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Blog Entries by Qanta Ahmed, MD from 02/2010

Be Your Own Sleep Specialist: Sleep Medicine And The Self-Care Movement

| Posted 02.02.2010 | Healthy Living
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Sleep Machismo is bringing this country to its knees in terms of performance deficits at work and fueling the fire under the obesity pandemic we are now witnessing. We must all become sleep specialists.

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SoulCycle: Breathe, Believe, Let the Journey Begin

| Posted 02.02.2010 | Healthy Living
Read More: Rihanna, Psychotherapy, Ipod, Eminem, Chelsea Clinton, Avatar, Playing Fields, England, Apple Store, Lady GaGa, Guided Imagery, Christine D'Ercole, Haiti Earthquake, Soulcycle, Exercise, Field-Hockey, Spinning, Cambridge University, Bono, Healthy Living News

"SoulCycle?" What a name! I was instantly compelled. Entering the SoulCycle studio reminds me of an Apple Store, the same cool-white lighting, which leaves nothing to the imagination.

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Global Health Diplomacy and the Muslim World: How Haiti Will Heal Us

| Posted 02.15.2010 | Politics
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Collaborative work is emblematic of the increasingly important field of global health diplomacy and the Muslim world has an enormous role to play in this new conversation.

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How Exercise Enables Sleep

| Posted 02.16.2010 | Healthy Living
Read More: Athletes, Over the Counter Drugs, Slow Wave Sleep, Farmville, Self-Medicate, Zeo, Monster Bean, Sleep Debt, Shift Workers, Core Body Temperature, Sleep Disorders, Hypnogram, Sleep Cycle, Mind.Body.Soul, Calories, Alcohol, Asthma, Growth Hormone, Red Bull, Stanford University, Spinning, Sleep Deprivation, Espresso, Volt, Sleep-Architecture, Skiing, Self-Care, Circadian Rhythms, Dreams, Horse Riding, Soulcycle, Running, Exercise, Insomnia, Sleep-Logs, National Sleep Foundation, Sleep, Eeg, Healthy Living News

As Americans, our minds have long been fatigued and our bodies far from movement.

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Movement As Medicine: Spinning And The Self-Care Movement

| Posted 02.22.2010 | Healthy Living
Read More: Selfcare Reform, Winthrop University Hospital, Chelsea Clinton, Selfcare, 9/11, Bariatric Surgery, Health Insurance, Obesity, Guided Imagery, Christine D'Ercole, Soulcycle, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Exercise, Gastric-Bypass, Weight Loss, Healthcare Reform, Spinning, Huffington Post, Medicine, Wellness, Health, Health Tips, Healthy Living News

Agreed, as a nation we most certainly need intelligent HealthCare and Health Insurance reform, but what we are in just as much need of is SelfCare Reform.

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Me and My Rabbi, My Rabbi and Me

| Posted 02.28.2010 | Healthy Living
Read More: Islam, Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, Rabbi, Judaism, Cantorah Melissah Adelman, Talmud, Jerusalem Post, Temple Judea, Rabbi Avner Bergman, Torah, Charleston-South Carolina, Kkbe, Zelophehad, Shabat, Manhassaet, Religion, Religion and Politics, Healthy Living News

This article first appeared in the Jerusalem Post on January 13th 2010 and is reproduced here by permission of the Post - www.jpost.com We wouldn't...

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