Archive for June, 2012

Cash and Coaching May Boost Healthy Living

Many people want to live a healthier lifestyle, but they feel like it’s too hard to make the necessary changes.  Bonnie Spring, a professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, says a recent study shows that cash and/or coaching may be just the push people need, at least in the short term. “Researchers recruited 204 [...]

Exercise will change your life, and here’s why

Some people exercise regularly, and some people don’t.  For those of us who don’t, we have lots of reasons why.  Marueen O’Hagan, a writer for The Seattle Times, wants to debunk our excuses. Maureen didn’t always exercise, but over the last few years, she has become quite passionate about it, regularly working out 4-6 days a week. [...]

Dairies pamper cows with chiropractors, waterbeds

According to Dinesh Ramde of the Associated Press, some dairy farmers are turning to unconventional methods of care for their cows.  One of these methods is chiropractic care. Cows can suffer spinal or joint injuries just like people, and when a cow is injured, it has a harder time making its way through the other [...]