Bicycle Safety (Adults)
You never forget how to ride a bike. But if you’re like many adults, you might need a refresher course in bike safety. Perhaps you’re pulling that ten-speed out of storage for the first time in years. Perhaps a recent wreck or close call has made you …
Learn MorePreventing Overuse Injuries
How can I protect myself from sports injuries?You faithfully wear your goggles on the racquetball court, you never go in-line skating without your pads and helmet, and you stretch like a fanatic, yet you still get sidelined by injuries. What’s going o…
Learn MoreStress Test
What is a stress test? There’s nothing like a good workout to find out how fit you really are. You may feel like a champion in your armchair fantasies, but playing a set of tennis can tell a different story. Likewise, you don’t know how well your hear…
Learn MoreAthletic Heart Syndrome
What is athletic heart syndrome? Athletic heart syndrome is a heart condition that may occur in people who exercise or train for more than an hour a day, most days of the week. Athletic heart syndrome isn’t necessarily bad for you — if you’re an at…
Learn MorePassive “Exercisers”
Health experts keep droning on about diet and exercise, but are they overlooking an easier, simpler way to lose weight? What if you could burn calories and slim down without breaking a sweat? That’s the promise of many “passive exercise” devices such …
Learn MoreDiabetes: The Exercise Prescription
Every time Natalie Wayne climbs a mountain or goes speed skating, sugar pills are part of her equipment. Wright, who lives in Wakefield, Rhode Island, is a certified diabetes educator, an exercise physiologist, and a self-proclaimed “exercise nut” who…
Learn MoreBrushing 2
You know you need to brush your teeth and floss every day. But do you know how to get the most out of it? Even if you think you mastered brushing and flossing in grade school, you may still have a few things to learn.What kind of toothbrush should I b…
Learn MoreBreast Cancer Myths
What’s the disease that women fear the most? The answer is most likely to be breast cancer. And if you ask them the disease they’re most likely to get, their answer would be breast cancer as well.But they would be wrong.Among the most lethal diseases …
Learn MoreMale Breast Cancer
Anne Hofstadler is a breast cancer survivor. Her sister and mother have also had breast cancer. So Anne worries that her daughter may eventually be diagnosed with the disease — especially since her daughter’s paternal grandmother also suffered from i…
Learn MoreSurgical Procedures Used in Treating Breast Cancer
It used to be thought that the more the surgeon cut from a woman’s breast, the more likely she was to survive breast cancer. By the time surgery was over, a woman with a small tumor in one breast would have lost her breast, the chest muscles underneat…
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