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31, and she did indeed reach the summit of Utah’s Ancient Art for the commercial. To get the shot shown at left, the Colorado-based jewelry designer and author of Girl on the Rocks, who usually climbs without ropes, had to stand on the peak for nearly two hours.

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there’s more opportunity because of reality shows,” says Johnson, 59, “but it has become more difﬁcult for models because actors are getting the magazine covers and product endorsements.” Johnson’s life today is chronicled on the OWN reality series Beverly’s Full House (Saturdays, 10 p.m. ET). I want to slow down and enjoy every second. Before I had my son, I was like, ‘What’s the next marker in my career?’ ” Check out his personal snapshots from The Voice at Parade.com/daly.

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Even superheroes need downtime! When Iron Man (played by Robert Downey Jr.) isn’t saving the world, he’s enjoying its spoils as billionaire alter ego Tony Stark. Here’s an exclusive look at the living room of Stark’s Manhattan pad, as imagined by production designer James Chinlund. 1. The set was built on a soundstage in New Mexico; the views of the Chrysler Building you’ll see in the ﬁnished ﬁlm were added digitally.

2. There are soft, homey touches, like the shag rug and orchids, because Tony is in a relationship (with Gwyneth Paltrow’s Pepper).

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3. The pedestal holds a prototype helmet from the ﬁrst Iron Man suit—a nod to Tony’s workshop, says art director William Hunter.

4. For the ﬁreplace, “James had the concept of a Noguchi sculpture,” Hunter says. “We joked that Tony would ﬂy in Noguchi to sculpt it.”

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on TV or hosting his radio show, Daly, 38, is either on the golf course (he played in college and toyed with the idea of going pro) or with his 3-year-old son, Jack. “I lost my father at a young age,” he says, “so fatherhood holds a special place for me.

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hree chefs walk into a restaurant. No, it’s not the setup for a joke; it’s what happened last month when a trio of celebrity whisk-wielders, Art Smith, Cat Cora, and Curtis Stone, convened in a Manhattan eatery to dish about how, in the midst of relentless culinary temptation, they manage to eat healthy and stay ﬁt. (Not one mentioned a high metabolism.) They weren’t just talking through their toques. Smith, 52, a former private chef for Oprah Winfrey and a partner in ﬁve restaurants, lost 120 pounds after being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2009. Cora, 44, the sole female chef on Iron Chef America and cohost with Stone of Bravo’s new Around the World in 80 Plates (which starts May 9), shed 25 extra pounds after giving birth to a son three years ago. Although Stone, 36, has never had trouble buttoning his jeans, the Australian-born star of The Celebrity Apprentice and Top Chef Masters says his fondness for food makes regular exercise mandatory to keep his physique TV-trim. The longtime friends and colleagues continually laughed and teased one another, but all got serious when discussing what goes into maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

PARADE: Which matters more: what and how

much you eat, or how much you exercise? SMITH: I

don’t think that you can do what we do without exercise. STONE: It’s all about balance. My way of achieving that balance is doing a load of exercise because I eat a lot of food. SMITH: I’ve known you for 10 years, and I don’t think you’ve ever had a problem with weight. STONE: The problem is I just absolutely love food.

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How much she lost:

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didn’t realize how big I’d gotten until I saw myself on Top Chef. Working late at night as a line cook, I would go out with the guys after work, drinking

c chefs, Wong learned very llittle about nutrition in cculinary school and needed help implementn iing a healthy diet. “A holistic health counselor h ttaught me to incorporate more vegetables and m whole grains, since I w used to eat a lot of prou ttein. That’s when the weight really started to come off.” Best advice: “Don’t fall for gimmicky products that seem healthy, like ﬂavored waters. They are loaded with hidden calories.” —M. N.

So do you all work out every day?

I run almost every day. I’m going to take my run in the park after this. I always keep a pair of running shoes at work and I have running shorts on under my jeans. CORA: I will also be working out after this. When I’m home in Santa Barbara, I run, because I have the beach right there. But when I’m on the road, I do the elliptical. STONE: Cat’s good. Cat and I traveled the world together [for Around the World] and she would exercise every day. I totally let it go on that trip. I just ate and drank. SMITH: I always run into you at the gym. You’re always working out. STONE: Not today. But when I’m home [in Los Angeles, where he lives with Lipstick Jungle actress Lindsay Price and their infant son], I surf. SMITH:

Rocco DiSpirito, 45 Host of Rocco’s Dinner Party on Bravo; author of the Now Eat This! series

How much he lost:

40 pounds The turning point: “My

doctor diagnosed me with high blood pressure and high cholesterol, and he gave me a list of prescription medications that I could take. But I wanted to see if I could [improve my numbers] on my own.”

What made the biggest difference: Getting in

touch with his inner jock. “Five years ago I decided to sign up for a triathlon. During training, you have to eat a lot of food, but high-quality calories. I learned to cook the food I love in healthy ways.” Today, DiSpirito has completed more than a

dozen triathlons, includ-ing an Ironman in 2009. Best advice: “Stay away from processed food, whether it’s premade pasta sauce or frozen pizza. It’s easier than you’d think to make yourr own, and it will not only taste better, it’ll be healthier, too.” —Melba Newsome

Cat and Art, you’ve both lost weight successfully. What’s your single best tip for taking—and keeping—it off?

Exercise is 50 percent of it. It’s a good way to start, because it makes you feel better. And cut out sugary sodas and fast food. SMITH: A wonderful big leafy green salad will change your life every day. CORA: That’s good. STONE: And drink a lot of water. I’d also say have some food rules. It might be “I don’t eat fried CORA:

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How much she lost:

70 pounds The turning point:

“With two Italian grandmothers, I started cooking at age 4—and dieting at age 8—but I had a hard time ﬁnding a diet I could stick with. By age 15, I was close to 200 pounds. My life changed when I read that you can lose 10 pounds a year by cutting 100 calories every day. That was huge because I would never be able to give up my favorite foods—like desserts—forever.” Biggest temptation:

Writing The Biggest Loser Dessert Cookbook. “I prepared over 400 desserts

You mean with food, right? [everyone laughs] Tacos—because we don’t have them in Australia, so they’re relatively new to me. Once or twice a week, I’ll do a late-night run down to an East L.A. taco truck. CORA: I have ice cream, butter pecan. It’s my little treat a few nights a week. Give me a few bites of that, you know? We have a great place in Santa Barbara, McConnell’s, and they make their own. STONE: McConnell’s, yeah, yeah, yeah! SMITH: I love pizza. I met my husband [artist Jesus Salgueiro] over pizza. I need to have it at least once a week. But there’s a lot of bad pizza; I won’t put it in my mouth if it’s not artisan or handmade. STONE: No deep dish? CORA: Thin crust is where it’s at, I’m telling you. STONE: I don’t understand deep dish. SMITH: It’s too thick. STONE:

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from 85 recipes and had to taste them all. Before I started, I made a commitment to eat salad, vegetables, chicken, and ﬁsh the rest of the day—no lasagna, no fries.” Best advice: “Look for easy ways to shave calories. For example, ovenbaking instead of frying the chicken for chicken Parmesan saves 100 calories without sacriﬁcing taste.” —M. N.

Cat, you’ve got four young sons [with partner Jennifer], and Curtis, you have a new baby boy. How do you get kids to eat healthy?

At [age] 3, start saying to them, “Let’s all make a family decision about dinner tonight. Do we want chicken or salmon? Do we want broccoli or edamame?” Give two options, not three, four, ﬁve. The more invested they are in the meal, the more likely they are to eat it. STONE: My boy is too young, but I have a big veggie garden, and I get my nephews invested in food that way. I let them plant seedlings and then later they pick the zucchinis. They’re excited to eat it because they’ve been a part of it. I know Art does a lot of that with Common Threads [a charity Smith founded in Chicago that teaches low-income children how to cook wholesome and affordable meals]. SMITH: As Curtis and Cat said, you have to engage them. Treat them as adults; serve fresh foods, organics, sushi, curries, and things like that. Don’t dumb it down.

Yeah, don’t dumb it down for them. I’ll sit around with a salad, or bring home sushi, and my kids will eat off of my plate. They want to try it, to eat what we eat. CORA:

Cat, you’re from Mississippi originally, where even the pickles are fried. What’s a healthy but still delicious alternative to frying food?

You can grill or bake, roast, steam, or do a quick sauté. STONE: There’s a million ways to do it, but it takes a bit more creativity. The beautiful thing about frying is that it gives you this incredible texture. But you can also get an incredible crunchy texture from raw vegetables and from things like dried kale that you dry in the oven. CORA: Drying kale is great. I also have a couple recipes where I coat fish sticks and chicken strips with nonfat buttermilk and crushed cornflakes. Crush the flakes, roll it in that, and bake it really crisp. Art, don’t you do that? SMITH: Yeah, I developed an Unfried Chicken. Basically, it’s fancy Shake ’N Bake with multigrain flakes. It’s the No. 1 seller at LYFE Kitchen [his health-conscious restaurant in Palo Alto, Calif.]. CORA:

CORA:

food” or “I won’t eat processed carbs after 3 p.m.” Establish a few rules in your diet that you just don’t cross. If we’re establishing rules, let’s lay down some for smart snacking. What are your favorite healthy nibbles?

For me, it’s either soup or dips. I’ll make them up at the start of the week and keep them on hand in the fridge. So then whenever I get hungry, I can heat up a little cup of soup, or get some carrot sticks and some hummus. CORA: Mine’s probably a little light cheese, crackers, almonds, and hummus. SMITH: Bananas. Easy and portable. I love them. CORA: Be careful, don’t eat too many. They’ll constipate you. STONE:

Get More Chef Secrets to Staying Slim! Go to dashrecipes.com/chefs for more chef-tested weight-loss tips and tricks, slimmeddown recipes for your favorite foods, and exclusive behind-the-scenes video from our photo shoot. Plus, on Monday at 1:30 p.m. ET, join us at Facebook.com/parademag for a live chat with Curtis Stone!

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Biggest temptation: “I

How much he lost:

90 pounds The turning point: “I’ve

been a foodie all my life. As a kid, instead of cartoons, I watched Julia Child and The Frugal Gourmet. I kept gaining weight until ﬁve years ago, when my son was born. I was 250 pounds and didn’t want to be that dad who couldn’t go to the park or run around with my kid.”

have to travel constantly for work, and it’s hard to stick to a regular diet when your schedule is chaotic. It’s very tempting to grab airport junk food. I try to avoid that by always traveling with healthy snacks like nuts or dried fruit.” Best advice: Get on an exercise regimen and stick with it, even if you don’t see immediate results. “When I started, I could barely run a block, and there were months and months of pain in my legs. But I didn’t give up because it was for my son. Now I run daily and ride my bike everywhere.” —M. N.

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Put down the spoon, pick up a carrot. In the kitchen, “you can be tasting and feel like you haven’t eaten anything, but meanwhile you’ve already ingested 800 to 1,000 calories in sauces alone,” says Michelle Bernstein, chefowner of Michy’s and Sra. Martinez in Miami. Her solution: “Dipping lettuce or a carrot means my body doesn’t trick my mind into thinking I haven’t eaten anything, plus it means I’ve had something nutritious (but not highly caloric) before the meal.” meal.

Like to snack? Make it a meal. “I’m a nervous eater,” says Andrea Reusing, chef-owner of Lantern in Chapel Hill, N.C. “Some nights I ﬁnd I’ve eaten my day’s calories in croutons.” Rather than curb her grazing, she stopped sitting down to a meal after a shift spent tasting sauces and meats and found she wasn’t missing anything. “Breakfastlunch-dinner is not always the way to go,” agrees Marcus Samuelsson, chef-owner of Red Rooster Harlem in New York City. “A lot of people in the world don’t eat that way, and they’re in great shape.”

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I’m addicted to sugar. I could eat pints of the stuff. STONE: If I could make a Hummingbird Cake [a signature Smith confection] like you do, then I would be addicted to sugar as well. CORA: You can do fruit, with a tiny little bit of fresh whipped cream on it. Or use a sweetener like agave or a little honey. SMITH: I like to get really good, sweet fresh fruit and pair it with delicious Greek yogurt. That’s like the best snack ever, and it is high in protein. SMITH:

And you can sweeten it with a little honey, too. STONE: There’s dried fruit as well. And, like Art said, mix it with natural yogurt. SMITH: It’s so great now that yogurt is so mainstream. CORA: [joking] Wait until the Cat Cora brand comes out. CORA:

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learned in g grade school that before e exercising, we should lean over, touch our toes, and str streeetttch the muscles. Bu But in the past two decades decades, study after study has sh shown that socalled static stretching, in which you ho hold a stretch for 30 secon seconds or more, doesn’t prep prepare muscles for activity; iin fact, it can do the opposite. oppos Those toe touches will inhibit the activation of muscles, making them weaker, for about half an hour. On the other hand, evidence shows that d dynamic stretching, o or moving your body through a range of motions, leaves your muscles and joints much better prepared. Try hopping in place 5 or 10 times, throw in some jumping jacks, skip forward and backward, and then start your routine. continued on page 18 April 29, 2012 • 15

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It’s never too late to get ﬁt. When Mark Tarnopolsky,

M.D., a professor of pediatrics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, took mice bred to age at an accelerated rate and had them start running as late teenagers, the course of their lives changed. Within ﬁve months (the equivalent of nearly 20 years in people), the nonrunning control mice were frail, gray, bald, and dying. But the runners still had virtually all of their youthful muscle mass, balance, mental acuity, and fur. In another study, after elderly rats were made to start running, the cellular makeup of their leg muscles soon changed. The muscles began to teem with new satellite cells, a specialized type of stem cell that aids in the building and repair of muscle tissue. Their legs also displayed less fat marbling than those of sedentary elderly rats. The “positive impact of exercise,” the study’s author concluded, “may have an ameliorating effect in aging.” A few months of working out had made the rats, in effect, biologically younger. Gretchen Reynolds is the Phys Ed columnist for the New York Times and the author of The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer (April 26, Hudson Street Press).

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