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November 2016 Ankle Your Way to Greater Mobility…and Wellness As we age, many systems begin to falter or fail. It is nothing earth-shattering to hear that your heart muscle weakens, especially if diseased; your spinal disks compress; your skin sags; your eyes and ears don’t work as well as when you were younger. And you don’tRead More
A 30-Minute Substitution May Save Years of Life So much has been written lately, in the research journals and here in STEPS newsletters and blogs, on the hazards of sedentary living. It is now considered to be the primary reason for so many of the lifestyle-related diseases that haunt modern society – diabetes, heart disease,Read More
October 2016 Resistance Training and Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema: Treatment or Waste of Time? Breast cancer is the most common cancer for American women and the second leading cause of cancer death. Despite great new techniques and echnologies for treating it, many women incur a side effect known as breast cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL). This is aRead More
September 2016 Injury Prevention Through Proprioception Toss around multi-syllabic words and people think you’re smart. Toss around a small ball while standing on one leg and holding a conversation and people think, well, I’m not sure what they think. But a new study shows it may help your body not think about what each jointRead More
February 2016 As If Getting Older Isn’t Bad Enough… You eat right, you get regular check ups, you even floss…but if you are a runner, even a long-term runner, as you age, you lose speed, have increased risk of injuries, and just don’t seem to have that ooomph in your stride you once had. WhyRead More
April 2016 Can Creatine Supplementation Boost Bone, Too? What if you could get bigger, stronger, more powerful muscles by adding a supplement to your diet that would also increase bone density? Wouldn’t it be worth a few cents a day? A Canadian study tested whether or not, based on the possibility that creatine supplementation, shownRead More
As If Getting Older Isn’t Bad Enough… Part 2 Last month we wrote about a study showing how runners get slower as they age due to weakening calf muscles. This month, as if to remind you you’re getting older and need to start or continue doing regular exercise, we report on a study that measuredRead More
