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Cycling provides many health benefits including cardiovascular conditioning. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Ready, Set, Bike

Cycling Provides Many Health Benefits Getting outside on two wheels can improve health and fitness, build muscles and boost your mood. Plus, for most people, it’s fun. “It’s a practical thing in that it’s getting us out of our cars and using our own power for transportation,”
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Anti-Pollution

The Aging Effects of Pollution While I deplore the excessive time lived indoors by most of us modern urbanites (unless it’s time spent supine on a chaise lounge, with a purring Siamese cat and a volume of P.G. Wodehouse), there are certain dangers lurking in the great outdoors
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Artificial light and the lack of daylight can disrupt the body's internal clock. (Photo: iStock)

Seek the Sun

Camping Tunes Body Clock With Nature Putting down your phone and living for a week with nothing but sunlight and campfires may bring your body clock in sync with nature’s rhythms, a small study suggests. And, researchers found, even avowed night owls turn into early birds
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