Today’s Fashion Can Be Tomorrow’s Pain Created inNewsletter Library Looking your best might not always be the best thing for you. Today’ssociety is extremely fashion and style conscious. Unfortunately, clothingdesigners and stylists aim to please by creating unique looks that mightnot always be practical or even comfortable. The look of the season shows runway models…

To Lift or Not to Lift? Created inNewsletter Library,Exercise & Fitness If a great Shakespearean protagonist had, anachronistically, joined a gym, his internal existential inquiry might have been, “To lift or not to lift?”. Many centuries later, the identical inquiry, or controversy, persists. Joining a gym (health club) usually implies the new club member is…

Tips for Safe and Healthy Travel Created inNewsletter Library,Healthy Tips Here come the holidays – Thanksgiving, Channukah, Christmas, and New Year’s. And the travel – Thanksgiving is one of the biggest travel days and the day before Christmas is just as busy. If you’re flying, you know what to expect – long lines, delays, crowded…

Tips for Good Hip Health Created inNewsletter Library,Healthy Tips Having a pair of healthy hips is a key to healthy aging. But healthy hips are not only important for people in their 60s, 70s, and beyond. Your hips are one of your most important structural components, regardless of how old you are. Whether you’re 20,…

Time’s Arrow Created inNewsletter Library,Healthy Tips As we get older, most of us begin to experience the acceleration of the passage of time. The sensation of time passing gets faster and faster, until for many of us weeks begin to feel like days and months begin to feel like weeks. This is very disconcerting and…

The Truth About Multivitamins Created inNewsletter Library During a graduate nutrition course at the University of Minnesota, a professorposed a challenge to the class: Construct a 2000 calorie-per-day diet thatat least met the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) for vitamins andminerals without the use of supplements. Most of the graduate studentsthought that this was going to…

The Top Shelf Created inNewsletter Library,Injury Rehab & Prevention Many adults begin to develop shoulder pain, even though they may not have sustained a specific injury. It’s important to pay attention to such shoulder issues, as a healthy shoulder joint is the key to full function of the upper extremities. We all know at least…

The Time Machine Created inNewsletter Library,Staying Young The Macintosh operating system contains a subprogram called “Time Machine” that allows you to reset your status to any previously saved state. Provided that you have designated a location for backups, you can literally go back in time and recover documents, directories, and applications you may have overwritten,…

The Three Ps Created inNewsletter Library,Nutrition & Healthy Eating Pasta, pizza, and peanut butter. We’ve all been there. For some of us, these three delicious, yet nutritionally limited, pantry items constituted our three main food groups for months, if not years of our 20s and 30s, possibly even our 40s. But there comes a time…