Why is it that so many teen boys worry that lifting weights will stunt their growth, but are less worried about the reality that SMOKING will stunt their growth? Are you a teen boy afraid that [...]
Though laryngeal cancer is strongly linked to several risk factors, a small percentage of patients have no known risk factors. […]
Nonsmokers can get laryngeal cancer, but can it be reassuring to know what percentage of laryngeal cancer patients don’t smoke? […]
Has your dog’s fur been embedded with countless porcupine quills? Here’s a technique that will get out every last porcupine quill from your dog’s coat. […]
Did your dog just swallow a plastic bag? Don't panic yet; here's a simple way to make your dog pass the plastic bag right out of its system. This happened to my sister's dog, a [...]
Why do so few elderly people at the gym bench press? More appalling is that so few personal trainers have their elderly clients bench pressing. The bench press is one of the easiest exercises to [...]
It’s actually true that some women will accept a ride from a stranger because they think it’s the polite thing to do, that it’d be rude to decline. […]
“Never feeling full” is a poor description of the hunger of Prader-Willi syndrome. We’ve all been hungry, but not hungry enough to eat dog food or cardboard. […]
When’s the last time you saw a plus size woman doing deadlifts? I don’t mean baby deadlifts with a 40-pound short barbell, but hammering it out at the “cage”? […]
Why is it that adults, who were abused by their parents, don’t beat up their parents, who may still be relatively young and healthy? […]
Isn’t it amazing so many women love the inner thigh (adductor) machine, yet are still blind to the failure of this machine to trim big thighs? […]
If you feel too fat & clumsy to exercise & have NO idea where to start, there are several kinds of exercise where you won’t have to worry about falling or stumbling. […]
If you’re an elderly woman who’d like to learn to do pull-ups, then go for it! Elderly age, in and of itself, does not make it harmful for a woman to train at pull-ups or [...]
What’s the youngest a child can learn how to deadlift? There is no research on this, so any fitness expert’s take on this is going to be based on anecdotal evidence. […]
Before you have TAVR, you should find out if your surgeon is set on using general anesthesia, because moderate sedation has benefits that general does not have. Many people fear "not waking up" after undergoing [...]
Maybe you should start logging in those running miles to prevent a need in older age for a total knee replacement surgery. The myth is that typical running — and I don’t mean the degree [...]
So if isolation work can’t build muscle and only compound moves can, why do big bodybuilders do a lot of isolation exercises? Isn’t this a contradiction? […]
Being obese in combination with being tall creates a potential fatal medical condition that isn't as likely in a shorter but obese individual. You can’t change your height, but you can change your body fat [...]
Have you drilled your child about the lost puppy ruse that predators often use to lure children into harm’s way? You can easily teach your child not to fall for this ploy. […]
That strange armpit pain you get during or after using the ab wheel is definitely coming from this little tool, and there’s a very logical explanation for it. […]
Do your knees feel fine when you go to bed but then in the middle of the night you awaken in pain? How could sleeping soundly lead to knee pain? Did you overlook a recent [...]
Are you overweight and want to lose body fat? Then lift heavy. Don’t make the mistake of thinking heavy weightlifting will bulk up your body. […]
Have you been walking sideways with a tight elastic band wrapped around your lower legs to trim your thick thighs? Give it up; this won’t shrink your thighs. […]
Okay, so you just sprained your ankle and it’s as big as a pumpkin, turning ugly colors. Can this STILL be only a sprain or might it be broken? Should you sit home and ice [...]
Did you know that being able to stand on the knee or even return to the game doesn’t exclude a serious knee injury? So how can you tell if your knee injury is bad? The [...]
If you suffer elbow pain when carrying things, especially in just one elbow, there is a likely specific cause of this. “Elbow pain from carrying things is often due to lateral epicondylitis, otherwise known as [...]
Do you do the “shoulder bob” while you hold onto the treadmill when walking? Have you noticed a mysterious shoulder pain recently that seems to have no cause? […]
A grade 2 AC joint separation is a kind of injury that some weightlifters think can be caused by the bench press. Do not equate an “injured” AC joint with an actual separation. [...]
Since X-rays look at bones, is it possible that an X-ray can miss a grade 1 AC injury? […]
You won’t believe what cured my golfer’s elbow, and it wasn’t quite the standard “rest, ice and avoid the offending activity” either. […]
Exercise is great for any body, thin or obese. But an obese person is NOT healthy just because she or he exercises. One day on the “Dr. Drew” show, Jeannette DePatie, a NAAFA member who [...]
Wow, could it be true, that something called "pleasure receptors" could be a leading cause of eating too much, of downing a whole box of donuts or quart of ice cream in one sitting? So [...]
Barbells bust bodyfat! But you need to know the best fat-smashing exercises with barbells and know HOW to do them properly for optimal results. Barbell exercises that work more than one muscle group are excellent [...]
Never mind those images of sickly-looking marathon runners; you CAN make jogging burn all the fat you want--by using a particular technique known as HIIT. HIIT stands for high intensity interval training. As a result [...]
There's a real ruthless way to burn fat with the leg press machine: bottom-half incomplete repetitions. Partial reps on the leg press machine when done deeply will burn fat and strengthen the legs when done [...]
It's amazing how much fat a 10 pound dumbbell routine can obliterate. You can base an entire workout on just two 10 pound dumbbells and burn a lot of fat. The following workouts with just [...]
The last thing you want to happen to your cells' telomeres is shortening! If you're under chronic stress and anxiety, your telomeres are probably getting clipped. A study (Effros, 2008) and published in Brain, Behavior and [...]
If the average obese child is sedentary, did the obesity cause the inactivity? Or does being "lazy" cause the excess fat to pile up in a child's body? “This answer depends on the child,” says [...]
Are you morbidly obese and hold onto the treadmill for your walks? Stop doing this. It will sabotage your efforts to lose weight. […]
The eating-disorders police have branded visible ribs above the breasts a sign of an eating disorder, but nowhere in medical literature does it state that this is a tell-tale sign of anorexia nervosa or bulimia [...]
