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The Miraculous Healing Powers of the Ice Bath

June 30, 2008

I ran fourteen miles on Saturday. Our marathon training group met at Portland’s Duniway Park, just below OHSU and the Veteran’s Hospital. We ran up and over the hill, down into Burlingame, across the freeway, and into Tryon Creek State Park. Though we didn’t have any steep climbs, the course was filled with rolling hills. [...]

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One Hundred Push-Ups

June 12, 2008

I’ve always had a strange body. When I was in high school, I could lift tremendous weights with my lower body, but could barely bench press the bar. As I’ve grown older, my lower body strength has declined somewhat, but it’s always remained greater than it ought to be. Meanwhile, I was still barely able [...]

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Which Whole Wheat Bread is Best?

March 3, 2008

I eat too much bread. I like honey toast, PB&J, and the occasional tuna sandwich. But I know most bread is processed crap — it’s not a good addition to my diet. I’m particularly wary of the high-fructose corn syrup most commercial breads contain. Because I’m that kind of guy, I recently decided to find [...]

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Lessons From A Sumo Wrestler: How Not To Lose Weight

February 25, 2008

A friend of mine recently told me about an article she read that illustrates how sumo wrestlers put on as much weight as possible. I went home and found lots of information about how they do it.  Thinking that if I tried to do the opposite, it might help me lose some weight. The most [...]

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