REAL World Wellness

Was this intensive exercise intervention worthwhile? The answer is a resounding yes! The key results are as follows:

The exercise program slowed declines in physical function. Patients getting usual care declined an average of 14 points over 1 year on the functional independence measure. Patients getting home exercise declined 7 points and patients in the group exercise declined 10 points. (The difference between both exercise groups and usual care was statistically significant. The difference between the exercise groups was not significant) The exercise groups had far fewer falls. The group exercise subjects had 40% fewer falls, and the home exercise subjects fall rate was more than cut in half. This impact makes this study one of the most effective fall intervention programs ever devised Even when accounting for the cost of the intervention, the health costs in the exercise groups were not more expensive than the costs of usual care. The cost of this intensive intervention was compensated by lower rates of health service use in the exercise groups. This goes to show that the best things in life sometimes really are free.

The research, which analyzed 97 studies in all, found that people with BMIs under 30 but above normal (the overweight range) had a 6 percent lower risk of dying from all causes than those who were normal weight, while those whose BMIs fell into the obese range were 18 percent more likely to die of any cause.

Walk 30 minutes a day. It doesn't even have to be 30 continuous minutes. It can be broken up into smaller chunks.

Heart disease and cancer are still the top killers.

If anything, children of mothers who drank lightly had slightly better outcomes than kids whose moms did not drink at all during pregnancy, according to Yvonne Kelly, PhD, of University College London, and colleagues.

Running the opposite direction of McDonalds would also serve the purpose of moving and staying well. I doubt after eating a Big Mac, fries and soda that one would have the proper energy to run anywhere.

Yes, even fruit can have too much sugar in it. Be very conscious that sugars are lurking everywhere. For packaged food, read the labels. For fresh foods have some ideas what the relative amounts of sugar is.

Still no clear answer to the causes of the upsurge in autism but seems that time and again, the vaccine cause has gone unproven.

I am considering a career switch. My mom told me to go get my education and be a doctor. Perhaps she should have presented me the option of Mommie Porn writer. A lot more fun and less stress and laibility.

I like Christie. He gets the job done and is 'no nonsense'. I would vote for him. He has an issue that many in America have. I don't feel that his weight will affect how he governs, however, we do need to have a very fit VP behind him, just in case he succumbs to his size prematurely.

For those who have motivation to have exercise as part of their lifestyle here is your payoff. The lower resting heart rates of lifelong athletes gives you more years.

“If you have two healthy people,” said the lead author, Dr. Magnus Thorsten Jensen, a researcher at Copenhagen University Hospital Gentofte, “exactly the same in physical fitness, age, blood pressure and so on, the person with the highest resting heart rate is more likely to have a shorter life span.”

By nearly every measure, including fertility, stress resistance and longevity, flies that fed on organic bananas and potatoes fared better than those who dined on conventionally raised produce.

People feel happier about their sex life when they believe hey are having more sex than their peers.

I am in the group of worshippers of pleasure and enjoyment through healthful food and exercise. Nothing gives me a high like finishing a workout and eating whole natural food. Yes I love Gummy Bears and Twizzlers too as a once in a while extra.

I also enjoy being completely sharp and lucid. I enjoy the sensations of the world in real time.

The side effect of pain pills are so horrible for me. Dizziness, weakness, nausea, vomitting. I wonder how others can take these drugs and become addicted. EVeryone's body is different. Bodies like mine? I can't tell if the decrease in pain is worth the horrible way the drugs make me feel. 

I do realize that there are many people out there with problems physically and spiritually and American culture has created this time where we feel the answer is in a pill or alcoholic beverage. And as a WEstern-trained physican I take some of that responsibility in that WEstern medicine does a poor job of moving people off of the pill and onto another modality. AS flippantly as we prescribe the pills, we doctors rarely have a "Stopping the Pills" plan other than 'Your prescription ran out and you should be over this by now"

So yes, the pill worship is a big big problem a la Rush Limbaugh and Michael Jackson but perhaps the root of the problem lies with those of us who started prescribing without providing real assistance for people to get over their pains both phsycial and emotional.

Although the so-called Easter Bunny and Easter Eggs have nothing to do with the true meaning of Easter, I wil take this opportunity to educate you on the high quality nutritional info of eggs for those who ascribe to eating animal products.

And NO, eating whole eggs does not raise your blood cholesterol. Even if your cholesterol did increase, yourrisk of heart disease does not because we now know the the link between heart disease and cholesterol is a myth. Heart  disease is directly associated with inflammation cause by the likes up substances like sugar.

This is a thoughtful article about overzealous parents. Its easy for us to sit back and judge these parents but I recommend you look in the mirror at yourself directly and say "Have I ever done anything unscrupulous, immoral, shady to benefit my children over others?" It is way easy for us to criticize the moms on "Toddlers and Tierras" however considering the Law of Attraction, there is areason that you watch and criticize someone else.

Could it be you, Mom or you , Dad that these people respresent and thus you are scolding yourself without scolding yourself?

Parenting is one of the most difficult tasks and those who are the worse at it seem to have the most kids. The rest of us who are very circumspect stop when re realize that parenting really isn't all that fun 4 out of 7 days. 

But wait, the best is yet to come because as they grow up, our offspring begin to look at us differently and become like us and if your life becomes heaven its fun and games, but if somehow Johnny didn't get the 411 and you missed the marked or he just messed up because some kids are like that despite the best efforts of good parent (yes, do you really blame the parents when someone is a serial killer? C'mon) life is Hell because the world (i.e the media) will give you a beat down only few can survive.

So let's start a moment of compassionate parents where we commend others and forgive those with the "bad" kids or those parents who made a "wrong" because truly as Jesus said "They know not what they do". None us us really do. We make a judgment call and we all do the besst we know how for ourselves and for our children.