Knowing your Body… and Your Body Worker

Sore knees?   Stretch out your hips.   Plantar fasciaitis?  Roll out those calves!  Chronic headaches?   Open up those shoulders! If we stop and think about how many of us walk around on a daily basis with chronic pain, it’s alarming.  Even more so when we consider the number that will likely go to […]

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221,314 Sugar Cubes

According to an article in Ad Age, that quantity of that drug is “the amount of sugar consumed during the average lifetime of a one-can-a-day soda drinker”, per Brita, the water filtration system. They displayed an  “all-white metropolis, built of sugar cubes, meant to symbolize that very amount of sugar” in their new ad last week. In addition, […]

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Eating Poor Quality Food, Late Night Eating and Reflux

A NY Times piece from last Sunday entitled The Dangers of Eating Late at Night shed light on how, in addition to America’s “poor diet, with its huge increases in the consumption of sugar, soft drinks, fat and processed foods”, another critical variable that is often overlooked with the correlation between these behaviors and the development […]

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Learning to Run

I was not always a fast runner. I’ve gotten more competitive but it didn’t start out that way. For years and years I raced open marathons and triathlons as a very middle of the pack participant. I was thinking about this today after a friend commented on a post I’d written recently about knowing it […]

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