If you feel that back pain is completely overwhelming your life, you are not alone. So many people live with debilitating, even crippling back pain everyday seemingly with no end in sight.It is a daily ritual for them to reach into the medicine cabinet and pop a pill of their favorite over-the-counter pain reliever or doctor prescribed medication.Despite the publicized health risks for taking these drugs on a continuous basis, back pain sufferers...more
As a personal trainer at Bally's Total Fitness in Philadelphia, I have come across a number of people that claim to either be unable to lose weight or unable to stick to their diets. I personally think there is no one that is unable to lose weight and that most people that can not seem to lose weight often need just a slight adjustment in how they apply their diet.There have been a large number of people that have, with my help, seen excellent...more
If you have ever been through hard times (haven't we all), you were probably given advice by so many different people. For many life situations, there often seems to be as many opinions as people giving advice!We are all products of our experiences. Emotions and judgments are really the result of "where we were when". The values we were taught as kids, the life experiences that we have had as well as current situations all come together to form our perceptions of reality.Fitness and nutrition are no exceptions. Take any cross section of people, say 100, and ask their opinion on a particular fitness idea, and you will probably get 100 different opinions. This is the dilemma I see often with clients. Many, before I see them, have spent a period of time "trying out" this diet or that workout plan because it worked for their friend or their sister gave it to them and so on.My favorite example of this is my last long term partner (spouse) used to be asked for fitness advice because he was fit and married to a fitness instructor! He had some good ideas. He knew what workedÂ…. for HIM.What works for one person may not work for another. Why? Physiologically, the science is pretty much the...more
Osteoarthritis, the commonest form of arthritis affects the knee joint most often in India. Elderly afflicted by this chronic painful disease need joint replacements as a permanent solution to improve their quality of life and put an end to disabling pain. However it is increasingly common to see many young people also suffer from the earlier...more
For years, heart disease has been associated most prominently with middle aged men. However, recent studies have put this myth to rest. Dr. Robert Beaglehole , WHO Director of Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion, states that "the old stereotype of cardiovascular diseases affecting only stressed, overweight, middle-aged men in developed countries...more
Although ionic foot baths have been available for several years, especially in the UK and Europe, it is still relatively unknown in the USA.Our experience with it first originated when my 6 year old granddaughter was diagnosed with lymphoma. To hear the news that a loved one has cancer, especially when it is a child, is devastating to say the least. What were we going to do?Our family has always leaned towards alternative medicine so we decided to research everything we could to see if we could handle this without doing the traditional chemotherapy and radiation. If we couldn't, we would go with the traditional methods.We were very fortunate to have a very dear friend who pointed us in the right direction and hooked us up with a very knowledgeable doctor whose understanding of the human body and the effects of nutrition and environmental pollution, and how it relates to health, was absolute gold for us.The first thing he did for us was change her diet. No sugar, no junk food what so ever, just pure nutrition for her body. She also took 37 different vitamins, minerals, herbs and homeopathies 7 times per day. Half of them were in liquid form that she could mix in with a little juice...more
I am always amused what people are worried about nowadays.How they look in a mirror, their clothes, their "style", what type of car they drive, how they have the right bracelet, to match the right earrings, to go with the stylish ankle bracelet, down...more
It's become a mantra. Fat is bad.At least, that's what almost all the diet gurus say.But did you know that when we cut too much fat from our diets, we may be eliminating the very element we need to absorb the vitamins and nutrients that keep us...more
It's another day at work. Another busy, with your schedules filled with meetings, report deadlines and projects to run. And so plunge yourself to work again, forgetting about time, forgetting about rest. Suddenly, your stomach hurt. Does the pain...more
Many people today suffer from a type of arthritis known as rheumatoid arthritis. Statistics show that as many as 2.1 million Americans (or one percent of the population) suffer from this disease. About three times as many women as men are affected by...more
To go ordering, or let's go out is becoming a primary behavior in today's society, and jeopardizing our healthy eating values. The result is bigger, and bigger waistlines. Many of us are not even aware of why. Listed below I share my 9 healthy eating...more
Recently studies have shown that approximately 45 million people in the United States alone have reported having headaches for which they have to take some type of pain medication. While the majority of the headaches suffered are not serious in...more