Healthline Blogs
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Healthy Halloween - First Do No Harm
Halloween - the time when I takHalloween - the time when I take off my lab coat for work, and others put them on for costumes. A time when we dress as groups who pledge: "An it harm none, do what ye will" also stated as, "First, do no harm." Who a...
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Upper Back Exercise and Neck Pain Prevention Too
Western boxers and students of many martial arts are often taught to hunch their shoulders and lower their head to protect their neck. Box-aerobics students (and teachers) also often jut their head forward thinking it looks tough, or more authenti...
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Fast Fitness Friday
Beginning next Friday, I hope to post a fun technique each Friday that you can read quickly and use right away in a busy healthy lifestyle. Regular full posts continue the rest of the week.Watch for Fast Fitness.Send healthy requests and ideas.Pho...
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Happy Tax Day
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax" -- Albert EinsteinHealthier Sitting and Looking Over Your Work - Tax Preparation HealthNice Chair Stretch Break - Tax StretchGet Out of Your Chair and 'Unround' the Upper Back - Fast...
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What Abdominal Muscles Don't Do - The Missing Link
Did you know that your abdominal muscles have the most important function when you are standing?The person in the photo is not using abdominal muscles to prevent a common overlooked cause of lower back pain. The upper body is leaning and sagging b...
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Lifestyle Fitness for Kids Through Gardening
"Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration." ~ Lou EricksonInvolve children in gardening at any level. Getting outside to dig, bend, stretch, think, and create in the fresh air is health as a lifestyle - improving...
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Inspirational Update from Bill
In May, blog reader Bill (Lieutenant William Slabonik) sent an inspiring story - Freed From Pain, He Rides Again. Bill had been told by several sources that surgery and disability retirement were his only options. He used Fitness Fixer information...
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Fast Fitness - Recycling and the Movie "Garbage Dreams"
Here is Fast Friday Fitness - Recycling trash is honorable and beneficial for people and Earth.The word 'Zabal' is a person who collects trash. The Zabaleen of Cairo are a class of people who for generations, have collected the city's trash by han...
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What Medical Students Told Me About Nutrition
Early tomorrow we're traveling to the Great Smokey Mountains of Tennessee to teach for a week at the Wilderness Medical Society medicine elective. I posted about the elective in December.This year I will teach the medical students the entire curri...
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Mr. America Urges Goodness and Responsibility
Mr. Jim Morris is the 1973 AAU Mr. America and 1996 Mr. Olympia Masters Over 60. He is now 72. Mr. Morris is a vegan bodybuilder who reminds people that body building involves selflessly looking outward to do good, rather than focusing only on app...
