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7 Weird Reasons Your Back Hurts

Low back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, according to research published earlier this year. The position of your pelvis One of the primary causes of low back pain is a pelvis that’s out of alignment, said neurophysiologist and fitness expert Chad Waterbury, author of the HFT2 training system.

In Praise of Spacing Out

On one end lies conscious awareness, or mindfulness. Both mindfuless and zoning out, and all the points in-between, are useful, argue cognitive scientists Todd Kashdan and Robert Biswas-Diener in their new book, The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self—Not Just Your “Good Self”—Drives Success and Fulfillment. “And you can’t.” (“God, and why would you even want to?” Biswas-Diener added. “Oh my God, that sounds horrible.”) “You

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts – Former US Treasury Official, Co-Founder of Reaganomics, Economist & Acclaimed Author – Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is an American economist, a columnist and recent author of “The Failure Of Laissez Faire Capitalism”. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration earning fame as a co-founder of Reaganomics. He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business

Tempted to Web-Search Your Symptoms? Watch This

“I have a deadly disease, and I’m going to die in six weeks.” Thus ominously begins a video ad campaign commissioned by the Flemish government to discourage its citizens from obsessively researching medical symptoms on the Internet. If the leap from common symptom to rare, deadly disease sounds ridiculous to you, then you might be one of the few people who have never searched for health information on the Web.

This Picture Motivated Her to Lose 46 Pounds

Erica, at the event that provoked her lifestyle change (left). After her weightloss (right). (Photos courtesy of Erica Stigliano) We’ve all experienced that moment of realization in life when a powerful emotion spurs you to make a change. Here, we profile Erica Stigliano, 32, on the instant she decided to get serious about losing weight, and what motivated her to do it.  Name: Erica Stigliano Age: 32 Location: Robbinsville, NJ Height:

Infectious Diseases Are On The Rise. Is America Prepared?

In fact, the rate of infectious disease outbreaks is on the rise, according to the researchers’ analysis of 12,102 outbreaks of 215 diseases over 33 years (1980-2013). It’s not just the number of outbreaks that’s growing, either—the diversity of the diseases affecting humans is also increasing. Why, in an age of modern medicine, are infectious diseases able to strengthen their foothold? “We are living in a much more interconnected world,”