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Do you need Antioxidants?

Antioxidants are all the buzz these days.  They help control inflammation (burning) in different tissues of your body.  It seems every day a new paper is published about some new antioxidant that benefits the body.  This all ties in nicely with the free-radical theory of aging, which basically says that it is oxidation that causes aging.  Anti-oxidants […]

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Fruit – Angel or Devil?

 One of my fondest memories of when I was growing up was going wild blackberry picking late in the summer in the big berry patches behind our house.  We would take a long piece of lumber and drop it into the patch and then carefully walk out onto the lumber to reach the really good […]

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Issue 4

My thanks to all of you that expressed concern for my recent low back adventure. I am on the mend and now am ready to begin rehabilitating my back with balance exercises, stretching, and weight training. I am trying to convince our resident therapeutic massage therapist, Susan McDonald, to begin a stretch and balance class […]