Andrew’s Blog

365 Ways #353–It’s forever Now

#353--I used to have a fear of getting older. I don't really know why. I mean, I had a great role model for aging gracefully in my grandfather. He was...
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365 Ways #352–Take a load off to put the load on.

#352--Though our caloric intake has increased by more than 25% since the 1950s, our activity level has been on a steady decline. We are burning eight hundred fewer calories a...
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365 Ways #351–A Wild Gift Idea

#351--Struggling with what to get your kid who has everything? Maybe you're worried about toy's with lead in the paint or BPA in the plastic. Or perhaps you'd like to...
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365 Ways #350–What’s your stance?

#350--Your body is smart. It will not allow the prime movers involved in a particular movement to work at their full potential if the joint(s) over which those muscles cross...
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365 Ways #349–Grocery stores and hospitals would go out of business

#349--"If Americans could eliminate sugary beverages, potatoes, white bread, pasta, white rice and sugary snacks, we would wipe out almost all the problems we have with weight and diabetes and...
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365 Ways #348–Bad knees are a bad excuse

#348–If squatting makes your knees hurt, I’d say you’re squatting incorrectly. And there’s a rule in rehab: if you can’t, you must. You actually squat everyday in real life. That...
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365 Ways #347–The Appestat

#347--There's a region of the brain inside the hypothalamus which regulates the sense of hunger. It's called the appestat. And while you may have never heard this term before, for...
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365 Ways #346–The brain/body connection

#346--You cannot separate the physical from the mental. Proof of this fact can be found in an article from the the March 2010 issue of Human Brain Mapping (a.k.a. pleasure...
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