Article reprinted with permission from Dr. Weil
Aerobic exercise is any activity that increases your heart rate and respiratory rate, the kind that feels like work and makes you huff, puff, and sweat. Aerobic exercise does not just mean aerobics, the classes offered at most health clubs and...
Jan
05
With humor, Roger Doiron encourages people to grow their own “subversive plots,” their own vegetable gardens. He states that “To keep up with population growth, more food will have to be produced worldwide over the next 50 years than has been during the past 10,000 years...
Dec
26
Teacher/physician Dr. Mike Evans extols the many health benefits of walking, and issues a simple challenge: “can you limit your sitting and sleeping to just 23½ hours a day?”
Kind of hard to argue when you put it that way…
Dec
23
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The solo runner or a group can be running through woods, a forest, or along a city street and be reminded of an earlier primitive time and place when running was the quickest way to get somewhere. Obviously, that’s an imagination running wild.
A heightened imagination is...
Oct
20
In my caseload, I often work with my patients on the benefits of real rest. So at the end of a long year of hard work, it was clearly time for me to take my own advice. Which is why I found myself last week in the Big Sky country, on a working horse ranch called the Beartooth River Ranch, Belfry,...
Sep
17
