A Weighty Issue

MOST FOLK UNDERSTAND that to lose weight effectively and efficiently a combination of cut the calories and up the exercise is a must. But What Calories? This may mean tossing out Old Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard and renewing it with the good stuff. Not so easy if you...

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Thank You for the Music

Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing Thanks for all the joy they're bringing Who can live without it? I ask in all honesty What would life be Without a song or a dance, what are we? So I say thank you for the music For giving it to me —ABBA MUSIC, IN ONE...

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Wake Up, America… Move to Focus

IN 1933 VANVES, a tiny suburb of Paris, was the site of an 18 month experiment under the direction of Dr. Latarjet of the faculty of medicine, University of Lyons. Thirty children in the 11 year age who were judged to be the physically weakest due to hereditary...

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Get Fit a Bit at a Time

YOU MADE A PLAN but you didn’t start? You even wrote it down. But there it sits on your desk. Sometimes starting is the hardest thing to do. Success with anything rarely comes all at once. But you do have to start. When it comes to your fitness program, your I’m going...

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Correct Ergonomics: Not the Whole Answer

  ERGONOMICS DEFINED ERGONOMICS IS ROUGHLY DEFINED as the study of people in their working environment. An ergonomist analyzes, designs, and modifies the workstation to fit the worker with the goal of making the worker more comfortable and eliminating the risk of...

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What Are You Waiting For?

  BONNIE REMINDS US in her book, How to Keep Slender and Fit After Thirty… “Seldom do wonderful things happen while we wait.” “If you do something often enough, it becomes a habit.” “You can’t turn back the clock but you CAN wind it up again.” Unlike the Tin...

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Diabetes: A Hypokinetic Disease

  IN AN ARTICLE by Jack Rutherford, November 27, 2021, entitled What is Hypokinetic Disease? he writes: “Hypokinetic disease runs rampant in this country. Since “hypo” means too little, and “kinetic” means movement, the term hypokinetic means too little movement...

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Why Walk Backward?

  FOLKS HAVE BEEN walking backwards for hundreds of years. Known now as retro-walking men, most did it for money, impulsive bets, going for the record, bragging rights, AND just because they could. It turns out that this eccentric hobby has benefits for both your...

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Starting Right

  AT A RECENT “Food Is Medicine Summit” hosted by HHS, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack shared his personal problems growing up as an overweight child. Leaders of the USDA and FDA noted efforts the Biden administration is making to help Americans eat...

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Wounds, Fractures, and Breaks

  NO MATTER YOUR AGE, young or old, wounds, fractures, and breaks take longer to heal if they are to the lower leg/ankle/foot or forearm/wrist/hand. These areas are furthest from the heart and so action in the area of the hip where the lower leg and foot are...

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