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Health

BMI Leads to Unrealistic Goals?

March 7, 2010
Muhammed Lawal

Enough has been written about the shortcomings of using Body Mass Index (BMI) to gauge fitness levels and I'm not going to rehash that here. If you want to learn more about the history of BMI as well as some of the concerns about it, check out the BMI article on Wikipedia.
I do [...]

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How to Keep Yourself Healthy and Your Wallet Happy

February 18, 2010
Healthy Image

Check out this great post by Sean:
It is very important to maintain good health these days, because you don’t want to become ill during such tough economic times. Apart from the burden it will give your body—the pain, discomfort, unsightly appearance, scars, etc.—sickness can very well encumber you financially too. Even just acquiring health insurance [...]

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2009 Blood Test Results

July 21, 2009

I had put off a doctor visit for awhile so the blood work I recently got back is the first I have had for about 20 months. But despite my not doing well on my weight loss plan the results were pretty good. In fact, much better than I expected. Frankly after [...]

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Doctor Visit

June 30, 2009

I had my annual physical yesterday. Well, not quite annual. It's been about 20 months since my last one – I skipped last year. Dumb, dumb, dumb. I just turned 43 and I can't be skipping these things. So the good news is that even though I haven't been feeling [...]

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Looking at my Family History

June 23, 2009

I'm having a physical next Monday and this time I will finally be prepared to include some family history in my file, which they asked for the last time I was there but I neglected to bring in. Because I didn't have it. This year I have it because I thought to remember [...]

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Simple Swollen Calf or Deep Vein Thrombosis?

May 27, 2009

My right calf has been swollen and a little sore for the last few days.
It started last Sunday when I spent the better part of the afternoon trimming the bushes around our pool. I think the landscaping company that put them in assumed we would pay for them to trim the bushes every year [...]

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I Am The World's Worst Weight Loss Blogger

March 29, 2009

I should probably just end this post with that – I Am The World's Worst Weight Loss Blogger. But from the beginning of this blog I have committed to writing about the good and the bad and so here I go – the bad continues. Take a look at my weight loss graph [...]

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Successfully Losing Weight in Your Forties

January 24, 2009

One of the things that concerns me about my weight loss journey is my age and the impact it has on my being successful. When I was young it seemed so easy to lose weight when I needed to. As I have hit my forties it seems to be so much more difficult. [...]

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Creating a Health Decision Scorecard

September 23, 2008

I've written before about how important it is to focus on your decisions and not the results. With good decisions will come good results over time. Results can be fleeting and it is very easy to get frustrated when you don't see the immediate results to what you thought were good decisions.
The primary [...]

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