Personal trainers can help people of all shapes and sizes rehab from injury or surgery, lose weight, feel younger and improve self-esteem, according to Tony Magden, a personal trainer who owns two Fitness Together studios. “What we do is not rocket science,” he says. “We do direct people to exercise the right way, but I…
Dear Helen: Can you give me some very practical tips to prepare for a phone interview? I know I could do the job if I get it. But there’s a pre-screening interview – 30 minutes with one person – before an interview with the whole team. I need to pass this test to get to…
Seniors, arthritis sufferers, people with chronic conditions and those recovering from orthopedic surgery or injuries often consider water exercise a blessing. With the reduced weight on joints and the reduced risk of falls, virtually everybody can exercise in the water to increase their strength and flexibility, says Holly Howard, who teaches aquarobics and arthritis exercise…
Just as many educators promote educating the whole child, many health care providers now consider patients’ physical, mental and spiritual needs as essential to overall health and fitness. Gov. Kitzhaber’s recent deal with the federal government to provide $1.9 billion to Oregon over the next five years as the state implements an integrated health care…
Dr. Brian Druker graduated medical school determined to find a better way. Despite debilitating chemotherapy and dangerous bone marrow transplants, life expectancy for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia patients remained three to five years. Everything changed when Druker pioneered the first targeted cancer treatment, a medicine called Gleevec. Now, a pill with minimal side effects gives most…
Early on a misty Friday morning, a cacophony of footsteps and the happy chatter of children can be heard as they get closer to Vernon School, a Pre-K to 8 school in Northeast Portland. It’s the sound of a “walking school bus” making its way to school through the neighborhood. The “bus” swells to about…
What is the source of the Jewish obligation to care for our bodies? Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin Temple Beth Israel, Eugene Before you read about the Jewish view of our responsibility to care for our physical health, I ask you to take one minute to sit quietly, perhaps with eyes closed, turning your awareness inward to…
The topic of “Health & Beauty” may seem frivolous. My own medical practice appears to most outsiders to focus only on “outer health.” But, I know the care of my patients is anything but solely cosmetic. When my patients come to me, I view/evaluate/treat their outer health as seriously as I treat their internal health….
Arnold (“Jin”) Zidell has poured his mind, soul and wealth into Blue Planet Network, whose goal is as vast as the ocean: to bring safe drinking water to hundreds of millions of people in developing nations. Now he is dedicating his body to the cause. Never mind that it’s a 73-year-old body. Since August, that…
Developed as a close combat technique by the Israel Defense Forces, Krav Maga was founded by Imi Lichtenfeld, who added street fighting techniques to his formal training in boxing and wrestling when he was faced with ethnic violence on the streets of 1930s’ Prague. After moving to pre-state Israel, he began to synthesize his skills…
