The Untimely End of The Great Rachel Cosgrove Fitness Experiment (II) [lighter weights/high reps vs heavier weights/low reps?]

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Someone stole my book. Right off the dumbbell rack on the weight floor where I’d left it propped open with a 2-pounder. (Because what else do you do with a 2-lb dumbbell? Use it to crack pecans? Roll out dough? Do that weird forearm exercise where you curl it backwards??) In all my years of …

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The Pitfalls of the War on Breast Cancer [Does traditional screening more harm than good? And what does “awareness” even mean??]

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Sitting alone on the exam table, in a paper gown and feeling naked in more ways than one, I stared down at the number on the card in my hand. It was for a geneticist so I could be tested for the BRCA gene, a known marker for breast cancer. “It’s time, Charlotte,” my doctor …

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