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Articles

Sick Buildings
PHO #14

While scientists search for diagnostic criteria, increasing numbers of people suffer from sick building syndrome.

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Overworked, Sick, and Injured
PHO #14

When and how much you work increases your risk of ill health, injury, and decreases your capacity to recover.

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Life, Death, and Vegetables
PHO #14

Despite its flaws, a study shows why health starts with doing the simplest things first.

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Reverse the Aging Process
PHO #13

Human beings are built to move. So it makes sense that exercise turns back the clock on skeletal muscle.

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Young Bones and Milk
PHO #7

Young Bones and Milk: Conventional wisdom says that milk builds bones, but available research suggests it's exercise that does the trick.

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Walking
PHO #5

Walking: Think You Know How? Considerations for doing the easiest form of exercise

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Motivated to Exercise
PHO #5

Moved to Move: Strategies for getting the right amount of exercise

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Healthy Bones
PHO #4

Healthy Bones: The Surgeon General's report ignored some important safeguards

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Shows

Living Like an Immortal

Health educator Layna Berman contests the major myth of aging: that degeneration is inevitable. And she offers suggestions for healthy longevity from the inside out. Resources: Resources on aging, resources on food, diet, and nutrition, resources on exercise and musculoskeletal health, resources on environmental health, resources on hormones, women’s health, and men’s health, and resources on mind, mood, and stress.

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Exercise and Disease Prevention

Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett PhD discuss the role of exercise in preventing disease including specific recommendations on forms of exercise and training regimes. Resources: Resources on exercise and musculoskeletal health; also resources on aging, cancer, heart health, insulin resistance, hormones, and stress

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Weight

Health educator Layna Berman examines weight loss including when it's healthy and when it's not, food addiction, allergies, carbohydrate sensitivity, hormones, and exercise. Resources: Resources on food and diet, hormones, exercise, and diabetes, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and obesity.

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Bone Health

Health educator Layna Berman discusses non-pharmaceutical solutions to preserving and building bone mass for both genders including vitamins D and K. Resources: Healthy Bones from Progressive Health Observer #4 and Young Bones and Milk from Progressive Health Observer #7

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Self-Healing for Your Eyes

Meir Schneider, PhD, LMT explains his unique approach to healing and vision restoration. Resources: The School for Self-Healing www.self-healing.org; Movement for Self-Healing and The Natural Vision Improvement Kit by Meir Schneider

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Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment Part 2

Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss how to avoid common diagnoses and the medical interventions that are typically prescribed Resources: Resources on diabetes, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and obesity; Resources on cardiovascular and heart health; Resources on digestion and gut health; Resources on exercise and musculoskeletal health; Resources on aging;

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Back and Joint Therapy: Supporting the Whole Person

Thomas Dorman, MD discusses Prolotherapy and its place in supporting the whole person in treating back and joint conditions. Resources: Thomas Dorman, MD, Fact, Fiction, and Fraud in Modern Medicine www.dormanpub.com

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Recovering from Injury

Health educator Layna Berman discusses what to do after a physical injury to support healing. Resources: Resources on exercise and musculoskeletal health

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Exercise How-To

Health educator Layna Berman offers easy exercise guidelines. Resources: Resources on exercise

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The Science of Weight Training

Health educator Layna Berman discusses the science behind weight resistance training

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Exercise: an Integrative Perspective

Health Educator Layna Berman reviews disease protection and nutrient requirements

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Exercise: How it Works

Health Integrationist Layna Berman discusses exercise and health

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Exercising Beyond Constraints

Layna Berman, Health Educator discusses resolving the impediments to regular exercise

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Health Support While Healing Trauma

Layna Berman, Health Integrationist

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Exercise Prescriptions

Health Integrationist Layna Berman

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Weight Resistance Training As Bodywork

Layna Berman, Health Integrationist

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Reviewing Health Literature

Layna Berman, Health Integrationist

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Weight Training as Body Work

Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

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The Dangers of Under-resting and Overtraining: Exercise Prudence

Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

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Weight Resistance Training Programs

Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

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Chiropractic and Soft Tissue Management

Dr. Mark Thompson DC, CSCS Certified Active Release Technique

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Exercise as Medicine

Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

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Exercise: How Much?

Layna Berman Health Integration Specialist

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Becoming One With Nature

Tai Chi and Quigong Martin Lee PhD

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Training From the Inside Out: Securing the Trunk

Layna Berman Health Integration Specialist

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The Repetitive Strain Injury Recovery Book

Deborah Quilter Resources: The Repetitive Strain Injury Recovery Book by Deborah Quilter

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Overcoming Obstacles to Getting and Staying Lean

Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

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Dispelling Myths about Weight Resistance Training

Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

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Eating and Exercise Strategies for the Holidays

Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

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Exercise: Getting Started, Starting Over

Health Educator Layna Berman, with an editorial by research biochemist Dr. David Zava Resources: Resources on exercise; What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer by John Lee and David Zava and ZRT Laboratory www.zrtlab.com

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Health Integration

Health Educator Layna Berman

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Exposing Myths About Weight Resistance Training

Health Educator Layna Berman

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Exercise and Transformation

Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

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Protecting Joints During Exercise

Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

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The Art of Self-Care

Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

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Restorative Yoga

Judith Lasater PT Resources: Relax and Renew by Judith Lasater

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The Psychology of Exercise

Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

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Self Protection/Self Defense

Johnnie Burrell, The Self Protection Initiative

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The Dangers of Under-resting Over-training

Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

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The Art of Weight Training

Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

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Exercise Options: Keeping it Simple

Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

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Exercise and Every Day Life

Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

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Exercises I'd Never Do!

Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

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