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Most of us are used to lifting dumbbells, barbells, and even a medicine ball once in awhile. What about flipping tires, slosh pipe training, or tossing a sandbag around? Using these types of objects for training is not only fun but it can be very beneficial to the body.
1. One of the big benefits is that lifting odd objects causes us to use muscles we don’t usually use in a regular workout.
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Whether it is new medical devices or cancer treatments, the new approaches seem to cost more than the older ones.
The Fiscal Times: Soaring Health Costs Pinned On Medical Devices The device industry has launched an aggressive campaign to avoid tighter Food and Drug Administration rules that would help generate the information needed to show whether newer devices are actually superior to the ones they replace. The latest devices – from heart valves and defibrillators to artificial knees and hips – are usually significantly more expensive than older devices, and the intense marketing surrounding the introduction of new devices has become a major driver of rising health care costs (Goozner, 6/7).
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News outlets report on a range of state health policy issues.
The Wall Street Journal: Pension Deals Elusive In Both N.J. And N.Y. A sweeping deal to cut pensions and health-care benefits for hundreds of thousands of New Jersey public workers was teetering Wednesday, as rank-and-file Assembly Democrats refused to go along with an agreement struck between top legislative Democrats and Gov. Chris Christie (Fleisher and Gershman, 6/9).
MSNBC/Phillyburbs.com: Coalition Speaks Out Against Medicaid Cuts New Jersey nursing homes stand to lose as much as $140 million in government funding as a result of Medicaid cuts proposed by Republican Gov.
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It is rare that I leave the house without a bottle of water in hand. I have a couple of Nalgene bottles that I take with me when I am traveling around town but the problem with those is that they don’t keep my water cold. I add ice but on a very hot day, the water is warm by the time I’m ready to drink it. When I received my sample Thermos® Under Armour insulated bottle, I was excited to see if it would keep my water cold for a much longer period of time.
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Testicular cancer is the disease condition where malignant cancer cells are noted in the testicles, the male’s gonads or sex glands and are often felt as painless lumps. T