Get healthy, live strong
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The Lance Armstrong Foundation and Demand Media, a social media company, are launching a Web site today with 600,000 pages of content on health, fitness and wellness. The site has a library of 15,000 articles and videos, 350,000 nutritional food profiles and 50,000 health and fitness-related questions and answers.
The site, www.livestrong.com, includes information from doctors and other experts, exercise tips on everything from flattening flabby abs to improving overall workouts, and an array of help on such topics as quitting smoking and dieting, including a "daily plate," which tracks calories for those on the path to lowering their weight.
The site is free, and unlike livestrong.org, which is dedicated to cancer survivors and their families, livestrong.com is for anyone who wants to make change, Armstrong said.
"The polls will tell that 85 (percent) to 90 percent of Americans want to change something about their life or their lifestyles, but only 40 percent of them get started doing it," Armstrong said. "The obesity epidemic, soaring diabetes rates and other unhealthy trends have America heading to a perfect storm the health care system is not prepared to handle."
The site enables people to work in groups, like the one with 100 women who tested the "daily plate" to collectively lose 1,000 pounds and got messages when they needed to step up their exercise to counteract their daily calories, said Larry Fitzgibbon, general manager of livestrong.com.
"We think this is one of the killer (applications)," Fitzgibbon said. "There are sites for this on the Web, but they cost money."
Articles on the site, such as "Four Ways to Treat Bacterial Infections," or "Five Things You Need to Know About Lipomas," are delivered in a short, simple style.
The site, www.livestrong.com, includes information from doctors and other experts, exercise tips on everything from flattening flabby abs to improving overall workouts, and an array of help on such topics as quitting smoking and dieting, including a "daily plate," which tracks calories for those on the path to lowering their weight.
The site is free, and unlike livestrong.org, which is dedicated to cancer survivors and their families, livestrong.com is for anyone who wants to make change, Armstrong said.
"The polls will tell that 85 (percent) to 90 percent of Americans want to change something about their life or their lifestyles, but only 40 percent of them get started doing it," Armstrong said. "The obesity epidemic, soaring diabetes rates and other unhealthy trends have America heading to a perfect storm the health care system is not prepared to handle."
The site enables people to work in groups, like the one with 100 women who tested the "daily plate" to collectively lose 1,000 pounds and got messages when they needed to step up their exercise to counteract their daily calories, said Larry Fitzgibbon, general manager of livestrong.com.
"We think this is one of the killer (applications)," Fitzgibbon said. "There are sites for this on the Web, but they cost money."
Articles on the site, such as "Four Ways to Treat Bacterial Infections," or "Five Things You Need to Know About Lipomas," are delivered in a short, simple style.
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Didn't Lance Armstrong break up with Sheryl Crow right after she was diagnosed with breast cancer? And then didn't he start 'seeing' Ashley Olsen?
How is this dude still popular?
Is one of the articles on this website "How to breakup with someone who absolutely needs your support then start dating someone 15 years your junior?"
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- BenDorries
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This photo is of Floyd Landis, not Lance Armstrong.
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