What Exactly Causes Constipation and How to Prevent It!

In a normal healthy person, the bowel movement or the emptying of the bowels is supposed to happen swiftly and with ease. If you have had difficulty ever since you were a child, you may have come to realize that some amount of straining at emptying of the bowels is normal. It is not. It is supposed to happen with complete ease with no straining whatsoever. However it doesn't mean that if you have to strain a little, once in...

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5 Tips to Boost Your Health in a Natural and Fulfilling Way

The body is a complex network of systems that has so many demands. One of the demands the body has is the right diet. When we eat, we give it what it needs, but sometimes it is important to supplement these foods with others in order for the body to fully achieve all its requirements. What are the different types of the supplements and their benefits in our bodies? 1. Vitamins Vitamins are important. They are classified...

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7 Best Upper Body Strength Exercises From a Medford Personal Trainer

Strength training is very important for any overall fitness program and having a strong upper body has many advantages. Having a high level of overall lean muscle can aid in a long term elevation of your metabolism and the upper body features some very large muscle groups including the pectorals major (chest), rhomboids and latissimus dorsi (back muscles) along with the entire shoulder girdle. Balanced upper body strength also...

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Strength Training - Why Do It and How to Start

It is generally well known that we lose bone mass as we age, a phenomena that affects women more than men and that far too often results in bones that are weak and prone to break, especially in the hips, wrists and shoulders. Unfortunately, although in many cases surgical procedures now produce excellent results (we have a number of clients that have returned to running after hip replacements), too many people don´t fully recover...

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Why Is Healthy Living So Damn Hard?

We all know the rules: eat healthy food, exercise for 30 (or 60 or 90 depending on who's talking) minutes a day, don't smoke, don't drink, don't don't don't. We know the rules but we break them every day! We make New Year's Resolutions every single year, and we break them almost immediately. We promise ourselves, "tomorrow's the day" and then we break the rules. And we beat ourselves up over it. I say "we" because everyone...

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