When we humans imagine ourselves “exercising,” we tend to focus on playing sports.
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Time for a Wake-Up Call
By Marilynn Preston For the first time in 20 years, the National Center for Health Statistics reported, life expectancy in the U.S. declined. This is a uniquely American phenomenon, points out Dr. Peter Muennig, a professor of health policy and management at Columbia...
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Best Lesson of the Last 40 Years? You are responsible for…
Even the good life is predictably unpredictable, and so are some of the developments I’ve seen over the last 40 years.
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The Rise of Pushups
The morning of my 50th birthday in May I did something I had not tried in a long time. I dropped to the floor and did 50 pushups, one for each year. I had to break it up into sets and the last few where shaky, but I did it. And it felt great. As a new member to the...
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How to Exercise Without Even Knowing It
In a review that appeared in the International Journal of Obesity, a group of scientists recently suggested that Americans are simply spending too much time talking about how our toxic food environment and our couch potato ways are making us obese. Perhaps there are...
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Unconventional Fitness: Squeeze Your Butt, Interval Training & Slower Weight Training
WHEN IN TRAFFIC, SQUEEZE. Body awareness is a marvelous thing. Take your butt, for instance. If you let nature take her course, you will, over time, notice it sagging and becoming listless. Buns of steel naturally turn into buns of cinnamon. Butt it doesn’t have to be...
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