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April 3, 2009
Help for Your Lower Back
Postures from the Alexander Technique may be the key to helping a chronically aching lower back.
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October 8, 2008
Is Your Mind Hurting Your Back?
The way you think and process information may contribute to tenseness in your back muscles and leave your back vulnerable to injury.
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April 24, 2008
Six Ways Help Your Bad Lower Back
by Vic Shayne, PhD Back problems — especially lower back pains — are among the top health complaints in the United States. Nobody is completely sure why this is, but it’s possibly from one or more of the following — overweight conditions, sports injuries, incorrect lifting, poor posture, spinal injury, disc problems, bad sleep, poor [...]
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May 23, 2007
What You Should Know for Your Bad Back
Lift With Your Legs: The Legacy of Back Pain by Vic Shayne, PhD Back pain is right up there with headaches and heart attacks when it comes to the most common types of health complaints. In fact, low back pain is the #2 reason that Americans see their doctor — second only to colds and [...]
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April 4, 2007
Oh, Your Aching Back! Maybe A Lack of Blood Circulation is the Key!
Backaches are at the top of the list of health complaints. Blocked arteries to the lower back contribute to the pain. by Vic Shayne, PhD Back problems are at the top of the health complaints of all Americans. Why is this? What’s going on here? Well, for one thing, studies have recently shown that there [...]
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February 16, 2007
Joint, Bone, Muscle & Tendon Health
Dealing with problems of the joints, tendons, muscles, cartilage and supportive structures has to do with prevention as well as feeding the musculoskeletal system with supportive nutrients.
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January 26, 2007
Pain, Inflammation & Nutrition
By Vic Shayne, PhD Nobody gets through life unscathed and unhurt. From the time we are little children, we come to understand the meaning of bruises, scratches, sores, infections and inflammation. But what is not well known is that inflammation is a process of great importance, and not something to regard as a disease itself. [...]
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January 17, 2007
Glucosamine, Chondroitin & MSM
by Vic Shayne, PhD When it comes to your body’s health and healing, which is preferable — to eat a man-made chemical or nutritious food? ProMin Complex and GreenNutrients provide a number of nutrient-dense foods that are supportive of the body. Nutritious foods provide the building blocks for healing and repair of joints, cartilage, muscle [...]
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January 24, 2006
Low Back Pain Exercises
Editor’s Note: Low back pain is one of the most prevalent of all medical complaints. In the past I’ve written on the benefits of increasing blood supply to the lower back as a means of lessening pain, as well as the benefits of supplying nutrients in the form of VasCor, ProMin and InflaPlex (descriptions of [...]
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December 14, 2005
Diet for Body Builders?
Splendid Specimens: The History of Nutrition in Bodybuilding By Randy Roach Weston A. Price Organization The sport called bodybuilding demands the ex-treme in body presentation. No other athletic endeavor requires such high levels of regimentation for muscle development and body fat reduction. To outsiders, such efforts may appear vain and self-centered, even looming out there [...]
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