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- Avoiding Burnout: Daily Balance with Bumbles
  
  Tags: Healthy Aging
  
  Posted: June 24, 2019
  
  By: Dr. Heather Clawson
  
  We have all heard that we should strive for balance in our life. Balance requires adequate sleep, food, movement, play, and acts of self-care. Most of us are lucky if we get 3 of those in one day. Lack of
  
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- The Role of Exercise in the Treatment of Diabetes
  
  Tags: Diabetes , exercise , Fitness Professionals
  
  Posted: June 21, 2019
  
  By: Dr. Irv Rubenstein
  
  According to the American College of Sports Medicine’s flagship journal, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise (1), there are more than 21 million Americans with Type 2 Diabetes as of 2010 with an estimated 7 million undiagnosed. If these
  
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- Fibromyalgia and Exercise: How to Get Your Nerve Back
  
  Tags: Fibromyalgia , Fitness Professionals
  
  Posted: June 20, 2019
  
  By: CarolAnn, M.S., CPT, CN
  
  According to the National Institute on Health (NIH), fibromyalgia affects over 5 million U.S. adults and an estimated 3-6% of the world population. While fibromyalgia is most prevalent in women (75-90% of those with fibromyalgia), it also occurs in men
  
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- Healthy Aging & You: The 7 Keys to Fitness Achievement
  
  Tags: fitness , Healthy Aging
  
  Posted: June 19, 2019
  
  By: Nicholas Prukop
  
  What does it mean to be fit or “be in shape”? We set fitness goals for a variety of reasons that are important to us at the time but in the long run is really losing weight a lasting goal?
  
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- Can movement be therapy for emotional stress?
  
  Tags: exercise , Healthy Aging , Mental Health , stress management
  
  Posted: June 18, 2019
  
  By: Vani B. Pahwa
  
  The more rhythmic and intense the movement, the greater this effect, since it elicits focus.
  Emotional stress makes life overwhelming. Sometimes, we experience an extremely stressful or disturbing event, while at other times we accumulate the stress of upsetting interactions over
  
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- What Exactly is Exercise?
  
  Tags: exercise , fitness
  
  Posted: June 17, 2019
  
  By: Charlie Rowe
  
  What is Exercise?
  
  It’s obvious isn’t it?
  
  Seems like a dumb question right?
  
  Professionals such as Personal Trainers, Physical Therapists, and Chiropractors prescribe it to their clients and patients for a wide variety of reasons; to heal from an injury, to increase your
  
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- Tailoring Nutrition to Help Fight Parkinson’s Disease
  
  Tags: nutrition , parkinsons
  
  Posted: June 14, 2019
  
  By: Carisa Campanella
  
  Good nutritional practices are the groundwork for a healthy and productive life. People with Parkinson’s and their Care Partners have extra challenges to face as they navigate life with this progressive disease that causes tremors, slowness of movement, muscle stiffness
  
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- Understanding Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
  
  Tags: Mental Health , wellness coaches
  
  Posted: June 13, 2019
  
  By: Nichole Lowe
  
  Is there really a difference between CBT and DBT? Both Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) come from the same family of psychotherapy. Psychotherapy is one of the best treatment methods available to treat a wide range
  
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- Sports Nutrition Myths: Busted!
  
  Tags: nutrition
  
  Posted: June 12, 2019
  
  By: Nancy Clark, RD
  
  Keeping up with the latest science-based sports nutrition recommendations is a challenge. We are constantly bombarded with media messages touting the next miracle sports food or supplement that will enhance athletic performance, promote fat loss, build muscle, and help you
  
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- The Still Life
  
  Tags: Healthy Aging
  
  Posted: June 11, 2019
  
  By: Adrienne Ione
  
  I am not referring to the still life of the 17th century, a tradition that originated with Dutch painters and spread throughout Europe, where often there was a religious dimension.[1] I am also not referring to still in the sense
  
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