Contemplating your mortality might sound morbid, but it’s actually a key to happiness.
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Healthy body, healthy mind! Physical Exercise, Fitness, Running, Jogging, Gym and Activity. Twitter Hashtag: #GymEd Curated by Peter Mellow |
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Contemplating your mortality might sound morbid, but it’s actually a key to happiness.
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In watching my beloved counsellor die, I finally learned how to live
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Grieving the queen’s passing can be different to grieving the loss of someone we were close to. It’s also complicated by politics, colonialism and the contest about who she really was.
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Voicemail had worked as a transitional object, helping me shift away from my mum’s physical self and toward a different kind of presence.
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After an ectopic pregnancy that ruptured, Georgina Scull spoke to people around the world facing death – and discovered the regrets they want us all to learn from
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Although confronting, the act of getting my affairs in order has provided much space for reflection – and gratitude
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An 18-year-old Perth woman who collapsed during extreme training for a Muay Thai fight was not prepared to tackle the ridicule in the sport's bullying culture, her mother tells an inquest.
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Douglas Casa, the chief executive of the Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut, named for a Minnesota Vikings tackle who died of heat stroke in 2001, said heat stroke is readily treatable with “100 percent survivability.”
“Jordan would have survived if he was treated properly,” Casa said of McNair, the Maryland player.
The onset of heat stroke is almost always preventable, too, Casa said, criticizing what he described as “crazy, ridiculous workouts” that players are subjected to, particularly in the off-season when training sessions are not always vigorously monitored and athletes can be subjected to “needless jeopardy.”
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A new study says too much exercise may increase the risk of heart disease—but you still shouldn't skip the gym, experts say
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When you come to the end of your life, how do you mark it's last moments?
This short documentary,Embracing Life, aims to take away the stigma attached to death and dying.
Talking to patients in
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Being severely obese can knock up to eight years off your life and cause decades of ill health, a report says.
The analysis showed being obese at a young age was more damaging to health and life expectancy.
The team, at McGill University in Canada, said heart problems and type 2 diabetes were major sources of disability and death.
Experts said people were frequently "ignorant" of the consequences of obesity.
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ONE MORE SUMMER - He hopes to beat his illness long enough to feel the summer sun again; she has a last party for her friends. Meet four people with their own ways of facing death.
How to say goodbye to your children.
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The Ice Water Challenge, where participants are doused with a bucket of ice cold water, is potentially fatal - even without alcohol, a doctor warns. - New Zealand Herald
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Watching three or more hours of television a day can double your risk of dying young, say researchers. - New Zealand Herald
yet another reason to stop being a couch potato...
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Losing weight is very hard, so it's not surprising many people succumb to the allure of miracle weight-loss pills and potions available online. But they do so at their own peril, as - New Zealand Herald
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A London Marathon runner who collapsed and died after crossing the finish line had struggled with “nightmare” pollution and breathing difficulties during training, it emerged today.
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The tobacco industry spent decades lying to the public about the health effects of its products and waging sophisticated marketing campaigns targeting children and low-income populations. As late as 1996, more than three decades after the original Surgeon General's report, tobacco industry executives famously testified -- under oath -- that nicotine isn't addictive and smoking doesn't kill.
Then in 2006, a federal judge found the major cigarette companies guilty of intentionally defrauding smokers and potential smokers for financial gain. Because the evidence established that the industry was likely to engage in continued fraud, the judge ordered the large tobacco companies to make "corrective statements" admitting their wrongdoing.
We have a long way to go to end suffering and death from tobacco use. Smoking will kill nearly half a million people in America this year and cost the country a staggering $130 billion in health care costs and lost productivity.
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The links between advancing age and deaths during gruelling exercise are strengthening.