Archive for August, 2009
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Gwen Stefani Workout Program – Staying Fit On Tour
With Gwen back on tour and surviving a busy tour schedule, she needs to have a workout program that trains her full body and also burns more calories in less time. Fortunately, we were able to find out her training secrets by tracking down her personal trainer Gunnar Peterson who is a well kn...
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How Perfect is Perfect Enough?
A few months ago, I was having a conversation with a client I’d been seeing for a while, listening as she described feeling frustrated that she wasn’t following through with her intentions as well as she wanted to. “It sounds like you’re quite a perfectionist in the standards you set for y...
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The Benefits of Digestive Enzymes
Summer in Vancouver is one of the reasons why locals love this city. There is ample opportunity to get outside for some exercise and shed those extra pounds stored during the winter months. In my practice, increased physical activity often comes with it an increased incidence of musculoskele...
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Inflammation: The common factor in chronic degenerative diseases
Numerous articles in print and media this year have identified inflammation as the common denominator in today’s chronic degenerative diseases, ranging from cancer, to osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis. For example, the February 23, 2004 cover of Time magazine was entitled “The Secret...
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Love & Marriage – Are you a Master or Disaster?
Dr. John Gottman, a marriage researcher based in Seattle, WA, has studied what he calls the "masters and disasters" of marriage since 1973. With an ever-growing database of research subjects – now numbering over 2500 couples – Dr. Gottman believes he has decoded the factors that make a marriage ...
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Metabolic Syndrome – Are You at Risk?
Metabolic Syndrome or Syndrome X is a condition that was first reported in 1978 by Dr. Gerald B. Phillips. This syndrome is considered to be a powerful independent risk factor for mortality and morbidity associated with cardiovascular disease. A very frightening statistic puts 1 in every 4 pers...
