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Tag Archives: exercise
Why I Relish Going to the Gym
For many of us, throwing off the blankets and crawling out of bed on cold winter mornings to go to the gym seems pretty dumb. I felt that way too until my pre-diabetic diagnosis several years ago which meant that … Continue reading
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Tagged diabetes, exercise, fitness, gym, Health, pre-diabetes, workouts
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Looking, Thinking and Feeling Young
In my last post, “We are all Ponce de Leon” (August 13), I noted the robust euphoria increasingly prevalent in medical circles that perhaps in the next 25 years, given science’s increasing sophistication in manipulating the DNA’s genetic formulae, many … Continue reading
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Tagged aerobics, aging, elderly, exercise, gerontology, Ikaria, longevity, processed food, Sardinia, vegan, vegetarian, vegetarian diet
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