Now that I’m entering my forties, health is becoming an important issue for me. I want to make sure that I take care of myself so I can be here for my family for decades to come. As a result, I’m doing things that I never did before, including going to my doctor for regular [...]

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A 20 minute workout is basically The minimum you have to do to get the full health effects of exercise. Health scientists have extensively studied how much exercise the human body needs, and most of them now agree that 20 minutes at least three times a week is enough to protect you from heart disease, [...]

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Learning how to reduce stress is downright crucial for today’s modern businessman. Up until recently, it was always assumed that if you were a strong driven man, you could shrug off stress and let it run off your shoulders as if it were nothing. Your drive to succeed would make all the anxiety fade away. [...]

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Now that cold and flu season is upon us, I’m taking extra care to keep germs at bay and prevent these illnesses from striking my family. I’m being more diligent about cleaning frequently touched surfaces such as doorknobs and countertops with anti-bacterial cleanser, and I’m also doing my best to make sure the kids wash [...]

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Getting an exercise routine together can be very difficult if you have not done it before. A lot of people grow up with exercise programs, starting off in school football or track, and learning to exercise on their own after they gave up on intramural sports. For those of us who did not grow up [...]

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Some people search for a lifetime for the key to happiness. They can search and search but never quite find what they think they seek. Often, they are making things harder than they should be, and they are missing the obvious. The key to being happy is not in what we have or where we [...]

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It seems to be pretty common knowledge these days that cholesterol is bad for you. Most people understand that it leads to heart disease and other fatal illnesses, and that cholesterol is something you need to “reduce”. But knowing how to reduce cholesterol? Most people are not so sure. Here are a couple of tips [...]

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For years, as the obseity crisis in America deepend and worsened, we as a society heard about the importants of maintaining a watch on our cholesterol. “Low cholesterol,” the theory held, “would lead to lower chance of heart disease, cardiac arrest, stroke, diabetes and a host of other inflammatory conditions.”
But monitoring your overall cholesterol is [...]

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The scrutiny that is modern society on physical appearance is brutal, not just for women, but increasingly for men too. Celebrities with perfect bodies and shirtless models in every newspaper and catalog means that men have to wage a war of attraction nearly as much as women do. And, like women, this takes a lot [...]

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Sometimes we’re repelled by the hard work and fatigue that comes with exercise to the point where we overlook or forget all the good that it can do us. But the benefits of exercise definitely make up for the gallons of sweat, shortness of breath and painful body aches because exercise isn’t just good for [...]

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