Ex-Notre Dame coach pleads guilty in standoff

In this Aug. 6, 2007 file photo, Notre Dame defensive coordinator Corwin Brown answers a question during Notre Dame Media Day in South Bend, Ind. Brown, accused of striking his wife and holding her hostage during a standoff, has pleaded guilty but mentally ill to confinement and domestic battery charges in return for prosecutors agreeing to drop a more serious confinement charge. A judge said Thursday, June 28, 2012, she will decide Aug. 21 whether to accept the deal.

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. ? Former Notre Dame assistant football coach Corwin Brown on Thursday pleaded guilty but mentally ill to charges that he struck his wife and held her hostage with a handgun in a seven-hour standoff with police.

In a plea agreement, prosecutors agreed to drop a class B felony confinement charge against Brown in the August 2011 incident at his home in Granger, just northeast of South Bend. With his house surrounded by police, Brown eventually released his wife, Melissa, then shot himself in the stomach.

Brown, 42, pleaded guilty but mentally ill to class D felony confinement and domestic battery charges.

His family says they believe he sustained brain trauma while playing as a defensive back at college in Michigan and during his eight seasons in the NFL with the Patriots, Jets and Lions.

Corwin and Melissa Brown were at the courthouse Thursday morning, but they both declined to comment on the deal. Sentencing is set for Aug. 21.

The plea agreement recommends a four-year prison sentence, but also states that prosecutors would not oppose a suspended sentence with Brown placed on probation.

"The state won't object to the probation but it is ultimately my decision," St. Joseph County Judge Jane Woodward Miller said. She told Brown he could face up to six years behind bars.

The agreement also calls for Brown to pay $4,471 in restitution to the St. Joseph County police department and $3,763 to the Mishawaka police department.

Miller reiterated that a psychiatrist and a psychologist were divided on whether Brown had been mentally competent at the time of the standoff. She said they weren't asked about his competency to stand trial. Miller has ordered those doctors' reports sealed.

Brown, wearing a blue shirt, dark blue pants and a white coat, told Miller during questioning that he was under a doctor's care in Chicago and was taking medications for psychosis. He said he couldn't recall which types of medications he was on. He said he was able to understand what was going on and that the medications weren't clouding his judgment.

Under questioning from defense attorney Mike Tuszynski, Brown said he couldn't recall everything that happened during the standoff and that he had not kept his wife confined in the house, forcing a brief suspension of the proceedings.

Brown and Tuszynski consulted privately, then the former coach returned to the courtroom and said he pushed his wife inside the house after she called the police. He said he tried to pull her upstairs and that this caused her discomfort or pain.

"At some point she was blocking the door and your arm made contact with her head?" Tuszynski asked.

"Yes," Brown replied.

He said their two children were present during the incident.

Source: http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20120628/wire/120629556

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'Magic Mike' star Tatum strips off his body hair

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During a Thursday night visit to "Late Night," Channing Tatum revealed the toughest part of his "Magic Mike" prep.

By Ree Hines

"Magic Mike" star Channing Tatum recently visited TODAY to show off some of his big-screen stripper moves, but during a Thursday night appearance on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon," the actor revealed he had to strip off more than his clothes for the movie.

Part of the prep involved parting with his body hair, a process Tatum didn't appreciate.

He told Fallon, "I got waxed, and that was ? uh ?"

"Fun?" the host asked.

"Nope."

While it wasn't fun, it was funny, as the clip provided proved.

Got to love the Lamaze breathing efforts Tatum employed to get through the pain.

Of course, the wax action wasn?t his only laugh-getter. Later on the show, Tatum donned his best girl garb and joined Fallon for a round of Teen Nick-style "Ew!"

And that still wasn't all. The actor even wowed the crowd with a shocking reveal. Remember Ricky Martin's 2000 hit "She Bangs"? Tatum made a blink-and-you'd-miss-it appearance in the video. See for yourself:

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Denver Community College program helps male students help themselves

Ryan Ross says he works "in dreams and visions." But when the dean of students and retention along with other officials at the Community College of Denver were considering creating a program to help male students navigate collegiate life, he knew there were no guarantees of success.

"For some, there's the pride factor, them saying, 'I'm a man, I take care of my own and I'm not gonna ask anybody for help," Ross said. "We have men here who are in dire situations. Maybe they're homeless; maybe they're not eating. We have a food bank but they won't go because they don't want to show weakness.

"They'll say, ' I'm on the campus, but I don't want a pity party.' "

In those cases, Ross continues, the challenge is to help students realize that it's OK to ask for help, whether it's for something as big as something to eat or as seemingly minor as buying the right textbook for class. And for the last few months, one of Ross' flights of fancy, CCD's Urban Male Initiative, has done just that.

The program, which was launched in March, has already started making inroads in helping students deal with life on campus and in areas like professional development. Presently, part of the school's academic advising center, the initiative has been so well received that officials now believe much greater success lies ahead.

"We won't fail," said Leslie McClellon, CCD's vice president of student development. "Within a couple of years, it will be a department of its own."

At any level, college can be a daunting experience. That's especially true in the community college system, where the vast majority of students commute, many of them taking classes while trying to manage jobs and families.

When those pressures become too much, it's often school that suffers, particularly for men. At CCD, for example, fewer than 40 percent of the students are men, and according to McClellon, each year between 33 and 50 percent of them leave.

"That's why this is so important ? we don't want to lose our men," she said. "A lot of them will say there are too many obstacles, too much going on."

And so, even when men are on campus, they often are looking to get off.

"I used to come here for classes and go straight home," said Clenton Tunson, Jr. of Denver, a student at the school. "I never saw what was available. I was doing myself a disservice."

One day this spring, Tunson stuck around long enough for a scholarship meeting that was cancelled. But before he could bolt, someone told him to check out another event ? an Urban Male Initiative meeting.

"It was 2 o'clock on a Friday. I was skeptical," Tunson said. "I didn't know what they were going to ask of me, but I walked in and I haven't left since."

A father of three, Tunson enrolled in school after he was laid off from his job at a mechanical engineering design firm. For a time, he thought it might be better for him to work and let his wife continue school. But his lack of a degree was holding him back from even getting interviewed for jobs, he said. And he also realized that preaching the value of education to his children would ring hollow if he wasn't walking the talk himself.

"Men will drop out and get a job to support their family. But they don't realize it takes both (him and his wife) to finish and get the degree to help them achieve the life that they want," McClellon said. "This program is a way to wrap our arms around them and say, 'This is for you. Let us help you get through the hard times and get to that end result.' "

Typical of those efforts is the two-week summer bridge program Urban Male Initiative is offering to its students next month. The first week will be spent on academics ? "How do you study?" Ross said. "When you pick up a book, how do you read it?"

In the second week, the participants will work on their leadership skills, with part of the curriculum listening to real-life stories from members of the Denver community.

"We don't want the fluff leadership speech ? we want to know, how did you fail and how did you get up?" Ross said. "We want to really give the students that push, to say I have to keep going because here's somebody who's a role model and they've had pitfalls and they were able to get up."

Even in Ross' perfect world, there will still be stumbles. But those who fall won't have to worry about scrambling back to their feet alone.

"When it's graduation day," he said, "We'll walk across the stage together ? all of us, not just some of us."

Anthony Cotton: 303-954-1292 or acotton@denverpost.com

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96% First Position

All Critics (50) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (48) | Rotten (2)

A number of the performances are plain stunning - Aran and Joan, in particular, seem born to move - and in many ways watching the movie is like watching a sporting event; there are winners and losers and favorites to cheer on.

It's an intense journey, and Kargman captures it all, down to the dancers' bloodied and bruised feet.

Yes, it is possible to create a gripping documentary about the ballet world without resorting to "Black Swan" melodramatics.

Because its subjects are so driven and so talented, "First Position," which is about ballet, is more gripping than the norm.

It's in the quick audience-reaction shots of the young dancers' exultant parents and cringing private instructors that the movie finds its most nakedly human moments.

The film shows the grueling work it takes for young dancers like Zamora to look effortless on stage, and First Position shows teachers who range from supportive to borderline abusive.

Far from the dutiful progeny of "Dance Moms," these are individuals of uncommon skill, self-knowledge, maturity and drive. They're the real deal. And so is First Position.

All of the dollars and expertise that produced this summer's blockbusters could never produce a spectacle as wondrous as 11-year-old Aran Bell dancing his heart out.

Kargman ... brings a welcome empathy to this programmatic film that follows six hopefuls as they compete in something called the Youth America Grand Prix, which we're told is the most comprehensive ballet competition in the world.

The children are almost unearthly in their agility and elegance -- until they remove their shoes, and reveal their all-too-human abrasions and injuries.

It's a wealth of material at odds with a scant running time and shallow focus.

When it's over, you won't remember so much about who won and who lost. Instead, what remains is the expression on a young dancer's face, reflected in a mirror: showing the joy of being in love with what you do.

What we experience is the overwhelming thrill of the competition and the true agony of defeat.

It could very well compete for Best Documentary at next year's Academy Awards.

For someone (like me) who has never been to a ballet, the talent of these teens and tweens is a revelation.

It's 'Spartacus' en pointe.

Inspiring documentary about hardworking young dancers.

Almost loses its sense of good taste entirely in the final act, straining to build suspense and shape heroes. The bias hangs a little ugly in an otherwise passable, somewhat enlightening effort.

The cookie cutter format Kargman uses in presenting her subjects may be unoriginal but a safe way to introduce the filmmaker to her new audience.

Child ballet dancer and former journalist Bess Kargman brings a dancer's passion and insight to her directorial debut, illuminating the addictive magic and fierce demands of a ballet dancer's life.

Really, all of the dancers' evident passion for their art is, well, spellbinding.

These kids are proud of their tights.

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An Example of Why I Don't Use Creative Commons Licenses

Too many people do not understand how it works.

The Smithsonian ran a blog entry today illustrated with a charming firefly photographed by?Terry Priest (?art farmer? on Flickr):

"Firefly 0877" by Terry Priest, distributed under a Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.0 license.

The Smithsonian ran the photo captioned as follows:

Photinus pyralis, a species of firefly found in the eastern United States (via wikimedia commons)

No mention of the photographer. Just a link to the Wikimedia commons database.

Crediting Wikimedia Commons for an image is like attributing a Mark Twain quote to ??The Public Library?. A repository is not the source. Wikimedia Commons did not spend hours creating a technically difficult photograph of an insect in flight. Terry Priest did, and Terry Priest deserves the credit.

This is not just an etiquette breach. Both Wikimedia Commons and Flickr give the following terms for distributing Mr. Priest?s work:

Pay attention to the bit about attribution.

With the photographer uncredited, Smithsonian has not followed the license conditions and is in violation of terms. The firefly is still a copyright-protected image. Creative Commons is not a copyright-free zone. With Smithsonian operating outside the agreement, they have opened themselves up to an infringement lawsuit should Mr. Priest be feeling litigious.

I don?t mean to pick on a fine institution like the Smithsonian. Nor am I suggesting Mr. Priest ought to sue, although he?s legally within his rights to. I?m just using this as representative of the Creative Commons abuses that are rife on the internet.

Creative Commons is a good thing. I would like the organization to succeed. Ultimately, though, the accumulated misattributions of Creative Commons licensed materials are bad for everyone. The more that content?distributors take without giving back, the less incentive creators have to feed material into the system. If open-source art is going to work, users need to be partners, not parasites.

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Google?s Bringing A Little Chrome To The iPad and iPhone

Google?s Chrome browser for Android has been burning up the scene since it debuted in early February, fast becoming one of our favorite browsers on the platform. With it finally leaving beta status this week, and becoming the default browser in Jelly Bean, Chrome?s mobile future has never looked brighter. As if all that wasn?t enough great Chrome news, now Google?s revealed that the browser is also making its way to iOS, with a version for the iPad and iPhone coming out today.

Full details on the release should be available shortly, and for now all we know is that these iOS versions should be full-featured editions of Chrome, complete with cross-device bookmark and session syncing. If it?s half as good as the Android version is, we?d say Apple users have good reason to be excited.

Update: It looks like we got a twofer on our hands, as Google has also announced Google Drive for iOS.

As for Chrome itself, due to Apple?s restrictions, iOS Chrome won?t feature Google?s Chrome-specific WebKit enhancements, nor the? V8 JavaScript engine. While that?s unfortunate, Chrome may still attract a good number of users thanks to its attractive interface and Google integration.

Source: Google
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New Egypt president has tight window on economy

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's new president has a window of opportunity to pull the economy from the brink of disaster, but he will have to chart a careful path to convince a host of deeply skeptical players at home and abroad that his is a government they can trust.

After winning the country's first freely contested election for head of state, the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi, 60, brings with him strongly free-market policies that would delight investors were it not for Egypt's daunting economic challenges and fraught politics.

He also brings a detailed economic plan meticulously drawn up over the course of a year, supported by the Brotherhood's well organized political machine.

However, to spur growth and win over investors to trust Egypt for the long term, Mursi will have to restore stability to a country rocked by sometimes violent political turmoil in the 16 months since an uprising forced Hosni Mubarak from power.

To do this, he will have to build up a working relationship with generals who stripped the presidency of many of its powers in the week before the result of the presidential election was announced on Sunday.

He also faces the prospect of a new constitution to replace the current interim constitution which is vague on the full extent of presidential powers.

But analysts say the popular mandate handed to Mursi in the election makes it harder for political opponents to obstruct reforms he initiates.

"There is definitely a window of opportunity. I think there is goodwill out there because of the nature of the result, because it was a clear result," said one Western diplomat.

"If we get a cabinet that is broad based and brings in good economic expertise as well as people who have credibility outside Egypt, then ... it's probably quite good news in the short term," the diplomat said.

ECONOMY ON THE BRINK

Egypt's uprising hammered the economy by chasing away tourists and foreign investors and prompting government employees to strike for higher wages. The economy contracted by 4.3 percent in the first quarter of 2011 and stagnated in the following three quarters.

The Brotherhood's economic plan relies on private Egyptian and foreign investors and the group has pledged to move fast to negotiate a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) once it forms a government.

"We trust Egypt but, with no security, investors will flee. Change is very hard and bumpy," said Adnan Ahmed Yousef, president of the Union of Arab Banks and chief executive of Bahrain-based Albaraka Banking Group.

An army-backed interim government kept the economy on the rails since Mubarak's overthrow through a series of short-term measures that have brought the country dangerously close to fiscal collapse.

These include financing a burgeoning budget deficit by selling domestic treasury bills and bonds at steadily rising interest rates and shortening maturities.

The pile of local currency debt has built up to well over 600 billion Egyptian pounds ($99 billion) from about 500 billion pounds just before the uprising.

The borrowing has stretched the lending ability of local banks, causing the average yield on 1-year T-bills to surge to almost 16 percent, its highest in more than a decade, from 10.4 percent in January 2011.

The interim government borrowed an additional $6 billion in T-bills denominated in U.S. dollars that the new government, strapped for foreign currency, will have to repay or roll over when the first begin maturing in November.

The interim government has also drawn down foreign reserves by more than half, to about $15.5 billion, to support the currency, partly out of fear that an increase in the cost of imported goods would fuel inflation and political discontent.

The dangerously low level of reserves has left the country with less than three months of import coverage.

Brotherhood officials have said that once a new government is in place they plan to pick up from the previous government's stop-start negotiations for a $3.2 billion IMF loan.

An IMF agreement could bring further billions in aid pledged by Arab and international donors - money that Mursi's election could help unlock.

HUNDRED DAYS

The IMF has made any loan conditional on a credible program to get the country's finances under control, that the program have broad domestic political support and that Egypt line up additional financing from foreign donors.

This could take months to pull together but, with so much short-term debt coming due in the second half of the year, the clock is ticking.

"To a large extent, it depends on who they've got, who they'll bring into the cabinet, who they'll bring in as finance minister. It will take a little bit of time to get clarity," the diplomat said.

"There is still a certain lack of clarity over the distribution of powers, and the risk - you don't have parliament to offer endorsement, you have the military involved in the economy."

Since the uprising, the Brotherhood has been putting together a detailed economic and social program called al-Nahda (The Renaissance).

The program aims to shore up the new administration's support among Egyptians though a 100-day campaign in five areas that yield immediate social benefits.

These include rapid measures to get the country's notoriously choked traffic flowing more efficiently, restore security and clean up piles of rubbish that have long blighted Egypt's streets.

Other measures would ensure that bottlenecks disrupting availability of subsidized bread, petrol and butane cooking gas are removed. With energy subsidies eating up as much as a quarter of the state budget, this could prove expensive.

The Brotherhood says it will gradually decrease subsidies on energy products used by industry.

It has said it will target subsidies on products such as gasoline and diesel so that they are directed to the poor.

(Additional reporting Mirna Sleiman; Editing by Tom Pfeiffer and Alison Williams)

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Women want it all? It's time to fight for it

Former Obama administration official Anne-Marie Slaughter talks to TODAY's Natalie Morales about her controversial article in The Atlantic, which debates whether women can juggle high-powered careers and be good mothers at the same time.

By Eve Tahmincioglu

Women can have it all if they fight for what they need.

That was the message that came from a powerful woman who sparked a national debate last week about women and their success in the workplace and as mothers.

Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former U.S. State Department official and now a Princeton professor, spoke about her The Atlantic article, ?Why Women Still Can?t Have It All?, Monday on TODAY, and wanted to make it clear that her piece was not negative but more of a call to action to women struggling with balancing work and life.

?Women have come leaps and bounds,? she said about the advancements women have made in the workplace, ?but we need another round of change.?

Working mothers, she continued, make it to a point in their career where they?re beginning to climb the ladder of success, but then they end up feeling ?unbelievably torn? when family and work responsibilities clash.

Indeed, many women are questioning whether they can really have it all. An informal poll taken last week in an article about Slaughter?s story and the controversy that ensured, asked ?Do you think women can have it all?? found only 11 percent of the nearly 4,000 respondents felt it was possible, compared to 48 percent that offered a resounding ?no? to the question.

But in a sign of hope, 41 percent voted: ?Maybe, when the workplace changes.?

And it?s change Slaughter wants to see.

?We need to be honest about how hard it is,? she said about the first step women need to take. And secondly, she stressed, ?you have to ask for what you need. If you need to work from home, ask for it.?

In the end, she added, it?s all about a serious ?desire for change.?

Change needs to happen on a larger scale as well, maintained?Debra L. Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families.?

"Most of America?s women and their families are confronted on a daily basis with the fact that ?having it all? is still a distant dream, and we know that it will not get better until our workplaces are family friendly," she said. "We need policies like paid sick days and paid family and medical leave for all workers, and all workers need the flexibility to be caregivers and breadwinners for their families."

Slaughter's article, she added, "should be a call to action for employers and lawmakers to finally address the growing demand for workplaces that meet the needs of 21st century families."

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Daytrading, Stock Trading, Investing and Forex Trading ? Five Tips ...

What's daytrading? Day-trading is carried out by day traders who quickly purchase and sell stocks over a single day period in hopes that for the brief period over which they hold the stocks ( from only a few seconds to a few hours ) the worth may continue to climb or fall therefore permitting day traders to secure fast profits. How does one make profits? The strategy of selling and buying stocks over a particularly brief time period can create large losses or profits for the trader in just 2 minutes or hours. Statistics prove that 80-90% of all day traders make a loss at the end of each trading day. However daytrading has become a rocketing well-liked sort of trading lately due to the web and increased access to info. So while daytrading used to be a debatable sort of securities trading reserved in general to finance firms pro traders and a top-notch group of non-public stockholders it's now also extremely commonplace strategy of trading among casual traders. I also advocate a stocks pick programme which is focused on penny shares.

These are less expensive stocks with a gusto for going on extraordinarily fast profit-making jumps because they're easier influenced and influenced with less market action. It?s common to see one of those stocks jump to double or treble in price in a short time. The hard part is finding these stocks and separating them from the rest explaining why some stocks pick programs were designed with the point of only identifying these stocks, particularly. What they do is, they hold the stock for a minute or two to an hour and then sell them before the close of the day. You need to remember nonetheless that there are gain limits on a single share. Additionally, since the market moves a lot, it is crucial to maintain a record of your stock and your returns for the day. So , it's much better to purchase and offload often in the day.

As time rolls by you can start to add one or two more of them to your daily analyses. In this fashion, you'll be ready to appraise your performance and choose which day-trading method works best. Even if you're dependent on a great programme to help, there are parts of irregularity that they cannot establish for you. A good goal for you is to have 3 times more profit in place than what your maximum amount you are prepared to lose turns out to be. One zone of weakness for many with stock option daytrading is knowing when to get out.

Perhaps you are thinking about those day traders are just too fortunate to make some random profit in market. Understand your risk taking limitation and be conscious of the implications. It's a wrong idea as day traders shouldn't only understand the logic trading but they also must have a clear and calm perspective to make urgent call. Recently trading systems are available to average public users.

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Arts and Entertainment: Paintings and Art in the Online World

Art has been spontaneous expression of human emotion, since the pre historic age. Since then it has come a long way travelling through different phases of history, nourished by the renaissance, cradled by the great artistic hands of Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Pablo Picasso to contemporary artists like David Aberg. It stages itself in the Louvre as well as Madam tuso and in the personal collection of millions of art collectors. It has made its way from the caves of Ajanta to the dynamic world of internet. Now it has its new kingdom of painting and art online.

The online world of painting and art has an aspiring effect on thousands of contemporary artists. Through this modern technology millions of patrons of art and painting can reach the art works of distant artists. This in turn encourages more and more people to take up art as a profession and work on inspirational projects. This has enriched art as a whole.

Painting, art online has now faded out all th e geographical boundaries, breaking the cultural barriers and making a unified world of a divine culture and spiritualism. The online world of painting has provided for an increased privilege for both the artists and art admirers. Previously the art collectors had to travel far beyond to get their choice of painting from painters whom they admired. But now, it is to their great convenience the online world of painting and art has proved to be advantageous and beneficial for the art collectors. They are now able to enjoy and purchase exquisite pieces of art from home only through the internet.

Hence, it is well preferable to opt for online art and painting without any delay. The online art and paintings of great painters guarantees an art collector with the availability of unique and brilliant creation of art.

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Moderate Exercise Can Lower Breast Cancer Risk: Study

Just a little bit of exercise is enough to decrease the risk of breast cancer, according to a new study.

However, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill researchers said that the best way to lower your risk of breast cancer is to get to a healthy weight and maintain it.

The study, published in the journal CANCER, included 1,504 women who had breast cancer (233 of them had noninvasive breast cancer, while 1,271 people had invasive breast cancer), as well as 1,555 women who didn't have breast cancer. All of the women were between ages 20 and 98.

The researchers found that reproductive-age or postmenopausal women who reported exercising the most in the study -- between 10 and 19 hours each week -- were the ones who had the greatest decrease in breast cancer risk -- a 30 percent lower risk of the disease.

However, even women who exercised less than that seemed to have a decrease in breast cancer risk, especially for the hormone-receptor positive kinds of breast cancer.

And you don't have to be a marathoner or super-exerciser to reap the benefits -- researchers found that all levels of exercise intensity were linked with a decreased risk.

"The observation of a reduced risk of breast cancer for women who engaged in exercise after menopause is particularly encouraging given the late age of onset for breast cancer," study researcher Lauren McCullough said in a statement.

But the important thing is to maintain the healthy weight -- researchers found that if a woman stayed active but put on significant pounds, breast cancer risk increased -- suggesting weight gain can actually negate the positive effects of exercise.

Similarly, TIME magazine reported on a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center study showing that women who experienced a moderate weight loss -- as a result of eating healthily and exercising -- also had a decrease in hormones linked with breast cancer.

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