Healthline Blogs
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Gaze Perseid Meteors Without Neck Pain
This weekend in the Northern Hemisphere, the moon will be new, and the night dark, and the skies filled with the shooting stars of the Perseid Meteor shower.Every 130 years or so, the Swift-Tuttle comet circles the Sun, streaming icy, dusty debris...
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Thank You Grand Rounds 4.04
Thank you NY Emergency Medicine for hosting Grand Rounds 4.04 this week. On the web, each Grand Rounds is a post by someone who does the meticulous work of gathering their choices for the best medical posts of the week.NY Emergency Medicine incl...
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When Did Health Become Thinking Out Of The Box?
We're just back from teaching the medical school elective in wilderness medicine. Each year I teach there, working over my birthday. Same food as last year. But the creek was thinly iced - good for ice swimming.Before lecturing, I worried that my...
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Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans
This morning, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released "The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans." The guidelines describe, "the types and amounts of physical activity that offer substantial health benefits." ...
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Good Deeds With Good Bending
Here is Fast Friday Fitness - do good deeds using good bending. Readers Jeff and Sabrina made and sent this video:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBXyNQHkjeE&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0] if the movie doesn't load here, try:http://www.vegs...
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Thank You MyThreeShrinks for Grand Rounds 3.32
Thank you MyThreeShrinks for hosting Grand Rounds 3.32 this week at their site Shrinkwrap, and for including my post Exercise Your Sense of Humor. They also produced a podcast.The Internet version of Grand Rounds is a weekly medical web post that...
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Fast Fitness - Contest: What Does It Take To Sit Upright?
Here is Fast Friday Fitness - a Contest!Conventional beliefs about posture include that you must do certain exercises or stretches or strengthening to change your posture. Is that true?Look at photo 1 and 2 and answer the simple question below:Pho...
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Rocky IV and Head Injury
The BBC news reported this week that, Kickboxing 'causes brain damage.' The news story stated that a recent study showed: "Kickboxing can cause damage to the part of the brain which controls hormone production." However, it is not kickboxing, but ...
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Fast Fitness Friday - Strong Spirit
If someone cuts you off on the road or in a line and pushes ahead of you:Smile, nod, and wave them ahead.They may be on their way to the hospital. They may have just lost their job, their mother, their child. It may be their last day on Earth. The...
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No More Ankle Sprains Part II
The previous post How To Treat Ankle Sprains and Prevent Them promised another effective technique on the missing link in preventing and rehabbing ankle sprains in today's post. It follows below. First, it made news yesterday that a well known nam...
