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Well Being: A key to unlocking happiness

My morning run in Maine follows a three-mile loop. It begins with a climb through the woods, levels off, and ends with a gradual descent along the shore. Here, the trees part to reveal a sloping meadow...

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Well Being: An astronomer's constellation of activity: Biking, running, lifting

As a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, Mark Devlin has his head in the stars and his feet planted firmly on Earth - when he isn't running or mountain-biking.

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Well Being: Weil: Strive for contentment, not happiness

Over the years, I have read the books and listened to the pronouncements of Andrew Weil, the natural-remedy guru and champion of integrative medicine with the broad grin, bushy beard, and bald pate....

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Well Being: He surprised himself by learning to like exercise

Peter Hopkins, the music director at St. Peter's Church, is an erudite, energetic man who plays the piano and organ, sings with a fine tenor voice, and can blend the disparate voices in the choir so...

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Well Being: A push-up enthusiast is warned to lay off

My approach to exercise is strictly Thoreauvian - simplify, simplify! That's why I'm a big fan of body-weight exercise - push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups, etc. Because resistance is supplied by your body...

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Well Being: Marathon mates all year

Dan Schultz and Craig Davidson were hanging out at McGillicuddy's Pub in Havertown in early fall last year, enjoying a couple of beers, when Davidson floated a wild idea: Why not run several marathons...

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Well Being: Pushing back on push-up warning

My recent column on push-ups, in which orthopedic surgeon John Fenlin of the Rothman Institute tossed a hand grenade by recommending that people over 40 stop doing body-weight exercises such as...

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Well Being: One doc's prescription for heart health

One of the enduring tragedies of fair Ireland, beset by recurring economic woes, is that it loses many of its best and brightest, who, in search of opportunity, emigrate, most often to the United States.

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Well Being: Reaching higher, in mind and body

When Debra Williams was growing up in West Philadelphia and later Wynnefield, her parents made it clear that going to college was mandatory. She did that and then some, proving along the way that a...

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Well Being: Leading uphill climb to ease the suffering from cystic fibrosis

Jim Wilson describes himself as "an adrenaline junkie." It began with motocross racing when he was a teenager. Later in life, he became a mountain and ice climber, scaling peaks all over the world.

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