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Why is Weightloss a Struggle?

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March 13, 2017

So you’ve heeded the Riddle Wellness weight loss prescription. You’re visiting the gym regularly, you’ve trimmed your diet of fatty foods, maybe you’ve even upped your cardio. But every time you step onto the scale, you don’t see any change. What are you doing wrong?

It can be frustrating to put tremendous effort into a healthy lifestyle and see little results. The answer lies in particular nutritional deficiencies.

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HEALTH & WELLNESS, HEALTHY WOMAN

Massage: What Is It?

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March 13, 2017

Massage.  What is it?  In the United States, most people look at massage as a therapeutic treatment or as a luxury relaxation treatment.    Massage therapy can be dated back to 2330BC at the Tomb of Akmanthor, also known as “The Tomb of the Physician”.  In the tomb, there are pictures of two men having work done on their hands and feet.  Massage is also referred to in 30 different chapters in the Nei Jing, also known as the “The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon”, where it describes the different massage techniques and how they should be applied for different ailments and injuries.  Hippocrates wrote in 460 BC, “The physician must be experienced in many things, but assuredly in rubbing.”

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

Senior Isolation and Loneliness

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March 13, 2017

My life has been filled with loved ones, companionship, social causes and a career that has kept my mind and soul in a state overload (in a good way).  Life has been filled with a hundred reasons to get up in the morning and a hundred new reasons every day.  But some days, I think about what it will be like when I retire and life slows down to the point that I can do all those projects around my house, or I could simply sleep in until the sun is up.  We all hope our retirement will be a time when we can travel, watch our grandkids more often and volunteer a couple of days a week to give back to society.

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

Can Some Cancer Patients Take Hormone Replacement Therapy?

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March 12, 2017

When someone receives the diagnosis of cancer, life changes forever. Just one minute before, that individual and her family led normal lives.  Never more.  They suddenly are flooded with questions. “What does this mean? What can be done? Do I need a second opinion? Do I need surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and/or immunotherapy?  Am I going to die? And again, what did you just say?”

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HEALTH & WELLNESS, IN HER DEFENSE

On Your Side: A Thought Provoking Column About Personal Safety

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February 13, 2017

This recurring column by Dave Jenkins of Rochester Personal Defense, LLC will explore different areas and methods of personal protection and self defense. Topics will range from using specific tools, techniques, or even yourself and your mind as the weapon. The goal is to create a more aware and safer you! Questions or suggestions are welcome!

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

To Be Or Not To Be. That is The Question.

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February 13, 2017

So it’s February and the first month of the New Year is over where most people’s New Year’s Resolutions have dissipated into thin air and we are back to doing what we always do-always done and around and around we go again. Am I right?  We struggle with starting a new lifestyle that is healthier because we have to stop doing the same routine we have had all of our lives.  We are creatures of habit and no matter if it is a good or a bad one—they are not easy to change or adjust-it’s just science. But can we blame that? No. Can we continually excuse our unhealthy ways saying it’s just “human nature” and well, we just can’t help it?  I call BS to that.  So to “be” the same person or “not to be” is the question isn’t it?  Shakespeare isn’t the only one with issues-we all have them.

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

What is Your Motivation?

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January 25, 2017

So the time is here my fabulous friends. We rang in the New Year and it’s time to exclaim “New Year-New Me!!”  YAAAAYYYYYY!  Or in Laments terms, time to go to the gym and throw every naughty food out of the cupboards filling my cup up with a green leafy shake.  Um Yeah-No. Yuck.

Like my mother-in-law would say ‘No Bueno Reina!” or “No Good princess.”  I agree with Mami Soto completely. It is not a good idea. Not ove bit.  It’s a membership you forced yourself to buy along with all these “low fat” “sugar free” items. They were outrageously overpriced. We literally follow through with this charade for, I don’t know…  .5 seconds.   1…2…3…4…5…ok where’s my glass of wine now?  You see where I’m going with this?

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

Menopause Transition

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January 25, 2017

DON’T MISS THIS IMPORTANT PREVENTATIVE HEALTH OPPORTUNITY

Sometime between ages 45 and 55, for many women, gynecologic and related health issues begin to emerge. Menstrual cycles now seem different, mood swings and memory lapses appear, and sleep becomes more chaotic, coupled with warm flushes. And the weight! Why at the mid-section? These irritating acknowledgements belie a more ominous change. During this menopause transition, loosely referred to as “perimenopause,” events are unfolding that have an impact on a woman’s cardiovascular risk.

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HEALTH & WELLNESS, HEALTHY WOMAN

What is Manual Lymph Drainage?

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January 25, 2017

This is a question that many young women in Rochester, NY have been facing more and more, and the question is yes there is treatment after plastic surgery.  That treatment consists of wearing compression garments for 3-6 months, drainage tubes being removed, stitches being removed, multiple creams, pain pills, and manual lymph drainage.  Treatment changes from doctor to doctor, and country to country.

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