water for three weeks at the turn of each season. The ultimate goal was to detoxify and purify my body to the point where it would no longer need food. Instead, I would be able to eat sunlight, drink silence and metabolize air. (I told you I was crazy that year. You probably thought I was exaggerating.) Truthfully, I wasn't so interested in the clear or pure part. I figured that anyone who ate sunlight and drank silence was going to be thin. Very, very thin.

I was right. I lost a lot of weight—quickly. I got down to 80 pounds, wore a size 0 and was finally as thin as anyone could dream of. At least, that's what my friends said. But here's the catch: When I looked at myself, I saw the same body I'd always seen—the thunder thighs, the sagging arms, the moon face. Whether my body weighed 80 pounds or 180, to me, it always seemed fat.

If you look at the world through shattered glasses, the world looks shattered. If you look at your body through "fat eyes," you see fat everywhere. To change how you see yourself, you must change the eyes with which you see.

You're probably thinking, "Yeah, right, now what about all my cellulite?" Well, what about it? It's there. You're not perfect—so what?

Being well is different from being perfect. It's important to take care of yourself, to eat in a way that gives you the energy to live your life exactly as you want to live it. But being well isn't the same as being thin. This is important: You can be well—yes, you can be happy—even if, in short sleeves, your arms don't look anything like Madonna's.