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Exercise and weight loss: A formula for success

To lose one pound by exercising, you need to burn approximately 3,500 calories. It can take days of moderate exercise to do this. A better strategy for weight loss involves a two-pronged approach: exercising and cutting calories.

Get your copy of 6-Week Plan for Healthy Eating

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This week-by-week plan will help you transform your eating habits into a program of nutritious and delicious food choices that can last a lifetime. Applying the latest results from nutrition science, Harvard experts take you by the hand and guide you to create an eating plan to improve heart health, longevity, energy, and vitality.

Abdominal fat and what to do about it

An expanding midsection is accepted as an inevitable fact of aging. But we've now been put on notice that as our waistlines grow, so do our health risks. The good news is that abdominal fat yields fairly easily to exercise and diet, with benefits ranging from lower blood pressure to more favorable cholesterol levels.

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Treatment of back pain has undergone a recent sea change. Experts now appreciate the central role of exercise to build muscles that support the back. This Special Health Report, Back Pain: Finding solutions for your aching back, helps you understand why back pain occurs and which treatments are most likely to help. This report describes the different types of back problems and the tailored treatments that are more likely to help specific conditions.

Create a plan to relieve your back pain

If you suffer from back pain, you've probably tried one or two ways to ease it. The range of options — from doing nothing at all to having surgery — is quite large. But the abundance of choices also presents a challenge. How do you know which therapy is right for you?

6-Week Plan for Healthy Eating

Featured content:

•	What is healthy eating?
•	Week 1: Getting started on the six-week plan
•	Week 2: Build a better breakfast
•	Week 3: Healthy up your lunch
•	Week 4: Make dinner a winner
•	... and more!