To Your Health Newsletter: How to Give Yourself a Microbreak - March 1, 2016

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March 1, 2016 - Volume 10, Issue 5

You Deserve a (Micro)Break

Microbreaks are short breaks that are taken frequently throughout the workday. Properly used, they can reduce the strain on anatomical structures. They also have been shown to positively affect productivity. Obviously, not all jobs or tasks are amenable to the use of microbreaks, but for those that are, they make a great deal of sense. Here's how to give yourself microbreaks every day.

Back Pain - Steroids for Sciatica Are More Trouble Than They're Worth
Eating on a Budget - Staying Healthy During Tough Economic Times
Making Contact - The Right and Wrong Way to Use Exercise Machines
Should You Get a Flu Shot? - Understand the Potential Risks First

Does a Healthy Body Equal a Bigger Brain?

Sitting on the couch all day or otherwise engaging in sedentary lifestyle behaviors, devoid of physical activity, could do more than increase your chances of being overweight or developing a chronic disease – it could also shrink your brain. Here's what recent research suggests.

Chiropractic Care for Common Sports Injuries

An injury can take time to heal and really frustrate us. After all, we want to be back playing yesterday. That's why chiro-practic care is so important. Let's take a look at some of the most common sports injuries and review what you can do to get better with chiropractic.

It's Time to Get the
Skinny on Ectopic Fat

More than two-third of American adults are overweight or obese. For many years, medicine has focused on the traditional cardio-metabolic risk factors. We're now learning an important focus area should be abdominal obesity or ectopic fat, as its presence can affect all of the other factors.

Fitness Goals: Money Motivates

When it comes to fitness, money motivates – but only when you're threatened with losing some or all of it if you don't participate.

Dying the Right Way

We're living longer and surviving more health scares, even in old age, due to drugs, surgery and other procedures. But here's how doctors want to die.

This issue features a number of articles you will want to share with your family, friends and co-workers. Please feel free to forward this newsletter to them via e-mail.

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