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Excess pounds boost cancer risk, a study inThe Lancetshows. As if you need an excuse! Researchers have discovered a compound in dark chocolate that fights fast-growing cancers such as colorectal cancer. The finding could even lead to adding chocolate to current cancer treatments. Tame tension with this formula from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Healthy Lifestyle Program:1. Take deep belly breaths. You slow and elongate brain waves, bringing on calm....

What drives her to keep taking risks? Says Fey, “I hear my instinct, then follow it.” She has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Children’s Defense Fund. “No one can do it alone.” In a world where stars seem to make a point of behaving badly, how refreshing is that? Perhaps that’s because of what Andrea Jung, 50, learned from her father and her mother. Clearly, Jung listened....

For Emily White, it felt like the worst flu ever. It was in the spring of 2006, and White was pushing through her final term at college. Sure, she was stressed and run-down. But she just didn’t understand how her symptoms could be so intense. She was exhausted, yet sleep was impossible. This didn’t feel like run-of-the-mill anxiety, though. It was something physical. All over her bodythroat, armpits, groinher lymph nodes swelled up, and she ran a fever....

Have you always been such an underachiever? [Laughs]You sound like my husband! Is it just in your nature?Yeah, I think I’ve always had a lot of energy. On the way over here today I was thinking, Why do I still want so much more? Because I’m so happy and I am so fulfilled. But there is that part…it’s just a mechanism I was born with. I just do want to accomplish more, and I don’t really know exactly what it is....

Sprint to bust your bellyOnly fat-dissolving cardio (and cutting calories) can get rid of ab flab. The workout that targets the overhang: interval training. Add speed bursts to any exercisehorseback riding, belly dancing or downhill skiingand beat the bulge! “Abs are used to constant tension when we sit or stand. Set a stability ball at the small of your back. The ball’s curve won’t allow your back or shoulders to cheat....

She’d had laparoscopic surgery for examine a growth her gynecologist thought might be ovarian cancer. “It was probably the darkest week of my life since my husband passed away,” she recalls. But as Ruess regained consciousness, she saw her own mother at her bedside, looking relieved. She began to process what she was hearing: You’re going to be OK. The growth was on the fallopian tube, not her ovarya far less worrisome situation....

I vaguely remembered meeting Glenn. “He liked me?” And I told him, ‘She’s not chubby! She’s busty!’ And Glenn said, ‘In that case, hook me up.'" I wasn’t charmed by this anecdote. Glenn didn’t know it, but he had stumbled into my life during a rare slender period. I was 26 and wore a size 6 dress. Thanks to a 5-mile-a-day running habit, my weight even dropped during our first year together....

You have no idea how many times I’ve already ‘won’ the gold!" To stay fit on the road, the 6-foot-4-inch hoopster works out in her hotel room. Kate Nash is my favorite." Enjoy sweet satisfaction “For a quick snack, I love [Hostess] 100-calorie mini-muffin packs. Her other eat-sweets-and-still-stay-slim strategy? “I give a shot to keep my splurges to once a week,” she says. “I like to split a piece of Oreo cheesecake with a friend....

Bring bent right arm in front of face and left arm out to side, parallel to ground. Return to starting position. Do 12 reps. Switch legs; repeat. Lean torso to right as you reach ball to right and extend left leg to side. Bring left knee back to chest. Do 12 reps. Switch sides; repeat. Return to lunge, reversing arms. Do 12 reps. Switch sides; repeat. Lift torso off ground as you extend left leg to side, foot flexed....

Sex is the kind of thing that can keep you up at night. In a good way, of course. But its many attendant mysteries might gnaw at your imagination when you’d really rather be catching 40 winks. If knowledge is power, your sex life and gratification only stand to benefit. The fourth decadeisterrific for sex, but libido probably isn’t why. The refusal to ask for directions? An aversion to maps?...

Eileen Wells was smiling as she was wheeled into surgery. She was too excited to feel nervous. She was ready to begin her own transformation. At 5 foot 3 and 290 pounds, she was sick of being fat. She was anxious to say good-bye to sleep apnea and dieting, ready to take control. And so in March 2005, Wells underwent a laparoscopic gastric bypass. She was grinning right up until the anesthesia knocked her out....

You know the drill. You quit, your willpower wanes, you start again. You are your own enemy in World War Me. Well, it’s time to negotiate a peace treaty. Use their strategies to plan your own makeover maneuvers. Operation Break My Bad Habit starts now! The tweezing left her with uneven, lopsided brows. Klein met with Sadie Celaj, an aesthetician for the Anastasia Brow Studio in New York City. She introduced Klein to a stencil, a cutout of the ideal shape....

“No, Judith. Just…no.” “Oh, c’mon. I admit: I was having a Moment. The day I visited the doctor, I was convinced that expressionlessness looked ethereal. And I thought it might be interesting to give that otherworldly look a whirl. The good thing about Botox? On reflection, I’m glad Dr. Gibstein didn’t do what I wanted. In a sense, plastic surgeons have become victims of their own success. For years they’ve warned women about the risks of going overboard on face, forehead and eye lifts....