Want More from your Exercise Program? Add Balance Training. Part 2

2011-10-26 / Fitness / Comments OffComments

Balance is also crucial in sports like snowboarding, downhill skiing, surfing, tennis, basketball and baseball

Balance is also crucial in sports like snowboarding, downhill skiing, surfing, tennis, basketball and baseball where maintaining a center of gravity determines how well you can move. “Balance means being able to stop on a dime to hit a shot on the tennis court,” Ellison says. Read the rest of this entry »

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Food Labeling: Fact or Fiction

2011-08-11 / Health / Comments OffComments

The Nutrition and Labeling Act of 1990, created a uniform labeling system that includes many foods. Since May 1994, nutritional information has been required on food labels. The Food and Drug Administration’s labeling standards for “nutrition facts” are definitely an improvement over the past lack of information. Unfortunately, these standards set by and overseen by the FDA, can often be very misleading.

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Diet, Genetics and Cancer. Part 1

2011-07-14 / Detoxification / Comments OffComments

Scientists have been concerned for many years about the relative importance of environmental factors and genetics in determining cancer risk. It is a widely held belief that 80 to 90 percent of human cancer is due to environmental factors.

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