Short people CAN have a relatively long femur, meaning, their thigh bone is longer than their torso -- even if their overall height is way shorter than average. As a former personal trainer, I am fascinated [...]
You know that long femurs are a curse for squatting exercises, but does this problem carry over to day-to-day activities? As a former personal trainer and always-fitness enthusiast, this topic intrigues me. If you clicked [...]
There’s a fool proof way to tell if your femurs are too long for decent parallel back squats. If you can’t parallel squat, does this automatically mean your femurs are too long relative to the [...]
If you’ve given up on the squat due to long femurs, here are the best exercises to build muscle in your legs. Time and time again, the muscle building literature says that people with long [...]
Learn about what increasing low back flexibility can do for your squat if you're stiffed with the curse of long femurs and a short torso! If you’ve been working hard on getting your squat to [...]
Are you in construction and wondering if this will build muscle the way that training at a gym with weights will? The big question for men in construction work who believe that this occupation can [...]
Does doing leg presses make your legs shake? So your legs shake while doing leg presses; what is going on here? I’m a former personal trainer and was not uncommon for my clients’ legs to start [...]
Follow these guidelines to help prevent finger pain related to climbing. Finger pain from climbing can be caused by more than one factor, says Joseph Ciccone, DPT, CSCS, a doctor of physical therapy and certified [...]
You can relieve your low back pain by walking backwards on a treadmill... ...but if you hold on, you'll sabotage this benefit! You need to stand upright and keep your hands off the rails. Walking [...]
One day I noticed that after completing my third or fourth set of deadlifts, my right elbow felt a bit funny. This funny feeling was in the joint; the tendon had somehow been overloaded or [...]
GOMAD means a gallon of milk a day for weight gain, but have you ever considered olive oil? When a man chooses GOMAD for weight gain, it’s usually whole milk, or maybe 2 percent. However, [...]
An expert explains the risks children have in developing anorexia nervosa when their mother struggles with the eating disorder herself. How much can an anorexic environment, created by a mother, raise the risk of her [...]
It’s a fair question: If a woman has anorexia and has not yet had children, should she postpone parenthood until she absolutely feels she has conquered her eating disorder? Anorexia nervosa is a form of [...]
A girl is more likely to develop anorexia nervosa, relative to her baseline inclination, if her mother has this eating disorder. From an intuitive point of view, it seems as though just the sight of [...]
Here are guidelines for kids to help their mother with anorexia nervosa seek treatment. If you’re a teenager or even younger, and your mother has anorexia nervosa, it’s presumable that you’d like to help out, [...]
Some people believe that a woman with anorexia should not have children -- “have” as in raise kids. In other words, that it’s not ethically right for anorexic women to decide to rear kids, as [...]
Though anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder rather than a drug or alcohol addiction, its consequences can have a profoundly negative effect on children of the patient. Don’t assume “It’s just an eating disorder; how [...]
If you’re a teenaged girl who’s struggling because your mother has anorexia nervosa, know that you are absolutely not to blame for your mother’s eating disorder, says Linda Centeno, PhD, clinical psychologist, and assistant director [...]
If you have anorexia nervosa, don't underestimate how damaging the effects of this will be on your children, especially daughters. One woman shares how badly her anorexia nervosa affected her daughter. I interviewed Kari Adams, who [...]
Liam Hoekstra was born in 2005. The World's Strongest Toddler aired in 2014 on TLC about 3-year-old Liam Hoekstra, a pint-size boy from Roosevelt Park who has 40 percent more muscle mass than typical [...]
Have you or someone you know been told they have “inflammatory lung disease”? “Inflammatory lung diseases are clinically and histopathologically [under the microscope] a group of acute and chronic conditions,” begins Sashini Seeni, MD, a [...]
Depression can cause constipation. However, if your depression has caused constipation, you may not even know it. “The range of normal bowel movement frequency is from one BM in three days to three BMs in [...]
Are you an adult who cries too much? Are you an adult who cries excessively? Just how abnormal is it for an adult to be prone to excessive crying episodes? There are different kinds of crying, [...]
If your fasting glucose is about 106, do not panic, as this does not automatically mean you have insulin resistance or prediabetes. A few years ago I visited a general practitioner to find out why [...]
T3 just may work better on depression than antidepressant drugs. A large percentage of people suffering from depression actually have low thyroid, says Dr. Kent Holtorf, MD, thyroidologist and founder of Holtorf Medical Group in [...]
Having diabetes is no excuse to blow your top and be angry at your loved-ones all the time, but this disease indeed could lead to factors that can alter mood and even cause ADHD symptoms. [...]
The ads for Carnivora on the “Coast to Coast” radio show are incessant and strongly hint it can cure cancer. If you're a faithful listener to "Coast to Coast," then you already know that this [...]
A doctor says that after recovering from pneumonia, the cough can persist for a few weeks. “Yes, it is true,” says Susan L. Besser, MD, with Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore; Diplomate, American Board of Obesity [...]
Here's best way to get off zanaflex, says a doctor. Zanaflex withdrawal can be a very troublesome experience, but there's a way to get off Zanaflex smoothly and safely. Zanaflex is a drug for muscle [...]
When do effects of cymbalta, effexor, paxil and zoloft kick in? What's the time it takes for Cymbalta, Effexor, Zoloft and Paxil to start working? Cymbalta, Effexor, Zoloft and Paxil are commonly prescribed antidepressants, and if you're [...]
Getting off Lyrica may cause a number of discontinuation side effects. This drug is prescribed for the pain of fibromyalgia, and the nerve pain associated with diabetes and shingles. Quitting Lyrica suddenly can result in withdrawal [...]
Lessening your usual daily dose of Cymbalta can cause a thick kind of dizziness. Cutting the dose down to wean off Cymbalta (for whatever reason) can leave a side effect of dizziness. I witnessed it when [...]
Learn about these five key ways to help avoid injury from the use of a treadmill workstation. Though a treadmill desk will reverse the adverse effects of sitting all day on the job, the user [...]
Do any inner thigh exercises actually tone the inner thighs? Do you have flabby inner thighs? Loose inner thighs? Can’t anything work to firm the inner thighs? Well, yes, and here it is. A good [...]
Here is a fair comparison of pec deck to cable crossover. Is the cable crossover better than the pec deck for building chest muscles? Though the cable crossover and “pec deck” target the chest muscles, [...]
Is it normal to still suffer knee pain months after a total knee replacement surgery? Immediate post-surgical pain is expected, but we're talking months here. Knee replacement patients are given powerful narcotics to numb the [...]
When two replacements are done at the same time, it's called bilateral knee replacement. For many patients, this is the way to go. But for some patients, it's definitely off-limits. Have you been told that [...]
Here's how to eliminate low back pain when you wake up in the morning. Your low back should not hurt or ache when you get up after a night's sleep. To help solve the problem [...]
Prescription drugs only mask back pain; they do nothing to cure back pain. If you suffer from chronic back pain, here are natural ways for back pain relief. In most cases of chronic low back [...]
An ice bag or very cold pack may numb the pain in your back, but does this also promote healing? Heat won't numb the pain, but won't it increase blood flow to your hurting muscles? [...]
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