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How to Turn Raking Leaves into a Healthy Workout
One of the most effective ways to get and keep getting physical exercise is to make it an enjoyable job. While raking leaves may not be at the top of your list of fun tasks, that attitude can change...
More Evidence of the Brain-Body Health Connection: Cardio Fitness Early in Life Gives a Boost to Memory Later in Life
Evidence of the Brain-Body Health Connection:`In recent years, there have been a number of studies concluding that people who are more active and engage in cardiovascular fitness exercise when...
3 Spinal Decompression Options Explained
Severe back pain is not just unpleasant—it can be debilitating, preventing you from performing your daily routine and even confining you to bed for days. In decades past, patients suffering from...
A Brief History of Physical Education in America’s Schools
School-based American physical education's history goes all the way back to Greece in 386 B.C. at Plato’s school, named simply Akademia, or “The Academy.” The Greek philosopher well understood the...
Do Cooler Temperatures Really Help With Weight Loss?
Those who are a bit overweight and are trying to lose a few pounds are generally aware of many of the factors that make it harder to lose weight: the prevalence of high-fat, high-sugar junk foods...
Learning to Love the Gym: Top 10 Tips for Keeping Your Workouts Interesting
With America’s obesity epidemic on the rise, it has never been more important for people to get regular physical workouts. There are a great number of benefits gained by getting regular exercise at...
Growth Plate Injuries: What Parents Should Know
For a child, falling down is almost inevitable and generally doesn’t result in a trip to the emergency room. However, even minor falls can sometimes cause serious injuries. If you hear a cracking...
What is Cryotherapy?
A fairly new form of therapeutic treatment, cryotherapy involves temporarily exposing the body to extremely cold temperatures in order to encourage healing and achieve other health-related goals....
How Much Protein Should You Have in Your Diet?
In recent years, we have been introduced to a variety of "pop" diet plans such as the Atkins Diet and the Paleo Diet that promise weight loss and better health as the result of substituting protein...
What is Complementary and Alternative Medicine?
When most people hear the term “mainstream medicine”, they probably have a pretty accurate intuitive understanding of what it means. It refers to the standard care that patients receive in doctors’...
The Fitness Logic of Cross-Training
There's a very prevalent misconception in the amateur fitness logic ranks that mastering one type of exercise will result in whole-body fitness. An avid runner may think she’s reached the pinnacle...
Chiropractic Care and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
After years of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, large numbers of U.S. servicemen and women have returned home with a wide range of physical and psychological injuries. While the American media has...