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Common Rowing Injuries and How to Prevent Them

For many, going out and rowing is more than just a labor of fitness, it’s a hobby and a passion. Rowing provides you with the opportunity to escape and relax in the calm waters. It is something almost anyone can do. As long as you have access to the right boat, a life jacket, and some oars, you’re set.

While rowing can help you exercise numerous parts of your body from your legs right up to your back and arms, it can result in some injuries due to the unique way you use your muscles when rowing. Your legs flex and fully extend one by one while your arms move.

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Household Healthy This Season

Keeping Your Household Healthy This Season

With winter fast approaching, it’s time to up your health game and stop those pesky germs in their tracks. While everybody gets sick from time to time, certain illnesses can wreak havoc on your life, causing you to have to take time out of work and cancel important plans. Getting sick can also impact your medical insurance, and prescription costs will add to your household expenses. In other words, many common ailments are harmless in the long-term, but it’s best to avoid them if you can. Staying well during flu season is not so difficult if you follow the basic recommendations.

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3 Keys to Maintaining Weight Loss

Losing weight is a difficult task, but maintaining that weight loss can be even more difficult. The idea of keeping the weight off once you've lost it is often overlooked until it becomes a problem. Planning, determination, motivation, dieting, and exercising all play into how successful your weight-loss plan will be, but these extra tips can prevent a relapse and keep you right where you want to be.

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Changing the Landscape of Medicine

The Times They are A-Changing – How Tech Leaps are Changing the Landscape of Modern Medicine

For a medical practitioner, these are as exciting times to live as any. The advancements and discoveries happen on a weekly or monthly basis, and there's no time to make a “fuss” about each of them like we did, say, back in the day of polio vaccine discovery.

This is a double-edged sword. The fact that the field is moving so fast is, without a doubt, a good thing. The flipside of the medal is that it's not getting any easier to keep up with it all and, just as important, it's easier to fall prey to inaccurate news.

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Medical Treatment for Obesity

Are There Medical Treatments Available for Obesity?

Many people struggling with obesity understand the importance of losing the excess weight on their overall health. The majority of them try different approaches, but with little success. The major reason for the failure is that most of them look for a quick method of losing weight. The reality is that successful weight loss is a journey that requires a combination of different strategies.

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Help Yourself Relax and Unwind

Effective Ways to Help Yourself Relax and Unwind

In today’s busy world, there are a great many demands on your time. Not only do you have work, but there are also social media, friends and perhaps even children all asking for your time and energy. That is why it is so important to try and find ways to relax and unwind when you need it. Here are some effective ways that can help you to relax your body and mind.

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Helping You Cut Calories

Ideas For Helping You Cut Calories

Losing weight is never easy, but that doesn’t mean you should give up all hope and not try. Living a healthy lifestyle has a lot to do with what you eat and the number of calories you consume on any given day; it’s also about consuming the right nutrients and reaching your weekly exercise quota. To lose weight, you need to be honest and understand what’s right and wrong with your current diet.

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