Why use sports drinks? These nifty inventions, besides making their inventors and distributors a handsome profit, do actually help athletes of all levels perform well in their chosen event. So how do they work? Sports drinks, as their marketers trumpet in their advertising, provide replacement fluids and nutrients that are depleted in endurance events. What…
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Good Skin That Comes From Within
Bewildered by the competing claims on skincare products? Each promising miraculous results but not really delivering when you lay down the bucks? There is an easy and affordable solution: Work from the inside out. Here’s how.
Creative Workouts: Cross-Training in Your Own Yard
Life is busy. Since we haven’t found the way to make more time, we make the things we do count for more. When it comes to our workouts, we create ways to train smarter. Part of everyone’s exercise strategy these days likely includes some form of cross training. Whether hitting the weights for some strength…
Advocating For Yourself: Being an Educated Consumer
Have you ever stood in the store aisle trying to decipher the ingredient label on a product? Did you put the item in your cart with a whispered hope that the ingredients would not significantly harm you or your family? Don’t you hate feeling that way? Product companies are not likely to help us make…
Atrial Fibrillation and the Endurance Athlete
As a 58 year old competitive cyclist, Dr. Alan Bragman was out for a training ride when he didn’t feel well, so decided to call it a day and pedal easy on home. Then came the shortness of breath and chest pains that got him off of the bike and eventually into the hospital. The…
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