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| The next time someone says you "eat like a pig," take it as a compliment! Pigs don't overeat, and their diet is the closest to the human diet of any other animal. |
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| Cool off with ice cream? Wrong! Ice cream feels cool, but it is loaded with calories (units of heat) and actually makes your body warmer. |
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| Some people think that "eating like a bird" means not eating much. In fact, birds eat a lot, and they eat frequently because of their high metabolism (the body's way of making food into energy). |
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| Models in magazines can look very different in real life. In magazines, lighting, make-up, photo re-touching, and other special effects contribute to an unreal look. Real bodies come in every shape and size. |
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| Yoga and stretching are great stress reducers and body toners. Yoga promotes strength, balance, flexibility, good posture, and a general sense of well-being. |
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| The five Olympic rings represent the five major regions of the world - Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceana, and every national flag in the world includes one of the five colors, which are (from left to right) blue, yellow, black, green, and red. |
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| Anabolic steroids are illegal. That drug and other similar drugs can make pimples pop up and hair fall out. They can make guys grow breasts and girls grow beards. Steroids can cause tumors to grow on the liver and hearts to clog up. They can even send users on violent, angry rampages. In other words, steroids throw a body way out of whack, and ruin the lives of people who take them and their loved ones! |
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