Healthline Blogs

  • Ivy Fixes Neighbors Fitness - Making Results Last

    Ivy from New Zealand continues making her community healthier, one neighbor at a time. What does she do that helps so many? Here are just a few stories from her many updates:In December 2009, Inspirational Ivy wrote me:"Thought I would share this ...

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  • Fixing Posture - No Exercises Needed

    A widespread myth is that to fix posture you must strengthen sets of muscles.After spending time and money on strengthening exercises, people often wind up as stronger people with the same poor body position. The fallacy is that strengthening does...

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  • How To Join a Free Gym

    Here is Friday Fast Fitness - how to get healthy, fun, functional natural exercise, get fresh air and needed sunshine, break out of old ruts, laugh, feel young, strengthen arms, legs, hands, practice balance, try something new, all at no charge:Go...

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  • World Vegetarian Day

    "Vegetarians have the best diet. They have the lowest rates of coronary disease of any group in the country. [T]hey have a fraction of our heart attack rate and they have only 40 percent of our cancer rate."—William Castelli, M.D., Director, Frami...

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  • Fast Friday - More Exercise Biking and Help Save the Planet

    Here is Friday Fast Fitness - make light for more visible bike riding without battery waste and power pollution:Image via WikipediaGet an inexpensive bicycle light generatorUse you brains and hand motor skills to install it on your bicycle wheel w...

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  • Thank You Grand Rounds 6.8 Health Insurance Colorado

    Thank you Louise Norris for hosting Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 8 this week from the blog Health Insurance Colorado and including my article Fourth Group Functional Training Exercise, Functional Upper Back Stretch among the best medical writings of th...

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  • Thank You Grand Rounds 6.9 How to Cope with Pain

    Thank you to the blog How to Cope with Pain for hosting Grand Rounds Volume 6, Number 9 this week and including my article Reps of Exercises Don't Fix Pain; Fixing Causes Does in the list of best medical writing of the week.How to Cope with Pain i...

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  • Thank You Grand Rounds 6.20

    Thank you Edwin Leap at edwinleap.com for hosting Grand Rounds 6.20 this week and including the Fitness Fixer article New Understanding of Hyperlordosis and Disc Injury among votes for best medical writing of the weekNew Understanding explains how...

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  • Thank you Grand Rounds 3.31

    Thank you Dr. Liana Hwang for hosting Grand Rounds this week and including my post Does an Exercise Ball Make You Sit Straight?Grand Rounds is a weekly medical web post that recommends notable medical blog posts from the week.

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  • Photos Temporarily Not Uploading

    Fitness Fixer articles this week have been delayed. The blogging program is not accepting photo uploads to illustrate the posts.Thanks for your patience. When things go wrong, smile and use the time for something good. In the meantime, See if your...

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M.Ed, PhD, FAWM

Dr. Bookspan is an award-winning scientist whose goal is to make exercise easier and healthier.

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