Options for Back Pain Sufferers

Our bones and joints are designed to give our bodies strength and leverage, but they're not really what holds us up. If you remove the muscle and ligaments, you just have a pile of loose bones with no chance of keeping them stacked properly. It's the marvelously intricate sets of opposing muscles throughout our bodies which keep things in line. This is particularly true of the spine. The long columns of vertebral bones balancing on the pelvic girdle and interlaid with fibrous discs, looks like a recipe for disaster, given the amount of bending, turning and twisting we do each day. Most of the mobility in our spines is in the length from our pelvis to our rib cage and this is where the maximum muscle strength and stabilization need to occur.

4 Ways To Keep Skin From Drying Out In The Winter

By the time winter rolls around, it's often a welcome relief: no more unbearable heat, finding peppermint-flavored things at every retailer and of course, the chance of snow. However, there's one thing we never look forward to, and that is the dry, cracked skin that becomes inevitable from November to February.

This year, make it your resolution to not fall victim to "Elephant Hands" (or feet, or elbows). Here are four ways you can use moisturizers as dry skin remedies for softer skin this winter.

How Do You Handle The Holidays When You're On The Medifast Diet?

I sometimes hear from people who are concerned about sticking to their diet when they have special occasions in their lives. Examples are things like weddings, vacations, and the holidays. The winter holidays (like Thanksgiving, Christmas. Hanukkah, and Kwanza) are particularly challenging because so many of the celebrations revolve around rich and fattening foods. Not participating in these events can make you feel like you are bringing every one else down. But, people who have made some progress on their diet and who are enjoying their results do not want to do anything to put those same results at risk.