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Healthy and Active: Feed a cold, starve a fever?

This is a doozy of a cold and flu season. Some report that the flu vaccine has only been about 10 percent effective making it even more difficult to avoid an infection. Have you talked with your primary care doctor or visited the Madison Park Pharmica for a strategy to treat a cold or flu?
NW Sports: Pain and Weight Gain

Just a quick check in, how are we doing with our 2018 resolutions to lose weight, get healthy again, and be more active?
Backers of drinks tax make their case

Food access, public health, early learning, and education programs stand to gain from Seattle’s new sweetened beverage tax that went into effect on New Year’s Day.
NW Sports: Move better, feel better this year

It’s a fact that one in two Americans has a musculoskeletal disorder. As a doctor who diagnoses and treats musculoskeletal disorders every day, it’s no surprise to me why we struggle to keep our muscles and joints healthy: we don’t move well, and we don’t move often.
Healthy and Active: SMART fitness goals for 2018

Do you have health and fitness goals for 2018? Are you going to exercise more? Eat more vegetables? Drop a few pounds? If you’ve had difficulty meeting goals in the past you should try SMART goal setting. SMART is an acronym for specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound.
Garden Hotline: Nine steps to put your garden to bed

Many creatures in the garden go to sleep in the winter–but not your soil.
Healthy and Active: Aging with strength and weightlifting

There may not be a fountain of youth feeding Lake Washington, but you can add years to your life with muscles. Resistance training, or weightlifting, has great benefits for us as we age.
Healthy and Active: Exercises for cross country and downhill skiing

Winter is coming! The days are short and snow is packing the slopes. If you’re the kind of snow bird that heads north for winter then this is your season. It’s time to ready your muscles and cardiovascular system for our Cascade winter wonderland.
Garden Hotline: Fauna in your flora

In the City of Seattle, our dog population outnumbers our population of children, a testament to the fact that many of us are living with dogs and undoubtedly other pets in the city.
Aging in Style: Intergenerational models are a win-win
Hearing aids do make a difference

As many of us know well, the chances of developing hearing loss increase significantly as we get older, particularly as we move into our later years.
Healthy and Active: Improve Performance with a dynamic warm-up
Aging in Style: Adapting to aging limitations

As we age, we make adaptations, both consciously and unconsciously, for new and developing limitations.
Healthy and Active: Injury affecting your yoga practice?

Physical therapy can help you resolve your biomechanical problems so that you can return to yoga happier, healthier, and with more body awareness in your practice.
The real story behind heartburn

Acid reflux and its chronic condition, gastroesophageal reflux disease (usually shortened to GERD), are so common it’s estimated that 20 to 30 percent of people experience it weekly and about 7 million people in the United States experience it chronically.
Healthy and Active: So you've been discharged from physical therapy

Sooner or later most of us will find ourselves in physical therapy to address some type of injury or medical condition.
Healthy and Active: Get a leg up on runners' injuries

The weather has shifted, signaling one of our favorite seasons at MoveMend: running season!
Aging With Care: Caring for elderly parents over long distances

Long-distance issues with aging parents are never easy. For most, frequent travel is not an option. For Bill, who is working full time and has two young teens and aging in-laws living with him, it would be difficult.
Healthy and Active: Spring soreness have you down?

Are the longer Spring days getting you back on the Madison Park tennis court or into your garden?
Aging With Care: Traveling tips for seniors

In our younger days, we never thought twice about heading out on an adventure. As we age, we now think twice, or maybe even three times, before committing to trips away from home.

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