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Injury Prevention for Garden Enthusiasts and Weekend Warriors
With the onset of the beautiful spring weather, more people are finding themselves outside for longer hours. Among these groups of nature enthusiasts, gardeners and weekend warriors spend all day in their yards and on local Marin trails, using muscles that are slowly...
The Benefits of Intermittent Fasting
Studies indicate that short-term fasting can increase longevity, help regulate glucose levels, and help treat everything from asthma and autoimmune diseases to cardiac arrhythmia's. These experts argue that constant grazing can actually disrupt metabolic pathways and...
Research Proves Nature is Good for You
Japanese researchers set out to study the changes on the body when spending time in nature. “Forest Bathing” or shinrin-yoku was proved to have beneficial, measurable changes when spending 40 minutes walking in nature. One study at Chiba University in Japan found that...
How Protest Marches Boosts Confidence
In the wake of changes to our political environment (Black Lives Matter, the Storming of the Nation's Capitol, Trump's election, etc.) many people felt hopeless about the future of the US. Fighting positive change is hard,...
How to Excuse-Proof “I Don’t Have Time to Cook”
We all have busy lives, which leave little time for cooking health meals when we get home at the end of the day. First, a little reality check: “The average restaurant meal comes in at 1,500 calories, so it’s hard to lose weight eating out,” says Dawn Jackson...
UC Berkeley Students Treated to Llama Therapy before Finals
Adapted from Steve Rubinstein from the San Francisco Chronicle Six therapeutic llamas came on Friday to bring therapy to UC Berkeley in the fourth llama confab in campus history. A therapeutic llama may look like an ordinary llama. It isn’t. It’s been specially...