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Midnight Chocolate Cake With Fudge Icing by Sandy Todd Webster We all need a little indulgence now and again to keep things balanced. With this recipe you can have your cake and eat it, too! IDEA member Cappie Geis—who is also a certified nutritionist and professional cooking instructor—specializes in recipe makeovers that replace key ingredients with healthy substitutes so as to cut calories and fat without sacrificing flavor. The unsweetened cocoa in this recipe adds an antioxidant kick that will satisfy your chocolate cravings and help chase away oxidative stress. IDEA Home Study Continuing education quizzes: Get up to 5 CECs quickly with quizzes from this issue. Are Plant Sterols Important to My Diet? by Rebecca Reeves Nutrition: How small amounts of certain foods can reduce cholesterol. If you or your clients are concerned about lowering your blood cholesterol levels, you probably need to know more about plant sterols, also known as phytosterols. Plant sterols occur naturally in a host of foods—primarily soybean oil, nuts, seeds, legumes and some fruits and vegetables. Because plant sterols are chemically similar to cholesterol, the human body tends to absorb them and pass cholesterol out of the body as waste. The net result is that consuming foods rich in plant sterols can reduce the body’s blood cholesterol levels. BE: The transformation at the 2012 IDEA World Fitness Convention™! by Mary Monroe Come to beautiful San Diego to celebrate 30 years of industry progress—and create your own vision for a powerful future in fitness. Where are you going to be on July 5–8? Come join us at the world’s biggest celebration of fitness and have a blast on the sunny Pacific coast, taking a fun look back through history—and an inspiring look forward to the future. Full-Body Pilates Circuits by Erika Quest Teaching Skills: Make the most of your assets, time and expertise with an equipment-based class. Circuit training is an excellent way to maximize time in your Pilates studio while utilizing different equipment and props. It’s also a nice way to help clients through a mental plateau, because circuit training combats boredom and shifts neuromuscular patterns. From Fitness Entrepreneur to Master Instructor Trainer by Shirley Archer, JD, MA Studio Profile: PJ O’Clair’s pursuit of excellence and commitment to service have led to a career of leadership in program development, exercise instruction and studio success. “Movement saved my life,” says PJ O’Clair, owner of ClubXcel/Northeast Pilates in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. O’Clair started her fitness career teaching jazz dance at 16 years old. Lineage Links: Mary Bowen, Part 1 by Rosalind Gray Davis Lineage Links: An inspired Pilates elder talks about her enduring and endearing inner and outer journey with Pilates. First-generation master teacher Mary Bowen is a Pilates treasure. At 81, she still shares her distinctive blend of Pilates and Jungian psychoanalysis with students as a full-time practitioner, calling her combined approach Pilates Plus Psyche. Uniting the Industry: Transformation Stories by Mary Monroe Uniting the Industry: Pilates instructors and their clients share how group classes helped them make positive changes. Can the group Pilates experience provide substantial benefits to clients? Nothing speaks louder than results! For this issue, we asked Pilates instructors and their clients to talk about the transformations they’ve experienced from group Pilates classes.