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Most of us are plenty tired of having experts tell us we should do more exercise. Our chiropractors tell us. Our family doctors tell us.

Children and adults are the same but different. Most kids want to play all the time, but they also are required to go to school.

Did you know that your spinal column’s spongy intervertebral discs (IVDs) comprise 25% of this segmented structure’s entire length? Did you know that an adult’s

Most of us like to think of ourselves as young: young in heart at least, if not actually young in years. But is it possible

As with the rest of our physical selves, we don’t think about our bones until something goes wrong. Bones are just there, under the surface

Sandy Smith woke up to the annoying and familiar sound of the alarm clock. It was another day and the beginning of another hectic week.

It seems that at least once a month, some sort of senior fitness competition is featured on the sports page of local and national newspapers.

Let’s say you’ve been taking some time off from the gym. Maybe you reached the end of your 12-week training cycle and you’re taking a

Simon and Garfunkel [and later, The Bangles] had it right. Winter light is hazy – it’s more diffuse. The sun is lower in the sky

Even experienced exercisers sometimes find it difficult to know how much to do. For the beginner this uncertainty represents a significant stumbling block. Fortunately well-established

Everyone knows what he or she "should" do to obtain good health. But the mere knowledge of what we should be doing is never enough.

Driving fast is not necessarily a good thing. We want to get where we’re going as quickly as possible, but we also want to arrive