Water + vitamins + minerals = vitamin water. Sounds good, right? I mean, what can be better than pure water enhanced with minerals and vitamins? Vitamin Water has to be good. There is just one thing; you can easily get the vitamins and minerals from your diet. Oh, and water is also available from your water faucet. So let’s revisit the formula now. (more…)

Is Jessica Alba fat? No. Of course not. Jessica Alba is not fat, she is pregnant, but she seems to have unfounded fat fears. She is six months pregnant and she is exercising like crazy. Jessica has been hitting Emerson Hall Fitness in LA – and she has not been taking it easy at all.

“It’s like she’s training for a marathon,” says an eyewitness at the gym. “It doesn’t look normal, a pregnant woman exerting herself that much. Trainers tell pregnant women not to overdo it, but she’s not listening.” (more…)

Like mother, like daughter Before broadcasting dieting woes, consider your kids. Research suggests a mom’s obsessive dieting habits may negatively influence her children, especially daughters.

A Harvard Medical School study shows that when mothers are overly concerned about their weight, their daughters are more often preoccupied about their own bodies. (more…)

We all have them from time to time – sudden cramps that hold muscles tightly locked and unable to respond to our frantic efforts to release them.

Muscle cramps can be anything from a slight tic or twinge to the most agonizing pain, last from a few seconds to 15 minutes or longer, and occur just about anywhere in the body.

Their main symptoms include sudden, sharp pain accompanied by muscle contractions, which create a lump of tissue that may be visible under the skin. This feels hard to the touch and may twitch. (more…)

What does it take to rock the Oscar red carpet? For Lisa Rinna, it is a bit of Botox, a ton of cardio – and absolutely no chips and guacamole. Oh, and Dexatrim Natural Green Tea Formula, which claims to curb hunger, but like many other weight loss pills, it does not really work.

Lisa Rinna’s workout (3 weeks until the Oscars) Running with light weights helps the 5′7″ Rinna “lean out the muscles,” she says – as do cardio ballroom dance classes four times a week with Louis van Amstel, her ex-Dancing with the Stars partner. (more…)