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A Personal Empowerment Plan

Have you thought you needed to do something about your health but were afraid to or did not know where to start? I know the feeling. I have felt like I needed to lose another 10 pounds while gaining some muscle and improving my fitness level some.
I would like to offer some free help you [...]

Bruce Bair | May 18th, 2009 | Continued

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What can a Wellness Coach do for You?

Define Wellness. Stumped? I define it as the effect of your habits on your ability to live and enjoy life. If  your habits facilitate lots of energy, resistance to illness, prevention of illness, inner peace, quick healing and rapid recovery from physical stress, and long term high level functioning of your mind then you have [...]

Bruce Bair | April 17th, 2009 | Continued

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Shrink Yourself by stopping Emotional Eating

I have a course to help you improve your wellness habits called Recipe to Look Better Naked.  It is featured article #5, just click on the 5 to see it, but do that later.  Right now I want to talk about something I don’t do well and that I recruited someone to hlep me do.
A [...]

Bruce Bair | April 6th, 2009 | Continued

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How to insure Everyone?

President Obama has perceived correctly that we in America want change. We want things to have a low cost, we want protection from mistakes we make and we want someone to solve our health problems no matter what we have done. If we smoke, over eat, under-exercise, don’t brush our teeth or see the [...]

Bruce Bair | March 30th, 2009 | Continued

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Feature Article #5

Is it the drugs or compliance with therapy that is important?

The drugs may not be as important as a person’s willingness to take them on a regular basis. Compliance may benefit you even when you take a placebo.

Bruce Bair | March 5th, 2009 | Continued

About this Site

Hi, I am Bruce L Bair pac.
What you can expect from my blog.
As a Wellness Coach and Physician Assistant with 30 years combined experience, I will be bringing you information to help you with living healthier longer.
To do this you must constantly adapt and that means change.  There is a process of change and I [...]

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Weight Loss Trap - Making Excuses

I am always amazed at the ability of people to rationalize their behavior and to bargain the price. Please, forgive me, I did not mean for you to think I was talking about you.  I was really talking about the people on your left or right.
Back to the point, there is decent if not perfect [...]

1Jul2009 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Free Health Care IS available for Everyone

We don’t need President Obama, the government or any other organization to give us health care free. I know everyone wants more at less cost. But the debate isn’t about health care, it is about sick care.  Health care is free and is totally in your control.
What about health care is free? Well, if [...]

30Jun2009 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Product Recalls - processed food is dangerous in many ways

Here is something I took right off of the FDA website. It is one reason I do not eat processed foods, (the other is my many allergies to some of the additives in these foods).
“The gap between ignorance and knowledge is much less than the gap between knowledge and action.”
-Anonymous
Nestlé USA’s Baking Division Initiates Voluntary [...]

30Jun2009 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Weight Loss Trap - Diets are solutions to a problem

Let me define the term diet.  Your diet is what you eat.  Nothing more or less. Everything that goes into your mouth is your diet. Today that may be a certain amount of weight watchers points, tomorrow it may be burgers, fries and regular soda. Perhaps it is coffee and something sweet for breakfast every [...]

29Jun2009 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Recommended Reading For Improved Wellness

Wellness is a subject difficult to define by most people. Most think of it as the absence of disease.  I think of it as the sum of your habits.  Changing habits is a process I have discussed many times and will continue to do so for the benefit of my readers..
To change habits you have [...]

25Jun2009 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Weight Loss Trap - You have to cut calories really low

If you have ever tried to lose weight you have probably tried to reduce your calories in some way by going on a diet. The word diet here means a specialized TEMPORARY eating plan that will be abandoned when the weight goal is reached.  Many diets reduce calories far below the levels deemed starvation level [...]

16Jun2009 | Bruce Bair | 2 comments | Continued
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Ask a Podiatrist Anything - about podiatry

Tuesday night, June 16 at 7 PM EST I have a free call for you to listen to - I will be interviewing Dr. Bruce Fawcett, a Podiatrist from Raleigh/Chapel Hill about problems with feet and what can be done about them. Here is the link to the program:
Click here to hear Dr. Fawcett
Even if [...]

15Jun2009 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Weight Loss Trap - I need to exercise more

When I suggest that one of my patients needs to lose weight - they almost always reply that they agree and that they need to begin to exercise again.  There is usually lots of guilt and lots of excuses!  I hear the same list of time, long work hours, family obligations, fatigue and lack of [...]

15Jun2009 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Why is Extra Stored Belly Fat so Bad?

Intra-abdominal fat is stored in response to the effects of cortisol. When we eat too much we get extra high blood sugar that is made into fats and stored within fat cells. These cells are not just storage containers. They are active and produce an array of chemicals all aimed at getting us to stop [...]

12Jun2009 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Totally Tranquil and the Relaxation Response

If stress causes increased belly fat among other detrimental responses, how do you prevent it?
The remedy for the stress response is the opposite called the Relaxation response. This response settles the Amygdala and stops the HPA axis from reacting to stimulation from the Amygdala.
Exercise, done regularly, is a way to keep the Amygdala from creating [...]

10Jun2009 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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