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The Situation is Getting Drunker By The Minute

David Barton says vodka goes with the gym. Mike "the Situation" Sorrentino agrees. And then some. He's the new face of Devotion's "Bodybuilder Vodka." What's body builder vodka, you ask? Vodka, laced with all the creepy muscle-building stuff you used to have to take in powder or special Mike "the Situation" Sorrentino pill form. Oh, the convenience of one stop shopping.

My Body

Aimee Raupp on Sleep, Soy, and Skinny Bitches

Aimee Raupp is a licensed acupuncturist with practices in Manhattan and Nyack, New York, and the author of Chill Out and Get Healthy.

The most important part of being healthy is being in touch with yourself on an emotional and physical level. Being in touch with your reactions to situations. How they make you feel, how you express your emotions, what are you using to manage your stress? Then it's sleeping and eating sensibly, as wholesome and clean as possible. We're losing touch with our physical and emotional selves. Be in your body. If you're not in touch with yourself, good luck with that. Check in with yourself. Notice that you feel like crap when you eat that Snickers bar.  

Link Love

The Coke Vaccine, More Biggest Losers, and Women Should Play Soccer

• The web is all abuzz with news that there's a new vaccine for cocaine addiction. Somehow the vaccine creates antibodies that block coke's euphoric effects. "I was always under the impression that more coke is the remedy," quipped one Digg reader. Not to be confused with the Swine Flu vaccine....
• Over at David Barton, they're not handing out free coke, but you can get vodka samples on the weight room floor. Reality stranger than fiction. True/Slant blogger Katie Drummond thinks this is outrageous. New York Magazine thinks Katie is a prude and that David Barton is full of good ideas. 
• "The Biggest Loser" announced two new ventures today: A Wii and Nintendo DS game, and a Biggest Loser Resort in Southern Utah. For $2000 a week, you can mimic the experience of the show. This creates the exciting possibility of a "real reality" show featuring the people staying at the Biggest Losers Resort. Let it sink in.
• Not to be outdone by the show that made her, Jillian Michaels is out with a her own new Wii game, Jillian Michaels' Fitness Ultimatum 2010, which lets you work out at a fake tropical resort. Not to talk out of school, but is NBC totally cool with that?
• The Wall Street Journal says marathons are the new equivalent of crash diets. Apparently, you're better off running short distances year after year rather than doing the big plunge and burning out.
• Meanwhile, a new study out of Denmark says women should forget running altogether and opt for soccer leagues instead. Women who joined soccer teams were more likely to stick with their new physical activity thanks to the set schedule. The flexibility of running means too many chances to bail.
• Finally, in San Francisco there are now waitlists for Vibram Five Fingers shoes. (Thx Spindig!)