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Moving Through Chronic Pain: How Exercise Can Heal What Hurts

Mar 31, 2020 ● By Julie Peterson

How gentle, gradual exercise routines can help to lower symptoms, enable better physical functioning and boost morale in chronic pain patients with virtually no adverse side effects.

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Vegan Fitness: A Healthy Choice for Body and Planet

Feb 28, 2020

A balanced vegan diet can provide everything an active body needs for muscle mass, stamina and recovery while lowering the risk of heart disease.

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Vital Steps: The Path to Vascular Fitness

Jan 31, 2020 ● By Rachael Oppy

Running, swimming, cycling, and playing tennis are all great boosters of vascular health, but even a simple brisk walk can do wonders for keeping blood vessels clear and flexible.

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When Workouts Don’t Work: Why Less Is Sometimes More

Dec 30, 2019

Exercise is a proven component in losing weight and preventing cardiovascular disease and diabetes, but working out can serve as a physical stressor. Here's how to find an optimal balance.

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Inhaling the Joy of Life: Conscious Breathwork

Nov 27, 2019

Mindfully guiding our breath back to its original rhythm helps lower stress and improve vagal tone, easing such conditions as depression, insomnia and pain syndromes.

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Click and Sweat: Virtual Workouts Change the Game

Oct 31, 2019

Between health and workout apps, online classes and electronic devices calculating distance and monitoring bodily functions, virtual fitness offers many personal exercise experiences.

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Animal Asanas: Goats on the Yoga Mat

Sep 30, 2019

By combining the already beneficial aspects of yoga, goat yoga amplifies the practice through the well-documented benefits of human and animal interaction.

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Walk or Run to Keep Blood Vessels and Brains Young: Benefits of Cardio Activity

Aug 15, 2019

After six months of marathon training, running novices reversed the aging of major blood vessels; in another study, heart failure patients that walked fast were less likely to have cognitive impairment.

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Take a Cerebral Spin: Cycling for a Healthier Brain

Aug 15, 2019 ● By Marlaina Donato

Pedaling away for even 20 minutes a day, indoors or outdoors, fires up brain cell production and lowers symptoms of depression – and that’s just the beginning of cognitive benefits.

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Forest Bathing: Mother Nature’s Rx for Body and Mind

Jun 28, 2019 ● By Marlaina Donato

What was once called ‘walking in the woods’ has a new moniker – forest bathing – as well as new research showing its unique abilities to boost our health and mood.

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