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Bring on the Beat!: Workout music pumps up motivation, while building fitness.

Apr 04, 2011 03:02PM ● By Joan McCutcheon

Who can keep their feet still and their body-motor idling while listening to Steppenwolf’s Born to Be Wild? Or, for post-Boomers, AC/DC’s T.N.T.? As Sonny and Cher sang succinctly in The Beat Goes On, “Drums keep pounding a rhythm to my brain.” Music is, indeed, the magic that can boost our heart rate, energy levels and mood—it’s a perfect workout buddy.

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Half Moon Yoga Pose- Bending with Life

Apr 04, 2011 02:51PM ● By Linda Morse

The yoga posture, Half Moon, allows for an opening of the ribs as the torso twists laterally. This movement is one of three pairs of ways to move the spine, but one which we do not ordinarily perform in our daily life. We practice this to learn to bend with what life presents to us, building our internal strength and flexibility.

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Chi Walking: Daily Steps to Focus, Strengthen and Energize

Apr 04, 2011 01:48AM ● By Katherine and Danny Dreyer

Earlier generations recognized the amazing effects that walking has on health. G. M. Trevelyan, a noted English historian, wrote in the 1920s: "I have two doctors. My left leg and my right."

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Healing Arts by the Ocean

Apr 01, 2011 01:53AM ● By John Walcott

Whether you are doing Qi-gong, T’ai chi chuan, Yoga, meditating or just walking, practice by the ocean has real therapeutic benefits. The ancient Chinese regarded life force or qi received from the environment of the ocean to have a strong cleansing and purifying effect on the three layers of the body’s energy field, thereby helping to boost the immune system. They believed that the body’s cells absorb the light, energy and resonant vibrations that are stored in oceans, lakes, streams and rivers and now western science is proving them right.

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Connect with the Warrior Within

Apr 01, 2011 01:46AM ● By Linda Morse

The yoga posture Warrior II, is sometimes called the Hero Pose. This exemplifies the proud warrior and engages all the strength we posses in a calm and controlled manner. We radiate out in all directions with the courage to meet life exactly as it is. Through any of life’s issues – past, present and future – we remain grounded.

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Exercises for Lower Back Pain

Apr 01, 2011 01:45AM ● By Dr. Daniel Weber

The most effective exercises for lower back pain and injuries are all classified as 'Dynamic Stabilization Exercises' (DSE). The theory behind these types of rehabilitative exercise is to achieve strengthening of the core muscle stabilizers of the spine, while keeping the patient in a neutral spine position. In other words, we are going to get the back strong again without putting undue stress and strain on the injured disc, facets and ligaments.

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Taming Obesity

Apr 01, 2011 12:53AM ● By Diane Carr

Obesity is out of control. Characterized by a much higher amount of body fat than lean muscle mass or when one’s body mass index (BMI) is over 30, obesity is wreaking havoc in the general population with side effects that include diabetes, cardio-vascular disease, cancer, sleep apnea, arthritis, menstrual abnormalities, hyperlipidemia, and Alzheimer’s. Deepti Sadhwani, MD confronts these problems head on by helping patients understand obesity and how to get it under control. With 1.7 billion people world wide overweight or obese and the number of obese adolescents tripling over the last 20 years, the time has come to tame the obesity beast.

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Exercise Detox: Six Ways to Burn Calories and Clean Out Your System

Feb 28, 2011 05:45PM ● By Annie B. Bond

Try these suggestions to rev up your metabolism, burn calories, build muscle and clean out your system.

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Fit Body

Bring on the Beat!: Workout music pumps up motivation, while building fitness.

Half Moon Yoga Pose- Bending with Life

Chi Walking: Daily Steps to Focus, Strengthen and Energize

Healing Arts by the Ocean

Connect with the Warrior Within

Exercises for Lower Back Pain

Taming Obesity

Exercise Detox: Six Ways to Burn Calories and Clean Out Your System

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