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Fitness
May 27, 2016
Joanna Scutts
The Depression Era’s Magic Bullet For Weight Loss
The most effective diet pill of the twentieth century helped thousands of people lose weight—by boiling them from the inside.
March 30, 2015
Lianne McTavish
What I Learned by Becoming a Bodybuilder at Age 45
June 14, 2013
Jennifer Percy
Sweat in Peace
Memorializing the dead at CrossFit

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