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Diet in early adulthood is so important because by the time we get into our late twenties it is too late to reverse the damage caused by poor diet and nutrient deficiencies and the opportunity to build strong bones has passed.

Half of all women and one in five men develop osteoporosis after the age of 50. Broken bones, also known as fractures, caused by osteoporosis can be very painful and slow to recover from. A poor diet for those in their teens and early twenties now could see a significant rise in the numbers of people suffering fractures and the complications associated with them in the future.

Unfortunately, the current eating habits of teenagers and young adults is a ticking time bomb for their bones and time is running out for them to prevent permanent damage.

A survey carried out on behalf of the NOS has found that 70% of 18 35 year olds are currently, or have previously been, dieting. In addition, 20% had cut or significantly reduced dairy in their diet. Dairy is an important source of calcium, vital in building bone strength when you are young.

Alarmingly, the most common diet for those aged 25 and under was clean eating, which can see dieters cutting out whole food groups from their diet. The survey also showed that under 25s are much more likely than any other age group to be following health, diet or nutrition bloggers on social media. This has led to concern over the influence the fad eating regimes promoted on social media are having on teenagers and young adults, and the impact it could have on the future health of this generations bones.

The foundations of good bone health are built in early adulthood, usually before the age of 25. Diet at this time plays a key part in protecting the future health of bones. Cutting out food groups during this stage of bone development could put future bone health at significant risk, and specifically increase the risk of developing osteoporosis, a condition that causes bones to become fragile and break easily.

The National Osteoporosis Society is therefore calling on parents to speak to their children about the possible dangers to their bones and is offering support and tips onhaving a conversation with their children and grandchildren aboutgetting calcium and vitamin D into their diet at the beginning of a major campaign calledA Message to My Younger Self.

Without urgent action being taken to encourage young adults to incorporate all food groups into their diets and avoid particular clean eating regimes, we are facing a future where broken bones will become just the norm. We know that osteoporosis is a painful and debilitating condition and young adults have just one chance to build strong bones and reduce their risk of developing severe problems in later life.

What can people do?

Information for people who want to talk to their children or grandchildren will be found atwww.nos.org.uk/myyoungerselffrom 12th April (the launch of the campaign).

Head of the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK. Registered Public Health Nutritionist (RPHNutr). Clinical adviser to the National Osteoporosis Society.

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Wake up! The American diet has lost its soul

Hello beautiful souls. If youre unaware, we face the largest preventable catastrophe in the history of mankind. Disease, obesity, aggressive, violent behavior, intolerance, hate, injustice and pointless murders are widely accepted as the norm.

Just as were not born to hate each other, were not born to hate eating from Gods apothecary. We are taught. Subsequently, society suffers malnutrition; deprived of vitamins and minerals that feed your trillions of hungry cells. Precious vitamins and minerals are lost during processing.

Because you are affected by this lack of nourishment, it may have rendered you apathetic, less empathetic, less compassionate, and disconnected from certain realities. When the mind is starved from essential vitamins and healthy fats, its negatively affected. Scientific and quit simple actually.

Alas, the majority of you are contentedly sleepwalking; forgetting youre a magnificent miracle of creation, and yet you are killing yourself softly with those fries. And its not your fault! You just trusted man, who can only access 10 percent of his brain, instead of God.

So there it is: youve relinquished your health and happiness to a machine. I remember grandma cooking, singing hymns and focusing like a meditation on her food preparation. We could taste the love. Alas, several generations are lost to convenience, microwave cooking and blind, obedient acceptance, and it shows. No longer does anyone question, authority as the bumper sticker suggests.

As you consume dead food, you become unbalanced, less than whole, malnourished, and disconnected from Mother Earth and all thats good. Meh, you say you dont care? For the sake of the species, you must. Like the boiling frog, dont assume this unholy madness is normal.

We are far too deferential to the interests of big food, too invested in a corporate-serving narrative of personal responsibility with no parallel requirement of social responsibility, and too culturally wedded to a food model of quantity over quality.

Our affection for fast food has taken its toll. The feds recommend eating at least five to seven 1/2 cups of fruits and vegetables daily. America eats only three servings a day and 42 percent eat less. Two of the top five sources of dead calories in the American diet are cakes, cookies, chips, pies and pastries and soda-all with zero nutritional value.

The message is getting through, but slowly: the way were eating is killing us. Something has to change.

Hello beautiful souls. If youre unaware, we face the largest preventable catastrophe in the history of mankind. Disease, obesity, aggressive, violent behavior, intolerance, hate, injustice and pointless murders are widely accepted as the norm.

Just as were not born to hate each other, were not born to hate eating from Gods apothecary. We are taught. Subsequently, society suffers malnutrition; deprived of vitamins and minerals that feed your trillions of hungry cells. Precious vitamins and minerals are lost during processing.

Because you are affected by this lack of nourishment, it may have rendered you apathetic, less empathetic, less compassionate, and disconnected from certain realities. When the mind is starved from essential vitamins and healthy fats, its negatively affected. Scientific and quit simple actually.

Alas, the majority of you are contentedly sleepwalking; forgetting youre a magnificent miracle of creation, and yet you are killing yourself softly with those fries. And its not your fault! You just trusted man, who can only access 10 percent of his brain, instead of God.

So there it is: youve relinquished your health and happiness to a machine. I remember grandma cooking, singing hymns and focusing like a meditation on her food preparation. We could taste the love. Alas, several generations are lost to convenience, microwave cooking and blind, obedient acceptance, and it shows. No longer does anyone question, authority as the bumper sticker suggests.

As you consume dead food, you become unbalanced, less than whole, malnourished, and disconnected from Mother Earth and all thats good. Meh, you say you dont care? For the sake of the species, you must. Like the boiling frog, dont assume this unholy madness is normal.

We are far too deferential to the interests of big food, too invested in a corporate-serving narrative of personal responsibility with no parallel requirement of social responsibility, and too culturally wedded to a food model of quantity over quality.

Our affection for fast food has taken its toll. The feds recommend eating at least five to seven 1/2 cups of fruits and vegetables daily. America eats only three servings a day and 42 percent eat less. Two of the top five sources of dead calories in the American diet are cakes, cookies, chips, pies and pastries and soda-all with zero nutritional value.

The message is getting through, but slowly: the way were eating is killing us. Something has to change.

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The pros, the cons and the misconceptions of some of the most popular lifestyles. YourObserver.com The moment has come. You've decided to make a lifestyle change. You sit at your computer, scrolling through pages of search results showing dozens of diets and healthy lifestyles. There's paleo, gluten-free, Mediterranean. But how do you choose?

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With smaller portions on his plate, he wins at aging YourObserver.com For that reason, the Sarasota chef now eats a Mediterranean diet one that is primarily plant-based and is rich in nuts, fresh berries, leafy greens and olive oil. He avoids processed sugars and table salt, although he uses sea salt in moderation ...

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Professional athletes dont get to the top by accident. It takes superhuman levels of time, dedication, and focusand that includes paying attention to what they put in their bellies. In this series, GQ takes a look at what men whose bodies pay their bills eat on a daily basis to perform at their best. Today we're looking at the daily diet of Tom Ford model Conrad Bromfield.

Four years ago Conrad Bromfield started his modeling career with a Tom Ford campaign. Since then, the 25-year-old male model has been working pretty much nonstop, which is tougher than it sounds. While constant travel isn't exactly conducive to a healthy routine, in Bromfield's line of work you have to be ready to jump on a plane at a moment's notice, and your abs have to be ready, too.

Somehow that's not a problem for hima Brooklyn native whose energy reserves overflow to a ridiculous degree. (Seriously, don't ever give him coffee.) He has the buoyant enthusiasm you'd expect from a man who makes his living off of his superior physique and bone structure. Skepticism aside, though, Conrad Bromfield comes across as the real thing: a working model who takes the subway, prefers his mother's cooking to anything else, and makes all of New York City his gym. We could all learn a thing or two.

GQ: Do all male models eat the same thing? Do you abide by the steamed vegetables and grilled chicken diet?

Conrad Bromfield: No, I'm not the clich or the typical model. My thing is I eat once a day. I eat something small in the morning like an apple or a banana just to give me energy to run around to castings and do a bunch of things. When I'm finished in the evening, I eat a big meal. After that I don't eat anything.

How many castings do you go to in a day?

When I first started it was a lot, but nowadays it's one or two a day. I always take the subway or walk. And I never take the escalator. I always run up the stairs. Take the hardest way... because that's sometimes my only exercise for the day. When you're too busy you just gotta make everything around you your gym.

Do you cook for yourself at home?

I live with my mother. She's always around trying to cook something for me. We're a Caribbean family, so she makes the curried chicken and the oxtail and sometimes I have to tell her Ma, you can't put all that on the plate. But it works.

What is your favorite thing that she makes?

It would have to be Aki and salt fish. Which is a Jamaican dish. Aki is... as a country we don't know if it's a fruit or if it's a vegetable. But it grows on a tree, and it's amazing when steamed and put with salt fish.

Do you indulge in a cheat day?

Yesterday was my cheat day. I woke up pretty late. I flew in from L.A. at five in the morning. Then I went to a couple of castings, didn't get to eat anything. From there I got back home. I slept until about 6 P.M., then I got up and I ate rice, aki, and salt fish (thank you, Mama), and coconut cake all at once. Coconut cake is the greatest. It's pound cake covered with a glazed coconut frosting.

Do you eat the backstage food at fashion shows?

Yeah that's the best stuff. Because during fashion week a lot of the models have been running around so we need that re-up in a sense. In the morning, definitely, you'll always find male models eating. Trust me we eat. If there's 50 looks you're going to find 49 male models eating backstage.

What do you stay away from?

Pork. I realize when I eat pork or red meat I gain a lot more weight. So with pork I know it's harder to digest for me. The pizza's amazing in Italy, so I have to indulge. But greasy foods can sometimes fatten my head. And coffee... If you ever see me drinking coffee, run. Other than that I eat anything.

What's the one thing you can't resist?

Shake 'n Bake chicken. If you want to know my kryptonite, I'm gonna give it to you. It's Shake n Bake chicken. That's something... I'm sitting in front of my television, Looney Tunes are on, Bugs (my hero), mom comes out with the plate. Shake n' Bake chicken and corn on the cob actually. Yeeeeees.

Say you're prepping for an underwear or bathing suit shoot?

I still keep the same diet definitely. If anything, it's the workout that I'll ramp up. Do more reps on certain things. Running six miles on the treadmill, then sit ups. The best thing for me is calisthenics, which is using your body's weight. Instead of looking for a gym when I'm traveling. I use the floor, I use my backpack or my luggage, for weights... or I just have my stretch bands. I can use them for my biceps or my back. They're the best. Because when you use weights your body relies on outside sources, so you can easily lose that tone. But using your own body's weight it's coming form the inside. So it stays longer, it works better. And to get nice obliques and that V-line, when you're standing up just do a little twist. A side plank, kinda.

"If you want to know my kryptonite, I'm gonna give it to you. It's Shake n Bake chicken."

Do your non-model friends ask for advice on staying lean and fit?

YES, everyone does. I tell them sip some [apple cider] vinegar. That is the elixir. It cleans you, it kills bacteria, if you have break outs it fixes those.

So your friends say, I wanna lose weight, I wanna get abs, and you tell them drink vinegar and twist a little bit?

Uh-huh. Vinegar with grapefruit in the morning if you want to lose weight.

Models go to a lot of parties, do you drink when you're out?

I try not to. But if I'm around it, I'll probably have a champagne. But that's a thing I learned early to stay away from: alcohol, smoking, and drugs. If you wanna have the fountain of youth look, vinegar is not the only thing you need.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) The pain was real.

Some 48 hours after being put through Danica Patrick's fitness test by Danica Patrick herself it's the basis for her upcoming book and the sort of thing that will occupy her time when retirement from racing comes I wasn't constantly sore. But every time I stood up came a sharp reminder from my legs that Patrick had kicked my butt.

This was the workout: 100 air squats, 100 push-ups (on my knees), 100 butterfly sit-ups and 100 lunges, all timed to see how long it took to complete the set. That's the benchmark for more than 700 participants in the trial program for Patrick's "Pretty Intense" book, due out next year.

Her fitness challenge has been an ongoing project this season while balancing her NASCAR duties. Participants sent in "before" pictures of themselves and were given access to Patrick's 12-week fitness and "clean eating" program. The results, including "after" photos, will be part of the book.

With Patrick's driving days possibly nearing an end in the not-too-distant future, what might have seemed like an off-track hobby is being fast-tracked into something far bigger. She launched the clothing line "Warrior by Danica Patrick" on HSN after participating in the design process. And she developed the workouts and meal plans for the book.

Ask Patrick about how much longer she will race, and her reply doesn't suggest the question is off-target.

"As long as it's fun and it hasn't been super fun lately," she said before the season started. "But every year I start the year, I always have hope that it's going to be the year that things are going to click. I understand my career hasn't progressed.

"Maybe it's regressed? Why is that? Am I worse driver than I was a couple of years ago? Probably not," she said. "I don't think anybody gets worse. So it's really a matter of all the factors around you."

Patrick turned 35 last month. She has been racing more than half her life, building her brand along the journey and using a marketing strategy that has made her one of the most recognized female athletes in the world despite her limited on-track success. She is ranked 29th through the first seven races of the season.

Patrick drives for one of NASCAR's top teams, but the sponsorship that was so easy to come by during earlier days remember the GoDaddy TV ads? is now a harder sell. Before the season, Stewart-Haas Racing and primary sponsor Nature's Bakery became embroiled in a lawsuit over missed payments by the sponsor and what Patrick did or didn't deliver on behalf of the brand. It was an 11th-hour loss of about $15 million and it shed light on how hard it is to sell even the most marketable of drivers.

Now in her fifth full season in NASCAR's top series, Patrick has yet to win a race and she only has six top-10 finishes in 161 starts.

Make no mistake: She can drive. She has led laps in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500.

But her lone victory in the IndyCar Series came in 2008 and sticks out as a glaring reminder of how her superstar status outstrips her racing resume.

It's been a popular thought for some time that Patrick eventually would make the transition to a lifestyle career, maybe becoming some version of a Rachael Ray type. This much is true: Patrick appears capable of doing pretty much anything. She can whip up a five-course gourmet meal, pair wines, paint, and dress for either black tie events or black dirt at the race track.

Is carving out a space in the lucrative health and fitness business where she ultimately wants to be?

"Sure," she said after a long pause. "If I'm going to do all this and write a cookbook and a fitness program, I'll take this as far as I can to motivate people to be successful. The program works. I know it works."

After giving up dairy and gluten a few years ago, she really noticed the difference. She no longer would slog through a crummy afternoon and thought, "Man, today is just not my day."

"I just don't have those," she said. "The only thing that knocks me out now, sometimes, is allergies. But I don't get tired. I don't get full when I eat and I eat all the time, too."

She is a firm believer in meal preparation, and almost always carries a cooler with healthy eating options. At Thanksgiving, she served a grain-free, dairy-free stuffing, and a cold salad of shaved brussels sprouts, toasted butternut squash and a homemade dressing.

She's gone from working out once per day to twice per day and now occasionally three times. When it comes to food, there's no such thing as a cheat day.

"Wine, and every now and again, I have too much. But that happens," she said. "But I don't ever, ever, not on purpose, cheat on food. It's a routine. When I eat like (crap), I feel like (crap). If you want to lose weight and lean out, you have to eat well."

There's been a trickledown effect on her inner circle.

Friends make elaborate breakfasts. They work out more. Boyfriend and fellow driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has completely changed his routines and auditioned last year for "American Ninja Warrior." Patrick's mother did the fitness challenge and has never felt better.

As for me, well, I'm not totally inactive but I wouldn't label myself a "fitness enthusiast."

I should have known I was in trouble when I arrived early for our side-by-side workout and found Patrick already warming up on the treadmill.

Or when she told me to tighten my shoelaces.

Or when she laughed out loud at my first attempt at a squat.

Truly, though, my biggest mistake was trying to keep up at the start. She was reeling off lunge after lunge in a race against the clock to beat her personal mark. It didn't take long for me to fall off her pace, and Patrick laughed later when she told me most people initially try to keep up, and instantly regret it.

I didn't finish the test. It seemed next to impossible when going head-to-head with Patrick, who completed the exercises in just over 9 minutes.

Afterward, Patrick the trainer scolded me and offered a bit of insight into how she thinks about her own professional life.

"With racing, working out, you name it," Patrick said, "if you are not determined in your mind that you can do it, then you won't do it."

And her personal life? Well, the divorcee says she does want a family. Her April Fool's Day joke was to post a photo of herself and Stenhouse on her social media platforms suggesting they had gotten engaged.

She let it sit overnight before finally acknowledging, again on social media, it was a prank. She posted a photo of a tree swing Stenhouse had built her in the woods of their North Carolina estate.

Once so glamorous off the track, and so competitive and confrontational on it, these days Patrick is more like a love-struck, self-described hippy who preaches serenity and takes time to enjoy everything around her.

So when is that family coming? The proposal from Stenhouse?

"I got that under control," she smiled.

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An Anytime Fitness is coming to Pender. Co-Owner Paige Peterson says the facility will have running and weightlifting equipment. Im going to put a Anytime Fitness within the Community Center. It will be 4,000 square feet. And the type of equipment that I will have Ill have treadmills and ellipticals, seated ellipticals, hopefully some spinning bikes. Looking forward to having a Zero Runner for those runners that still want to get out and run, but they just cant handle the impact anymore. Well do some group fitness training, and Ill have a lot of freeweight equipment like squat racks and dumbbells, etc.

Peterson says the Community Center is located next to the Veterans Memorial right off Main Street.

Peterson adds her business is determined to help people get in shape and feel good. Yes, health definitely improves quality of life overall. Its very important to take care of the one body that youve been given here on this earth. And that actually is our tag lineget to a healthier place. We want to you to come in and be able to see the results that youre coming in for. We will help you get to that place. We will staff the facility with people that are knowledgeable about the equipment, knowledgeable about the body, knowledgeable about how we can get you from Point A to Point B, what you came in for.

Peterson also Co-owns Anytime Fitness Franchises in Oakland, Gretna, and Lincoln with her husband, Steve.

The Pender Anytime Fitness is projected to open in either August or September.

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There goes the neighborhood. Theyre trying to build an LA Fitness behind the Sprouts at The Shops at Rossmoor in Seal Beach.

Last year, real estate consultant Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) proposed a 37,000-square-foot LA Fitness. It was approved by the Seal Beach Planning Commission but the Seal Beach City Council voted the project down on appeal. Now the project is back again.

And, back again, too, are the complaints from residents: noise, traffic and that folks in the nearby condos really like using the back of the shopping center as their personal parking lot.

To be sure, no one likes sitting in traffic, and the peaceful enjoyment of your home is certainly something worth protecting. But those arguments seem to have become an excuse to veto any proposed development from homes to shopping centers to infrastructure projects.

A consulting firm hired by JLL completed a traffic study showing that the health club would generate about 1,218 additional daily trips to the center, the Register reported. However, the analysis concluded that minor alterations to the entryway off Seal Beach Boulevard would offset that influx.

While one should always be leery of studies paid for by the very people that want the project to move forward, it is reassuring that they are at least acknowledging that steps need to be taken to mitigate impacts to the neighboring community. And this is really the best outcome. Our region continues to grow, no matter how much we persist in trying to block new developments. People are coming, and they need their housing and shopping demands met. We shouldnt shut the door on newcomers to protect those who already have theirs. We should grow in a way that makes sense.

Ultimately, it is up to local governments, those who build the roads and likewise approve these development projects, to find the middle ground. One that recognizes the needs of those who are already here and those who want to be part of our communities.

There is no reason why an LA Fitness cannot open at The Shops at Rossmoor. Its a shopping center, and that is where city planners have decided establishments like LA Fitness are supposed to go. This shouldnt be a hard one for the city to solve.

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BLOOMINGTON When Molly McNamee was growing up in Bloomington-Normal, she was all about fitness.

Since relocating to Los Angeles several years ago to pursue a dance career, she has become a fitness professional, doing personal training and teaching fitness classes throughout the L.A. area.

That means McNamee, who turns 25 on Saturday, has a perspective into differences between fitness in Southern California and Central Illinois. Those differences are highlighted in the accompanying story.

"I have a passion for fitness and I want everyone to experience that," McNamee said by phone from L.A. last week.

As a child, she competed at Stacy's Dance Factory and Gymnastics Etc. In high school, she danced with three companies and her high school dance team.

"Fitness always has been a part of my life," she said. "I stuck with it because I enjoyed it."

After graduating from Normal Community High School in 2010, she attended Illinois State University for one year as a dance major before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a dance career.

"I wanted to move to something bigger. This is where the commercial dance industry is," she said.

She moved in 2011, began auditioning for musical artists and trained with choreographers at several L.A. studios while teaching dance to children and adults and performing as a dancer.

Shortly after arriving in L.A., "I began going to the gym and enjoyed it," McNamee said.

"The move (to L.A.) was a lot," she admitted. "I was truly alone. When I went to the gym, I met other people and it provided stress relief."

She attained her personal training certificate from the National Academy of Sports Medicine in 2013 and began working as a personal trainer.

"I found a passion for fitness and helping people," she said. "Seeing the changes (weight loss, muscle growth, stress relief and reduced pain) in my clients helped me to realize "Hey, I'm pretty good at this.'"

McNamee attained other certifications, including as a corrective exercise specialist (for people dealing with pain or recovering from injury), core specialist and yoga and boot camp instructor.

In 2014, she started her own business, MFit, offering personal training and small group training in parks and in peoples' homes, and yoga and boot camp classes in several studios in the L.A. area. She recently expanded into online training.

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As far as contests go, this is a unique one: All Arlington personal in-home fitness trainer Joe Tryon wants is for you to guess how long it was between the taking of the before photo and the after picture.

The photos are of him.

This is something I wanted to do since before I started the business, says Tryon.

His company is called Kinematics; the former Army captain offers in-home and mobile personal training and nutrition services, and hes offering up his own body as proof that hes on to something with his methods.

Your fitness goals are met using his personalized exercise plans designed to meet those goals. Your experience with fitness training and schedule are all taken into account to insure success at your own pace.

Tryon knows what youre going through: Once he left the Army and began working a desk job his discipline and fitness routines that got him through Airborne and Ranger schools took a beating, as did his body when he attempted to get back in shape. A skilled physical therapist put him back together and thats when he gained the motivation to acquire the certifications needed to help others.

And now hes having a contest.

In each photo hes holding a copy of that days newspaper. The person who comes closest to guessing how many days elapsed between the photos wins a nifty TRX GO Suspension Trainer system, a $129.95 value, and if you dont know what it is, you might want to sign up for a free assessment from Kinematics.

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