Twenty-three million Americans live in food deserts — impoverished rural and urban areas where no grocery stores operate. Mark Lilly, a former restaurant manager, found that the solution to the problem of food deserts may lie in an old school bus.

Residents of food deserts — 6.5 million of whom are children — have neither physical nor financial access to fresh food. Their meals come from fast food restaurants and convenience stores. In a live chat with AOL Health about her “Let’s Move” campaign to end childhood obesity, Michelle Obama said she hoped to eliminate food deserts within seven years.

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I get plenty of questions in various comments throughout the website, but I also get comments and questions via the Project Swole Contact Form.

Generally I address those questions through e-mail, but often I do not have the time to reply to each and every question personally.

The category, Your Health Questions is a more proactive approach to answering your questions so that everyone can benefit from the Q & A.

Hi Steve.

My Goal is to bench 500 lbs. Currently pushing 420 Legal Lift raw. Chest work out consists of 1 warm up set of 135 for 20 reps. 1 set of 10 reps @ 315. 3 sets of 3 at 405. then 2 or 3 sets of 10 at 315.

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A post we did on Tuesday about a study on anesthesia outcomes published in Health Affairs has attracted a lot of comments and debate, to put it mildly. (This wasn’t a big surprise — the last time we covered the discussion of whether nurse anesthetists need to be supervised by a physician, there was a similar reaction.)

We wanted to address some of the questions raised by commenters. So here’s a summary of the more common themes:

What do the anesthesiologists think of the research?

Not much. Here’s the official reaction from the American Society of Anesthesiologists. Billing

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A 55-minute strength-training class at my gym, Body Pump, has recently become a minor obsession of mine. But I haven’t always loved strength training. I used to be really intimidated by it, mostly because I had no idea what to do! And I dreaded ending up with big, bulky muscles. Now, however, I lift weights to keep my arms and legs toned and to sculpt new muscles I never knew I had!

It may sound surprising, but bulking up a little can even help you lose weight. Women who strength train preserve muscle mass while they shed pounds, and have higher metabolisms, according to a study from the University of Alabama, in Birmingham. S

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