By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer As Fall unfolds and winter approaches, it’s time to think about giving your home and your family a boost of fresh air, reduced stress and visual beauty. How can you do that? With indoor potted plants. Some plants are [...]
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Reduce Your Stress and Bring Healthy Air Indoors Simultaneously
Posted in Health and Wellness, Nature and Stress, tagged Houseplant, indoor plants, Nature and Stress, peace lilly, Plant, plants and stress, reducing stress, Stress on September 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What the U.S. Fitness Industry Can Learn From the French
Posted in Fitness, Health and Wellness, tagged Culture of France, Personal trainer, Physical exercise on September 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A Non-French gym. Image via Wikipedia By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer This morning I was reading an article from Reuters about how the French culture is not adopting the “gym culture” as readily as people in the U.S., Spain and the United Kingdom. One [...]
If You Can’t Trust Wikipedia for Health Care Information, Who Can You Trust?
Posted in Health and Wellness, tagged Alternative Medicine, Health care, medical research, PsychINFO, PubMed, Western medicine, Wikipedia on September 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer I was forwarded an article about the lack of credibility in Wikipedia entries, link here. Is it absolutely shocking that an open source, user-edited and maintained site might not reflect all sides of any story? In my book, no. [...]
Kankakee River State Park Puts Great Hiking and Clean, Clear Water on the Map
Posted in Fitness, Health and Wellness, Nature and Stress, tagged Backpacker magazine, Chicago hiking trails, hiking, Kankakee River State Park, kankakeeriver, Rock Creek, Trail on September 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer Recently I was reading Backpacker magazine’s top lists of hikes around the U.S. They listed 3 of the top hiking places in Chicago: The Chicago Lakefront, Starved Rock and Kankakee River State Park. The lakefront is more of an [...]
Traveling Away From Home? Bring Your Emergency Dental Kit!
Posted in Health and Wellness, tagged dental care in the wild, emergency dental care, traveling dental kit on September 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer Last week I posted about the Medical Corp’s Field Medicine class in Ohio. Today I thought I’d give you a bit more info about emergency dental care. Years ago, when I was in Greece, (hardly a Third World country [...]
The Future of Work-Exercising While Generating Energy?
Posted in Health and Wellness, tagged Electricity generation, Human Dynamo, Physical exercise, Walkstation, working out at work, workplace workout on September 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer What if you could work out while you worked? What if by working out you could generate enough electricity to power your own computer and the computer of the coworker next to you. And what if you could do [...]
Learn Basic Medical Care for Survival Situations
Posted in Health and Wellness, tagged disaster preparedness, field medicine, Medical Corps, survivial tips, Third World medicial care, Where There is No Doctor on September 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer So you’ve been reading my blog and you decided to get outdoors AND help others…in a Third World Country. Or you are going to go on a long vacation backpacking through Africa, South America or Asia or even a [...]
10 Top Health Twitter Feeds
Posted in Health and Wellness, tagged Health, Mayo Clinic, Mental health, New York Times, top tweeters, Twitter on September 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer Here is a list of the top 10 Twitter feeds for health news that I follow. I really like Men’s Health and Woman’s Health magazines as a starting point for current trends in fitness and sports medicine. The CDC [...]
Share Your Thoughts: Tell Us What Topics You Want to Read More About at Working Well Resources Blog
Posted in Health and Wellness, tagged Blog, blog poll, Ergonomics, Physical fitness, wellness poll, Wii Fit, WordPress, Writing on September 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer In an effort to be as relevant as possible to my readers, I want to take a short poll to see which topics you’d like me to write more about. I wish I had good news about the Wii [...]
Check Out ACSM’s Sports & Fitness Show Podcasts on Health Radio
Posted in Health and Wellness, tagged American College of Sports Medicine, Health Radio, Melanie Cole, Sports medicine and Fitness Show, Talk Radio on September 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer Want to listen to health and fitness experts talk about a wide range of health issues on your morning commute? Now you can with podcasts you may download from Health Radio. ACSM (the American College of Sports Medicine) sponsors [...]
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