normalizing it all
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Many people have played the facebook game “What’s Your Real Age”. My guess that those who played it wanted to feel they were younger than their biological age. Telomere length seems to be the real way to determine actual “biological age”. These are the real “biological clocks”. Telomeres are repetitive sequences at the ends of [...]
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Training, dedication, and hard work (along with a good diet and a bit of rest carefully added) will go far in helping you improve your conditioning and body composition. Your performance will increase. But for most of us, we will not become world class athletes, or even national class athletes. That is no reason not [...]
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The obesity epidemic is certainly spreading faster than the Nile Virus. Mississippi is reportedly the most obese state and cracks the previous record by having over 30% of its adult population classified as obese. Colorado is the leanest at around 18%. The CDC has declared obesity to be a serious problem and feels that there [...]
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A story cites a program sponsored by Merck as a conflict when Dr. Gupta touts the benefits of an incompletely tested vaccine for the papilloma virus produced by Merck which almost ended up as a mandatory vaccination for young girls.
This was pointed out in Julie Deardoff’s “Julie’s Health Club“, a blog which appears on [...]
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Over the past several years the concept of well rounded young athletes playing 3 sports over the course of a year has died. Most want to be specialized in one sport. Whether the sport is soccer, baseball or running, we rarely see the child athlete playing football or soccer in the fall, basketball in the [...]
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A variety of conflicting studies and articles are coming out regarding high glycemic foods in performance. What impact do they have and what conflicting studies show is a future topic for us. Fructose is not considered an optimal source of carbs and the sports drinks and gels you use should be examined to make sure [...]
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Evidence Based Medicine vs. Sensationalism
The New York Times, today, in a fairly sensational manner, discusses Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and medications in vogue in reference to two medicines, including Zevalin, which at this time is used in cases of failure of other therapies. The accusastion being made is that physicians are not using Zevalin, a radioactive [...]
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Shoes: Are They Tiny Coffins? (What would Paul Brand, M.D. say?): Can Shoes Be "Tiny Coffins". Yes, they can.
(Please read comment section below. Author Chris McDo...
It Just Doesn't Add Up: Rocket Science and Healthcare: It just doesn't add up when you mix and match numbers that aren't meant to be simply added together....
