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Think Muscle Newsletter #3August 7, 2000 Exercise for Mental Health by Kelly O'BrienThe effects of exercise on physical wellbeing, in particular coronary heart disease, are well understood by health practitioners and the general public alike. Although studied since the early 80s’, the positive effects that exercise has on mental wellbeing, such as anxiety and depression, is only now coming to the attention of mental health practitioners. "Natural Bodybuilding": A Modern Oxymoron? Part II by Rick Collins and Krista Scott-DixonThe word natural is derived from the Latin word "naturalis," meaning "by birth." In other words, it connotes the state or condition that nature originally intended, as when one was born. (Interestingly, today we refer to delivering a baby without technological/pharmaceutical assistance by the linguistic redundancy of "natural child birth.") In this sense, none of us can ever be in a natural state. From the moment that we are fed, clothed and taught to use language, we become implicated in "culture." |
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