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Oh, our achin’ backs. It’s no surprise that baby boomers who take care of the yard have plenty to complain about when it comes to aches and pains, including problems with backs, shoulders, arms, legs, hands and feet. And new research confirms what many of us know to be true — that yard care can be tough on the body, particularly for adults in the baby boomer generation.

I love LIFE cereal. To be more precise, I love Cinnamon LIFE cereal. It’s a guilty pleasure. I know I shouldn’t. I know that it’s a horribly processed carbohydrate, with no nutritional value, and will do nothing but mess with my blood sugar levels if eaten by itself, but I love it. I’m the grown-up version of Mikey.

How many times have you proclaimed, “I need to go on a diet”? How many of those diets resulted in long-term success? Not many. Millions of people are looking for the answer to improved health and fitness, and spend billions of dollars every year on diets and weight loss. Diets continually fail to deliver results because no matter how compelling the underlying principles for any diet may seem, no one can stay on a diet forever.

id you make a resolution this year to quit smoking? What motivates you to quit smoking? Nagging by your spouse is rarely a motivation to quit smoking. Trust us, we know. It takes a lot of resolve to kick the smoking habit and it isn’t easy. You not only miss the effects of the nicotine, but the habit is there and if you’ve smoked for a long time, it’s well fixed in both body and mind.

Implementing a low-sodium diet is a challenge because sodium is everywhere. The typical American eats a high number of processed foods such as frozen dinners, boxed noodle and rice dishes, canned soups and canned vegetables, all of which are very high in sodium. So, even if you do not add salt while cooking or use a salt shaker at the table, you are probably eating too much.

When you think of mortal combat, does the word art come to mind? A guess would be, no. Martial arts have a softer side, an internal side that give them deep rooted philosophical stratum often not understood by non-artists.