It can be a challenge to get employees to exercise nowadays. With so many demands on peoples’ time, exercise sometimes takes a back seat to other needs. Corporate fitness centers need to develop innovative ways to draw employees into their facilities. They also need to encourage them to follow a balanced exercise program that includes cardiovascular conditioning, as well as resistance training. At the PaineWebber Health & Fitness Exchange, staff members have developed a unique way to achieve these goals. By offering employees a chance to get clues to a murder mystery, they have increased participation in their fitness classes and even boosted the number of members who attend their facility on Harbor Boulevard. Continue reading…
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Use fabric as the backing to your bulletin boards. Optimally, you will find a fabric in the same color as your decor. Fabrics of medium weight in cottons, linens and man-made materials are best. They recover from the pin and staple holes the best. Continue reading…
Fake urine, also called synthetic urine, has been around for years. Wo Hler first owned it in 1828. Despite its previous uses, it’s now used primarily to cheat urine drug testing. The internet makes it easy to use cheap, fake stuff to cheat. Continue reading…
It’s February, and as you walk by a bulletin board promoting your “latest” fitness programs (the background colors are red and green), you”re thinking, once again, “I”ve really got to update that bulletin board! That”s been up since Christmas.” Sound familiar? Or perhaps you are the person who finds yourself tearing down flyers from events that have already passed. Perhaps you are struggling to understand why your members say things like “Oh! If I had known about that, I would have signed up!” when you”ve had flyers, posters and brochures around your facility for weeks. Continue reading…
Q.I am a 21-year-old man, and I have a rather embarrassing question. People tell me that a normal individual has a bowel movement once in 24 hours. But I excrete three to four times a day. I have done so for years. Is this normal? If not, I would really like to know what to do about it. Continue reading…
A second problem with this study is that, lacking alternatives, it used data from studies that compared women who chose to take hormones with women who did not. Research suggests that women who choose HRT tend to also follow a healthy lifestyle, making it impossible for us to know how much of the apparent benefit is due to HRT and how much is due to lifestyle factors such as a good diet.
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Women approaching menopause face the difficult decision of whether or not to take hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Estrogen therapy is known to help stave off coronary heart disease and osteoporosis, but it’s also linked to an increased risk of breast cancer and endometrial cancer. Continue reading…
It is important for every mom to feel that she and baby can meet the world together proudly and not hide away at home during the nursing years. Luckily, there are lots of clothing options that allow you to nurse in comfort and with style. Continue reading…
There appears to be no increased risk for cancer among children born to nuclear industry workers, researchers report. The findings are published in the May 29th issue of the British Medical Journal. Continue reading…
There are a number of methods within TCM by which a pattern of illness may be defined. One of the most commonly used is called the Eight Principles or Eight Parameters approach. In this approach, the signs and symptoms of the patient’s illness are defined in terms of 4 pair of criteria. These include hot vs. cold, interior vs. exterior, excess vs. deficiency and yin vs. yang. Continue reading…
