Add These To Your Walk For A Bigger Burn

By David Oliver

Want to get stronger and burn more calories? A half-hour walk each day is a good start, but adding special drills will make you stronger and help you to burn more calories.

The Running Center in New York City suggests these drills be used two days a week. First warm up by walking briskly for 10 minutes. Then stretch your calves and hamstrings. Continue with 30 minutes of brisk walking broken into 10-minute segments. Between each segment try one of the two-minute drills they describe in Prevention, then cool down by walking for five minutes.

Drill 1: March for 30 seconds. Walk lifting your knees high, thighs parallel to the ground. Use a bent-arm swing. Then walk normally for one minute and march again for 30 seconds.

Drill 2: Do butt kicks for 30 seconds: Step forward and kick the opposite foot toward your butt. Use a bent-arm swing. Walk normally for one minute, then butt kick for another 30 seconds.

Drill 3: Skip for 30 seconds. Skip high and let your arms swing. Walk normally for one minute, then skip again for 30 seconds.

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Don't be a Victim of Pharmacy Errors

CNN Medical News published a story about a woman who was pregnant and filled a prescription for prenatal vitamins at her local Walgreens in St. Louis, Missouri.

Unfortunately, this woman miscarried within a few weeks of taking the drug. Later, she learned that instead of being given a prescription for her prenatal vitamins (Materna), she had instead been given Matulane, which is a chemotherapy drug used to treat Hodgkin's disease, according to a lawsuit filed this month in federal court.

According to the lawsuit, the drug (Matulane) is intended to interfere with cell growth and DNA development.

According to the National Patient Safety Foundation, each year in the United States there are 30 million dispensing errors out of 3 billion prescriptions which occur at outpatient pharmacies. Some errors are minor, and some patients catch them easily; however, other errors can be serious.

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