Spring is here and renewal is in the air. The American Heart Association is looking for you to renew your commitment to your heart this week. If you can say you meet the following, you will live a long, healthy life. not smoking; moderate exercise at least 5 times a week; untreated blood pressure under 120/80; […]
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Why Can’t I Just Take a Pill?
By Gillian Pieper | Published:Weight loss supplements simply don’t work. That’s why! There’s no escaping it, exercise is the key. A recent analysis of pills promoting weight loss showed all their claims are pretty much bunk. We knew this, right? Intellectually we knew it. Emotionally we still can’t help but want it to be the pill that will save us. Today […]
Read moreSmall Wins Curb Pain
By Gillian Pieper | Published:There is a pervasive prescription drug advertisement on TV that starts by co-opting Newton’s laws by saying: “an object at rest tends to stay at rest. An object in motion tends to stay in motion.” It’s one of those marketing moments of genius as we all nod and affirm with a hearty “I hear that!” […]
Read moreLeap Your Heart into Action!
By Gillian Pieper | Published:We’re in a leap year, leaping out of national heart month and into, well… Where exactly? The question from PATH is where are we leaping? Into Spring, right? The skies are getting brighter morning and night. Why Daylight Savings is only 12 days away (yeah, count ’em) and the official date of spring just a mere seven days further out. […]
Read moreBe a Hearty Healthy Diva!
By Gillian Pieper | Published:“One sees clearly only with the heart.” – Antoine De Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince The celebration of the heart is in the home stretch. With just five days left in February’s heart month we ask you to challenge yourself. Heart disease is the number one killer of women in America today. It beats all forms of cancer […]
Read moreBurn Calories Burn – All Day Long
By Gillian Pieper | Published:“Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.” – Abraham Lincoln Prolific researcher and well known exercise physiologist, David Nieman, DrPh, FACSM, has given us another window into heart healthy weight-loss, assuming we manage our diet properly, and we’re up […]
Read moreStanding Room Only
By Gillian Pieper | Published:“The times, they are a changing.” – Bob Dylan And our hearts are glad! It’s National Heart Month and it turns out, one of the worst things for your heart is “oversitting.” In our effort to be a super-humanly productive techie nation, we’ve taken a hit in our posture, lung capacity and general mood. To […]
Read moreForm Follows Function in the Body
By Gillian Pieper | Published:Nineteenth century Chicago architect Louis Sullivan coined the phrase in this context: “It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, Of all things physical and metaphysical, Of all things human and all things super-human, Of all true manifestations of the head, Of the heart, of the soul, That the life is recognizable […]
Read moreGet XYZ in Just Four Weeks?!
By Gillian Pieper | Published:Whether it six-pack abs or firm thighs you seek, order it up and one of umpteen different health magazines will serve it to you on the printing press any given week. And… You can reach that goal in just four and a half weeks, or 30 days, or one month — wait, isn’t that all the same? Yes, Virginia it […]
Read moreYour History and Common Sense
By Gillian Pieper | Published:Don’t deny good sense! “…we are young, and we have been distressed; but our concord hath withstood our troubles, and fixes a memorable area for posterity to glory in.” On this day in 1776, Thomas Paine published the pamphlet Common Sense that bolstered the American Revolution with rich wisdom. Though he was talking about our […]
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