Changing just one seated meeting per week at work into a walking meeting increased the work-related physical activity levels of white-collar workers by 10 minutes.
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On Turning 40: Not Me, Silly – The Column!
Do I dare write a column celebrating 40 years of writing this column? “Why not?” I answer, striking the power pose. I’ve put in my 10,000-plus-plus hours. I’ve become an expert in healthy living, not to mention time spent on healthy dying, a...
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What To Do When Blood Test Results Are Not Quite ‘Normal’
“It’s tricky, because in some tests, a borderline result makes no difference. In others, it might indicate an important change in health that we need to follow or act on,” says geriatrician Suzanne Salamon, M.D., assistant professor at Harvard...
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The Elusive Fountain of Youth
More people may be living to 100, and beyond, than ever before. But the real challenge is how to become one of them, and how to care for an aging population. Noel H. Ballentine, M.D., director of geriatric health in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Penn...
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Performance Breathing: 2-2-4 Sets the Pace, Wins the Race
Why? Because whatever activity you do these days – walking, running, swimming, biking – you’ll do it better and relish it more if you learn to exercise a little control over your breathing. Call it “conscious breathing” or “performance breathing” or don’t name it at...
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Turn Away From Neck Pain
Neck pain is a nagging ailment that affects everyone at some time. In fact, approximately 80 percent of people experience neck pain during their lifetime, and 20 to 50 percent deal with it annually, according to Frank Pedlow, M.D., an orthopedic spine surgeon at...
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