Healthline Blogs
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Fast Fitness Halloween
Here is Fast Friday Fitness - Encourage health, not disease on Halloween.Instead of junk candy, what about:Give "Pledge to be Drug Free" stickers. If you don't have preprinted stickers, easily make some with blank stickers or labels, colored marke...
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Olympic Fast Friday
Here is Friday Fast Fitness - learn some Chinese for the Olympics.The Olympic ceremonies start at 8:08 p.m. on the 8th day of the 8th month in 2008. Eight is an auspicious number for the Chinese. Whether you agree or disagree with politics in the ...
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Fast Fitness - Contest for Children (and Everyone) To Learn What They Live
Here is Fast Friday Fitness - a contest for your kids, students, co-workers, and teams to reinforce healthy movement, deeds, and thinking as part of normal everyday life. It's one thing to say it, or read it, and better to do it and live it:Choose...
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Fix Scoliosis and Arthritis Pain, Fix New Orleans
This story came in from Marla:"I would like to take this opportunity to tell you that after suffering for many years from back (scoliosis) and neck (arthritis) pain, it was my good fortune to happen upon your website. I read every word, tried the...
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Academy Awards - Academy of Functional Exercise Medicine Awards Leading World Health 2009
It is an honor to announce the 2009 award winners of the Academy of Functional Exercise Medicine, AFEM. I am director of the Academy, and work (unpaid) for it to be an international resource for people and communities to learn to be healthy in bod...
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Getting Stronger Without a Gym
I often hear from trainers, and read in exercise books, that you cannot get stronger without lifting weights. They say that body weight is not enough. Then I watch the trainers and read what the exercise books say to do to strengthen. Often the we...
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Free Wiki-DVD Project of Fitness Fixer Techniques
Reader Sandra wrote:"Hi Dr. Bookspan:I would love it (as I'm sure countless others would) if you would produce and make available workout DVD's for healthy and safe weight lifting, cardio and yoga workouts. Since reading your material I've been d...
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Thank you Dr. LaPuma for Grand Rounds
Thank you Dr. John LaPuma for Grand Rounds 3.16 this week on his website, Let Food Be Your Medicine.Dr. LaPuma featured my post Stomach Acid Drugs Increase Osteoporosis and Hip Fractures. The post offers several good foods which work better than s...
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Thank You Grand Rounds 5.13 - Best Posts of the Year
Thank you to the blog A Chronic Dose for hosting the "Best Medical Posts of The Year" edition of Grand Rounds and including my post including my post Innovation in Abdominal Muscles.The web edition of Grand Rounds is a weekly collection of the bes...
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Neutral Spine Fun For Kids and Adults
As kids become pre-teens, the slight normal inward curve of the lower spine often increases too much. Large degree of hyper-lordosis (swayback) is often written in medical textbooks as normal development, however, my physician colleagues who see p...
