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Keeping Your Goals

Hello __FIRST__,

We’re now a few weeks into the New Year, but how are your resolutions? Did you miss you workout? Has your cheat day turned into a cheat week?

Resolutions at the start of the year are a great way to get motivated to become a healthier version of you, but we want you to stay committed to fitness for the rest of 2012. Let the Healthfit 4 Life team give your health a jumpstart with customized, effective program specific to your physical and medical needs. Plus, it always helps to have a team of experts holding you accountable to your resolutions and goals.

Through the end of this month, Personalcare Physicians clients will receive three complimentary personal training sessions if you book before Jan. 31. As a new client, if you sign up for the Healthfit 4 Life program before the end of January, Personalcare Physicians will take 10% off your upgrade fee as a thank you.

Give us a call to schedule your next appointment at (949) 706-3300.

Here’s to a healthy 2012!

Dr. Jeffrey Barke
Dr. Kenneth Cheng
Dr. Marcia Whalen
Dr. David Bloom

Keeping Your Goals

by Krista Reader

Making your resolutions is the easy part, it’s keeping them that makes it so difficult.

When making, or modifying, your health and fitness goals for the New Year, there are a few things to keep in mind.

1. Write down your ideas and goals that you’ve thought about achieving.

2. Give yourself a completion date for each goal.
Each of the goals should be definable and achievable. If your goal is to be more healthy, instead of telling yourself that you want to “lose 10 pounds,” consider adding in things like “meditate every morning to get centered, 30 minutes exercise three days each … Read more

PSA Testing May be More than a Pain in the Ass

by Dr. Jeffrey Barke

PSA testing has been the standard testing mechanism for the detection of prostate cancer for many years. It stands for prostate specific antigen and is a simple blood test that has been relied upon by primary care and specialty physicians alike. However, this standard test is under attack and rightfully so.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has recently published a draft recommendation AGAINST prostate specific antigen or PSA screening for prostate cancer in asymptomatic men. The USPSTF gave PSA screening in asymptomatic men a D recommendation, which means there is a moderate or high certainty that the test has no net benefit or that the harms outweigh the benefits. The benefit, of course, would be detecting prostate cancer early. The harm is that the vast majority of those diagnosed with prostate cancer will never … Read more

Athletes: Disordered Eating and Body Image Issues on the Rise

by Dr. Lyndsay Elliott, guest blogger

According to the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, an estimated 13 to 42% of athletes are affected by an eating disorder, depending on the sport and the gender of the participant. These numbers appear to be on the rise due to increased awareness and treatment sought for such an elite group.

Athletes face an even greater physical risk to themselves compared to non-athletes due to the stress that they place on their bodies on a daily basis. Those most vulnerable are involved in appearance sports (i.e. gymnastics, swim, figure skating and dance), but eating disorders are also common in endurance sports (i.e. running or cycling) and sports that have weight classifications (i.e. wrestling). Many cases of eating disorders are not reported or handled in secret, due to the pressures … Read more

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