Affiliated Community Medical Centers
Can you get in better shape without changing your shape? The answer is “yes”. Most often my patient’s true desire when beginning an exercise program is to change their shape. They want to lose weight, drop a few sizes, look better and feel more confident. Sometimes after working on their exercise program for six months [More]
Dealing with skin care issues in the winter can be no fun. The air is cold and dry and our skin seems to suffer. Does your skin feel dry and rough? Do you have places where it cracks and peels or maybe you have a rash and wonder what you can do? I’ve put together [More]
Most people know that exercise of any kind burns calories. What few know, however, is that we burn more calories each day doing “nothing”. Our basal metabolism is what keeps the machinery of the body running, even at rest, and is responsible for the majority of calories burned in any given day. Inheritance greatly affects [More]
Jeff Kennedy is an exercise physiologist at ACMC. Jeff and two colleagues climbed Mt. Rainier in Seattle, Washington on Memorial Day weekend. Staying motivated to train is always easiest when your program culminates with an event. Having completed countless runs from marathons to 5k’s, in climates from tropical to desert and everything in between, my [More]
