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Best Accessories to Make You a Better Runner
Running isn't as complex as other exercising methods, but it's also one of the best ways to work out. Not only are you strengthening your bones, but you're building cartilage, heightening hearing, reducing risks of heart disease, and helping migraines. Running is great for keeping you looking younger and feeling more healthy.
By C.C. Curtis8 years ago in Longevity
Chronic Illness Turned to Education and Empowerment
Barby Ingle had it all. She had just been hired by Washington State University as the head coach of their spirit programs, started her own cheer and dance training company, and was living the post-collegiate life and was well on her way to success.
By Megan Roche8 years ago in Longevity
Making Daily Yoga Practice Less Daunting
We begin with the most lofty aspirations as yogis. "I'm going to do personal practice an hour twice a day", "I'm going to go to group practice four times a week", "I'm going to do a retreat each season..." For some of us, these gigantic goals become stumbling blocks that hinder our practice altogether. For those who aim high only to pull a no show before the game begins, here are a few suggestions as to how to follow through.
By Devi Jiya Nicole Badra8 years ago in Longevity
Watching TV Stresses Me Out
It just takes up so much time. That’s the real problem I have with watching TV. And it never seems to be as easy as just deciding not to. Once you expose yourself to it even for a moment, it seems to have an irresistible draw. I always feel as though I am being compelled to watch, the very act of doing so inducing inertia and draining my resolve. It feels like some kind of sucking leech, distracting me with sound and colour while it feasts upon my time, life, and energy. This description is histrionic beyond belief, of course; it’s just TV. But it is true to say that I am often left with a desolate feeling of loss after I have inadvertently watched one, then two, then three episodes of something.
By Cait Fawkes8 years ago in Longevity
Clean Eating Recipes for Beginners
These recipes are meant for people who are searching for tasty foods without the calories, carbs, and high sugar intake. You will quickly love these clean eating recipes and forget that the food you're eating is actually healthy, can make you happy, and keep you in good shape.
By David McCleary8 years ago in Longevity
10 Ways to Beat Bored Eating
'Tis the season to start snaking on anything and everything in the pantry, and with that snacking comes unnecessary weight gain. It's inevitable: winter snacking is in fact a thing, but there are clever ways to beat bored eating and to keep the number on that scale exactly the same.
By Danielle McDougal8 years ago in Longevity
In What Ways Can Service User Involvement Help to Address Power Imbalance in Health and Social Care
This essay will look at what power is and why it is important in health and social care and how it impacts the relationships of the service user and provider. It will also assess the different forms of power that the service user may go through and how some of those forms may not be so obvious. The essay will look at an article from the British Journal of Learning Disabilities (BJLD), "It’s Only Right That We Get Involved: Service-user Perspectives on Involvement in Learning Disability Services" (Hoole and Morgan, 2010), where service users are involved with their care and compare it to theories such as those of Ivan Illich, Arnsteins Ladder, Kwok-TFu Wong and Henderson and Pochin (reference). It will also address the importance of advocacy and citizenship as part of the framework to a service user’s input to their package of care and care needs good overview of approach to essay
By Samantha Hill8 years ago in Longevity
The Journey to Healthy
My Struggle With My Weight Growing up, I was always an active, healthy child. I would play out around the pond, climb trees, walk to the local shop by myself, and go watch my granddad fish, then run around like the mad head I am. That all changed when I was around 7-years-old.
By Lauren Everall8 years ago in Longevity
The Lupron Chronicles
After almost ten years of painful menstruation, constant UTI symptoms, and no answers, I started on my Endometriosis journey. On Thanksgiving 2016, I started experiencing new sharp and twisting pain. I went back to the surgeon I had chosen for exploratory surgery a few years before and told him now is the time. I have Stage 4 Endometriosis with Chocolate Cysts (Stage Three) causing Deep Infiltrating Endometriosis lesions. Along with these DIE lesions, I have spots of endometriosis all over my pelvic cavity ranging from Stage 1 severity to Stage 4 severity. These multitudes of lesions and stages had started to severely impact my mobility and daily life. The FDA approved drug Depo-Lupron or "Lupron," is my last choice and I am starting it soon.
By Katie Moore8 years ago in Longevity
