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Monday, January 14, 2013
Beyoncé teases new Lady Gaga collaboration with Instagram picture
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Personal Best: Q&A With Julianne Hough
The actress and fitness coach dishes about health, beauty, and her perfect day.By Lauren Paige Kennedy
WebMD Magazine - Feature
WebMD Magazine - Feature
If her film career stays on its current trajectory -- soaring -- you'll soon know Julianne Hough, 24, as a leading lady, not just a country music star, former hoofer on ABC's Dancing with the Stars, fitness guru, or even TV host Ryan Seacrest’s girlfriend. After turning heads in the 2011 remake of Footloose and holding her own against Hollywood heavyweights Tom Cruise and Alec Baldwin in Rock of Ages last year, Hough (pronounced "huff") will soon grace big screens in a starring role opposite Josh Duhamel in Safe Haven, a?romance adapted from the novel by Nicholas Sparks. Here, the Utah native shares her health and well-being tips.
"Beauty comes from within. Whatever you put in your body -- food or anything internally -- is going to show up there. I hardly wear any makeup when it's just me hanging out. If I'm going out I sometimes get carried away. I'm a girly-girl! I love La Mer's tinted moisturizer, Voluminous Mascara by L'Oreal, and L'Oreal's Crayon Grande Lipcolor -- not lipstick, not a gloss. I'm obsessed! I own every single color."
"I travel with my dogs. They take my mind off of everything stress-related, and I get my playtime. I also sleep as much as possible, and drink tons of water. When we were shooting Safe Haven in North Carolina, it was extremely hot. Toward the end we were shooting 20 hours a day, and sleeping just four. When we finished, I slept afterward!"
"The crafts services table is terrible! It's tough to be disciplined. If I'm hungry or thirsty I don't always know which -- I just know I'm craving something. So I do an iced herbal tea. And almonds, always. I cut up vegetables and put apple cider vinegar on them, with salt and pepper. Or snack on some hummus."
I'm trying to get into a routine right now. I'm traveling, and trying to figure out what works for me in different locations. I get bored quickly. I like to switch it up. Right now I'm loving SoulCycle [a full-body workout using weights and resistance bands while riding a recumbent cycle]. I'm doing that with some friends. It's not only a great workout and you sweat your butt off, but I just love the instructors. They're so uplifting, motivational, and inspirational that by the end of it you want to cry, you’re so inspired, and you feel like you can conquer the world afterward. So I love doing that first thing on a Monday morning and starting my week like that. I haven't danced for two-and-half years just for fun, so I'm taking ballet classes again -- I haven't done ballet since I was teen. And I love to swim. I'm not great -- I tend to swim sideways and into the corner! But it's a great workout. Instead of doing laps I'll add paddles to my feet or hands, and try to swim in place, almost like a water aerobics kind of thing. One thing I just found that I'm obsessed with is the Woodway treadmill. It's so soft on your knees. You don't feel like you’re bouncing, you feel like you're gliding. It's amazing. You can put it on a manual setting where you have to run to make it move. So that's fun.
New Eye Test May Help Predict Risk of Glaucoma
Jan. 4, 2013 -- A new study from Australia may offer a new way of identifying people at risk of glaucoma years before vision loss happens.
Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness. But because vision damage often occurs gradually, most people with the eye disease do not realize they have it until a good deal of their sight has been lost. If caught early, though, there are medications and procedures that may help treat glaucoma.In the study, researchers were able to predict who was at increased risk of developing the eye disease with some accuracy by measuring blood vessel thickness in the retinas of study participants using a computer-based imaging tool.
Those with the narrowest vessels at the beginning of the study were four times more likely to have developed glaucoma a decade later.
About 3 million Americans and 60 million people worldwide have glaucoma, and the numbers are projected to rise over the next few decades as the population ages.
The disease involves damage to the optic nerve, which relays images from the retina to the brain.
Early detection is key, but without regular eye exams, most people don’t know they have a problem, says ophthalmologist Andrew Iwach, MD. He is the executive director of the Glaucoma Center of San Francisco and an associate clinical professor of opthalmology at the University of California, San Francisco.
“We call this disease a ‘thief of vision’ because most people with it have no idea that they have lost sight until it is too late to bring it back,” Iwach says.
In the study, researchers from the University of Sydney followed nearly 2,500 adults, aged 49 and older, for 10 years.
None of the participants had glaucoma when they entered the study.
Compared with the group as a whole, those people who were diagnosed with the eye disease during the following decade were older, had higher blood pressure, and were more likely to be female.
The researchers concluded that measuring retinal-vessel narrowing could help identify people at risk for glaucoma. But they added that blood pressure and other factors that can contribute to vessel size would need to be considered.
The study appears in the latest issue of the journal Ophthalmology.
The researchers say that the findings also highlight the importance of having regular eye exams as people age.
The American Optometric Association recommends eye exams for adults aged 18 to 60 every two years, every year for adults 61 and older, or as recommended by their eye doctor.
In addition to glaucoma, regular exams can detect other eye diseases associated with aging, including macular degeneration and cataracts, Iwach says.
Eye surgeon Mark Fromer, MD, of Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, agrees that having regular eye exams is the best protection against vision loss associated with aging.
“It remains to be seen if this approach will help us identify people at risk for glaucoma sooner,” he says. “We have a number of tools now to help us do that, but we’ve got to get people in our offices to use them.”
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