Living smart with arthritis means protecting your joints during everyday activities. The following are a few tips from the American Medical Association for putting less stress on your joints and avoiding injury:
Avoid squatting and kneeling. Read the rest of this entry »
While your members may be aware that exposure to sunlight increases their risk of skin cancer, experts warn that exposure to ultraviolet light A (UVA), which is used in sun-tanning beds, increases the risk for melanoma – the most malignant type of skin cancer. Read the rest of this entry »
That question heard so often from your members: “What are the best ab exercises?” can be answered with “bicycle maneuver, captain’s chair and crunches on an exercise ball,” according to a recent study. The American Council on Exercise (ACE), San Diego, Calif., sponsored the study, which was conducted by San Diego State University, to determine the most effective abdominal exercises. Read the rest of this entry »
While the proportion of Americans getting their cholesterol tested has increased in the last decade, the nation still does not meet federal goals, according to a report released in the August 25th problem of the Centers of Disease Control’s Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report. Federal goals were to increase the number of Americans who have their cholesterol tested to 75 percent. The screening rate for the nation increased 3 percent, from 67.3 percent in 1991 to 70.8 percent in 1999. Read the rest of this entry »
Typical symptoms in patients with GERD are extremely important in making the diagnosis. It is important to note that heartburn, and more commonly dysphagia (difficulty swallowing), may be due to causes other than reflux disease. It should also be noted that extra-esophageal manifestations of reflux (symptoms attributable to organ systems other than the esophagus) may be due to primary disease in the upper or lower respiratory tract.
Symptoms of reflux disease can, however, be shown to be a consequence of reflux (stomach contents flowing backward into the esophagus) if they respond to a trial of reflux therapy. Thus, the first test that should be performed for such patients is a trial of therapy. Trials also can be considered in patients at low risk for serious complications from reflux disease (younger patients with shorter duration of symptoms who do not have any alarming symptoms such as weight loss, difficulty swallowing, low blood count, or gastrointestinal bleeding). Read the rest of this entry »
Endometriosis is a disease in which tissue from the uterine lining, the endometrium, somehow grows in other parts of the body, such as the abdomen, reproductive organs and elsewhere. Read the rest of this entry »
Muscular Fitness Exercises
Where two exercises are given for the same muscle group, choose one.
1A. Bent-over Barbell Row
Targeted muscles: upper back With your body bent forward at the waist, and your head supported by a stool or the back of a couch (to relieve pressure on your lower back), pull the barbell up to your chest in a rowing motion. Read the rest of this entry »
Hello, Paula!
Congratulations on your commitment towards improving your health. I would like to emphasize that even though losing weight may be a goal of yours (and one that you have achieved before), a lifelong regimen of regular exercise and healthy eating will bring about significant changes in your health, energy, and confidence — regardless of how much weight you lose.
On the heels of the ecstasy drug craze, a new fad is sweeping the London night scene. This time, though, the elixir is neither a pill, an inhaler, nor even a beverage. Rather, it is that most fashionable drug of the millennium age: money.
Followers of the new First Tuesday fad pour into selected venues at least once a month maniacally hoping to find mates with whom they can chase Internet riches. Read the rest of this entry »
OVERSTATED: Sky Dayton and Jake Winebaum, eCompanies Hard to say what this latest, biggest ebiz incubator has more of to burn: venture capital, or pure ego. Winebaum was Disney’s Web-Boy Wonder, the one who talked CEO Michael Eisner into investing in the much-hyped uber-portal Go Network (see “Ready. Set. Go?” Feb. ’99, p56) and a 43 percent share of Infoseek to make it happen. Read the rest of this entry »