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Training staff in these research-based, directed techniques is a rewarding experience. When well-meaning professionals, primarily trained in physiology, are empowered with tools that enhance client success, they are well received. Emphasize the need to help people adapt to routine exercise through a combination of art and science. The science is the use of methods which were painstakenly validated through controlled research. Read more »

Environment
While most industrialized societies have a good understanding of poverty and at least a marginal understanding of ignorance, what constitutes protecting the environment is controversial. In certain countries, environmental protection advocates call themselves ecologists. One environmentalist slogan is “Support your ecology.” Most dictionaries (and the Natural Resources Defense Council) define “ecology” primarily as a branch of science whose focus is the relationship between organisms and their environment. Read more »

Stroke prevention starts with staying away from cigarettes and maintaining normal blood pressure, according to the American Stroke Association (ASA).

In a scientific statement in the combined Jan. 2/9 edition of Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association, a panel of ASA experts published a comprehensive list of risk factors for stroke and made recommendations for stroke prevention.

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Poverty has been a way of life for a huge segment of the human population since antiquity. Ignorance, too — despite considerable efforts by scholars, governments and other groups — is a major, long-standing global problem. In contrast, the need to protect the environment has been recognized only recently. Although these three challenges may appear independent of one another, they have a causal interrelationship. Read more »

We’ve all been riding stationary bikes for a long time while listening to music, watching television and reading a magazine. But, more recently, group exercise cycling classes have emerged as an increasingly popular club activity. Read more »

As if people weren’t concerned enough about Internet privacy, along comes spyware.

That’s the label for software programs that secretly collect information and send it to a company via your Internet connection. And you’re not aware what’s going on.

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