Be Well, Do Well and Keep Moving
Gentle Reader Are you like me, suffering from chronic pain? Do you wake up every morning and check to see which joints are hurting? A friend of mine describes sitting on the edge of the bed wondering if she can actually stand and walk to the bathroom. I’m better off than that, but the first …
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Gentle Reader, A good friend is suffering from arthritis in her hand causing discomfort playing tennis and gripping the handles of her hiking pole. Her pain, like the arthritis pain in many aging hands, is the gradual deterioration of the joints because of continued use and abuse over a long, productive life. In 1980 when …
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I keep advising you to eat lots of Swiss chard, collard greens, kale, mustard greens and you say, but I don’t like greens. Greens are one of the best foods for arthritic joints and arthritis in general. They provide minerals and help with inflammation. It is possible to cook them so they are delicious. Dark …
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Eat to Defeat Inflammation Gentle Reader, At a picnic last night there was a lot of talk about pomegranate for lowering pain and inflammation in joints affected by arthritis. I have posted about this before, and wanted to bring this post to you from the health sciences department of Shaklee. The Shaklee corporation scientists and …
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Gentle Reader, If I could tell you why some days I wake up with no pain whatsoever– like today– and catalog the food I ate yesterday, the stretches I made, the delicious sleep, the supplements, the aerobic activity—why surely I would have a recipe for a pain free life. I cannot. I cross country skied …
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