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Do you constantly think about food, find yourself eating when you aren’t hungry or when you are depressed? Do you eat in secret or eat much healthier in the company of others than when you are alone? Do you feel guilty right after eating? Do you continue to [...]
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Back on show #40, I talked about ways to minimize or avoid muscle soreness and muscle cramps during exercise. For those that didn’t hear that show, those are aches and pains that while painful, do not involve injury.
In this show, I am going to cover exercise related injuries. Specifically, [...]
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Have you ever noticed that after eating fast food, such as a cheap hamburger, fries and a soda, that you feel sluggish and tired afterwards? And maybe even unhappy or unmotivated as well? And have you ever noticed that after eating a healthy, nutritious meal you feel energetic, alert [...]
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It is that time of year again, where many of us start planning our next vacation. Vacations are a welcome break from the stress and monotony of work. They’re an opportunity to rest and recharge from the stresses of everyday life. Plus, they don’t have to be expensive, if [...]
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Did you know that skin is the largest organ in our bodies? It covers every part of us and we don’t pay much attention to it, with the exception of our faces, until it starts causing us problems, such as when we develop a rash and it starts itching.
Since all of [...]
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Sometimes, after a really hard workout, you feel so stiff and sore that it hurts to move. Getting out of bed or getting dressed is so painful that you can’t help grunting as you pull on your clothes. Or maybe you wake up with a cramp in your calf [...]
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Almost everyone has experienced a headache at one time or another. Headaches are one of the most common human ailments, after all. For most people, headaches are an infrequent annoyance that occur only a few times a year and rarely get in the way of everyday life. But for [...]
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In some ways, your brain functions like a muscle. If you don’t use it, you lose it. If you train it though, it works better. The more you challenge your brain, the better you are able to process and remember information and the better your memory is. So, [...]
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If you’ve ever forgotten where you put your keys, couldn’t remember the name of a movie or walked into a room and for the life of you couldn’t remember why you were there, this is the episode for you.
This is the first in a two part series on memory. [...]
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When most of us think of someone with high blood pressure (hypertension), we automatically think of an overweight, middle aged executive, that is wound up really tight and explodes at the slightest provocation. So, anyone that doesn’t fit that image feels pretty safe. But unfortunately, hypertension can [...]
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For most people, when they are feeling thirsty or tired and want an energy boost, they seldom reach for water or tea. They reach for a soda instead. Many of us are addicted to sodas. If we go a day without them, our energy levels go down and [...]
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Our culture is obsessed with weight. It seems that every person has a bathroom scale in their house and many people weigh themselves as part of their daily routine. Any weight gain is perceived as a change for the worse. And the media doesn’t make it any better. [...]
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This week we are going to do something different with the show. A few weeks ago on Show #26, I talked about my journey to becoming healthier. That show got a really positive response, so I thought that it would be interesting to all of you if I interviewed a guest occasionally and [...]
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Today’s episode is the second part of a two part series on stress. Last week on show #31, I discussed what stress is, how it effects our health, some unhealthy coping strategies and I covered the first of six healthy stress management techniques, which was exercise. Now, on [...]
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Today’s episode is the first in a two part series about stress. Now is an appropriate time for this topic because these are tough and stressful times for many people. Unemployment is up, home foreclosures are high and the stock market is way down. Some people have lost [...]
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