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- The Space Between Fitness and Medicine: Where “the Good You Do For Others” Brings the Reward you Deserve | Part 3
  
  Tags: business , Medical Fitness , Personal Trainer
  
  Posted: July 20, 2018
  
  By: Phil Kaplan
  
  If you’ve been following this article/series since Part 1, here’s what you now realize:
  
  There is a massive market of adults in “need” of exercise and nutritional interventions to rediscover the health they’ve moved away from.
  Although the conventions of the medical
  
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- Heart-brain connection: Fitness now protects your brain in your 70s and 80s
  
  Tags: Alzheimers Disease , fitness , Fitness Professionals , Healthy Aging
  
  Posted: July 18, 2018
  
  By: Dr. Joel Fuhrman
  
  Stay fit today; avoid dementia tomorrow
  It’s well-known exercise plays a vital role in your physical health, and now studies propose staying fit in midlife may protect your brain as well, avoiding mental deteriation in later years.
  
  A new study, published in Neurology, that
  
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- Healthy Aging and You: Technology, Consciousness: the Sedentary Society – Part III
  
  Tags: exercise , fitness , Healthy Aging
  
  Posted: July 17, 2018
  
  By: Nicholas Prukop
  
  In examining this subject I have found myself wondering about the challenges that this complex issue of technology and its impact on our lives is having. The reality is that NO ONE really knows what the impact of technology and
  
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- The Biggest Population in US History
  
  Tags: Fitness Professionals , Healthy Aging , Medical Fitness
  
  Posted: July 16, 2018
  
  By: Dan Ritchie
  
  Did you know the Baby Boomers were the biggest population in US history?
  Well, that was until their kids, the millennials, came along. Baby boomers were born from 1946-1964 and were 79 million strong. We are now down to about 76
  
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- Successful Aging with Positive Thinking
  
  Tags: Healthy Aging
  
  Posted: July 12, 2018
  
  By: Dianne McCaughey Ph.D.
  
  This article was written with the intent to inform as well as inspire trainers, coaches and other practitioners who work with the aging population. As a gerontologist who studied the evolution of reflective wisdom, I am intrigued by famous quotes from
  
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- Sports Nutrition Update from the American College of Sports Medicine
  
  Tags: Dietitians , nutrition
  
  Posted: July 10, 2018
  
  By: Nancy Clark, RD
  
  Staying on top of the latest sports nutrition information is a challenge. That's why I attend the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). ACSM is a professional organization for sports medicine doctors and health-care providers, sport
  
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- Alzheimer’s Disease, Fitness and Exercise
  
  Tags: Alzheimers Disease , Fitness Professionals
  
  Posted: July 9, 2018
  
  By: Dr. Irv Rubenstein
  
  Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that strikes fear and terror into those who are getting on in years and family members who are in line to care for them. According to the Alzheimer’s Disease Foundation, in 2015 it
  
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- Taking it Slow. Not Every Fitness Goal Needs to Be Fast and Hard.
  
  Tags: exercise , fitness , Fitness Professionals , Healthy Aging
  
  Posted: July 6, 2018
  
  By: John Platero
  
  Go big or go home? We all want to see fantastic results from our hard work and dedication to any fitness program. If we maintain nutrition, eat well and work as hard as we can, we are going to see
  
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- Running on Empty
  
  Tags: Healthy Aging , nutrition
  
  Posted: July 4, 2018
  
  By: Nicholas A. DiNubile, MD
  
  Planet earth really should be called the water planet. 71% of the earth’s surface is covered with water. Also, when you explore land, air, and sea, it becomes quite obvious that perhaps the most interesting world lies under the water.
  
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- Enough Protein?
  
  Tags: nutrition
  
  Posted: July 3, 2018
  
  By: Tammy Petersen
  
  I am often reminded of when my son shared with me a discussion from his fifth-grade class. His teacher, who up until that point he had thought infallible, taught erroneous information about sources of protein. He knew the information was
  
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