Drivers Education Created inNewsletter Library,Injury Rehab & Prevention We all know someone who has suffered a serious driving-related injury that had nothing to do with being involved in a motor vehicle accident. For example, turning your head suddenly and swiftly for a last minute check of your “blind spot” before changing lanes on the interstate…

Double Indemnity Created inNewsletter Library,Wellness In the classic 1944 film noir, “Double Indemnity”, insurance salesman Walter Neff (played by Fred MacMurray), gets into some pretty hot water involving his client (Barbara Stanwyck) and his co-worker (Edward G. Robinson). Neff tries to misuse the concept of double indemnity and he pays a heavy price. Surprisingly, double…

Don’t Let Housework Be a Pain in Your Back Created inNewsletter Library Householdchores can be a pain in the sacroiliac. Unless you’re careful, routineactivities around the home— washing dishes, vacuuming, even talkingon the phone— can strain your back, including the sacroiliac areanear the tailbone, and result in debilitating discomfort. But youcan protect your back by…

Day of Reckoning Created inNewsletter Library,Healthy Tips The human body is remarkably resilient. Your body can withstand a great deal of abuse. It bounces back to fight off many infections, repair strains and sprains, and heal broken bones. You may drive hundreds of miles in a day, fly across multiple time zones, and travel to…

Dancing in the Streets Created inNewsletter Library,Exercise & Fitness As Martha and the Vandellas sang back in the 1960s, summer’s here! There’s so much to do and we want to make sure we have a great time. Baseball, basketball, volleyball. Swimming and surfing. Walking and running. Hiking and climbing. Rollerblading and skateboarding. Now that summer’s…

Could your lifestyle be making you sick? Created inNewsletter Library,Illness Prevention What is your lifestyle? Not whether you are married or where you live, but rather, how are you choosing to live your life? What choices are you making to keep yourself and your family healthy and well? It is startling to learn that some…

Cosmic Consciousness Created inNewsletter Library,Mind-Body Connection For thousands of years, humanity has struggled to understand the place of men and women in the universe. All sorts of explanations have been brought forward, many proposing that humanity is part of a greater whole and helps contribute to the welfare of all. Equally many theories suggest that…

Conservation of Energy Created inNewsletter Library,Mind-Body Connection Renewability, sustainability, and energy conservation are all over the news. Every newspaper’s front page and every television nightly news program features sustainability daily. These are important issues, not only for the health of our planet, but also for our physical health and well-being. Our physical health depends on…

Coming Up for Air Created inNewsletter Library,Mind-Body Connection Both Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, and Charles Darwin, author of The Origin of Species and creator of the theory of natural selection, were born on February 12, 1809. Modern evolutionary theory, of course, is based on Darwin’s theory of natural selection. The evolutionary…