Category: Health & Wellness
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Strength Exercises to Everybody
In a Popular Science article, Sara Chodosh suggests the following three strength exercises for everybody which would help with the everyday movements. The article argues that muscles are not just for super humans or some athlete but are essential for lifting groceries bags or a travel suitcase. We might also need to lift ourselves in […]
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How Much Water Should We Drink Everyday?
According to this Whoa: This Is What Happens to Your Body When You Drink Enough Water article on Domino, new general rule of thumb is half your weight in ounces. For example, for a person with a body weight of 120 pounds, then 60 ounces of water is required daily. Quoting Dr. Dana Cohen, an […]
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Daily Walk Steps
A recently published study published in JAMA Neurology concluded “a higher number of steps was associated with lower risk of all-cause dementia. The findings suggest that a dose of just under 10 000 steps per day may be optimally associated with a lower risk of dementia. Steps performed at higher intensity resulted in stronger associations.” According […]
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How Much to Exercise?
According to a newly published study on Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, small daily routine could be more effective in muscle strength exercises than one long weekend each week. People think they have to do a lengthy session of resistance training in the gym, but that’s not the case. Just lowering a […]
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Healthiest US States
According to recent NiceRX report, Washington, Massachusetts, Utah and Vermont are the healthiest states, where as Louisiana, Mississippi, Kentucky and West Virginia are the least healthy states in the nation. Our state state of Minnesota ranked 17 where as our two neighboring states Wisconsin and North Dakota received 32 and 39 healthy states ranking. According […]
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Low Hemoglobin Blood Levels
Recently somebody asked me about “what causes low hemoglobin level in the blood?” which I had no idea about. Therefore I did a brief research, here is what I found. What is hemoglobin? Healthline describes the “hemoglobin” as a protein that is found in our red blood cells which “carries oxygen to the rest of […]
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Our Body is Not Designed to Last 100-Yrs or More
In this very interesting 2015 Scientific American article What a Body Built to Last 100 Years Would Look Like, authors S. Jay OlshanskyBruce A. CarnesRobert N. Butler highlight the fact that how body is not designed for longevity otherwise they argue it would have looked or evolved very differently then they look today. The living […]