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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Just Because… Arthritis
JUST BECAUSE YOUR knee hurts and you are over 65 doesn’t mean you have arthritis. Just because you are 40 and don’t hurt doesn’t mean you don’t have arthritis. Most people don’t know whether or not they have arthritis unless they are X-rayed. And many who are...
Whatsa Body to Do?
IT IS SAID THAT each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world. The latest report from the World Obesity Federation predicts that 51% of the global population will be living with...
It’s A New Day!
IT IS A NEW DAY! The sun is up! It brings warmth and light and the promise of joy. It is one of the few things you can count on these days that is a good thing. See Annie’s Song at the end of this article. But if you are achy and tired maybe you’d rather just...
Hands Up
YOU HAVE ONLY to note the appliances offered for sale in the catalogs that arrive daily to guess at how many Americans are plagued with hand and wrist problems of one kind or another. Our hands and fingers seem to be very vulnerable to arthritis, tingling,...