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10,000 Steps

June 5, 2010 Susanna No Comments

Starting from the first day of June, I took up the 10,000 Steps Challenge. A few quick facts 8,000 deaths per year are attributable to physical inactivity 65% of males and 74% of females are not sufficiently active for health benefits 52% of Australian women and 67% of Australian men are overweight or obese For …

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Any exercise is better than none

September 17, 2009 Susanna 1 Comment

Virtually any exercise is better than no exercise at all. If you don’t exercise, you build dangerous visceral fat — fat that shows up in your abdomen and surrounds your vital organs including your liver, heart and muscles and is linked to heart disease, diabetes and stroke, among many other chronic diseases. So no matter …

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Care for Bones, naturally

February 16, 2009 Susanna 8 Comments

Osteoporosis is normal loss of bone in our menopausal years, it happens to everyone and produces no symptoms or warning signs until a fracture occurs. Most typical are fractures of the wrist, hip, and “crush” fractures of the spine, which produce deformity, loss of height, and severe curvature of the spine. Osteoporosis means “thinning bones” …

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