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So what makes a pharmacist qualified to talk about diet?  Nothing really.  But I’m not your typical pharmacist. Growing up, I was always a very skinny kid.  Starting around twelve years old, I began lifting weights.  I saw the movie Pumping Iron with Arnold Schwarzenegger and wanted to look like those guys in the movie.  So I began to follow the workout routines of these advanced bodybuilders.  These routines in the bodybuilding magazines and books […]

Until just about a hundred years ago, physical exercise was part of our daily lives.  We chopped wood, hunted for food, worked in the fields, built structures, etc.  Now, in our modern society, our activity is pretty much limited to walking to and from the car. Approximately 50 million adults in the United States are considered sedentary.  This inactivity increases the risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and many other lifestyle related illnesses.  Scientists are […]

Yes, you read that right. Twins, with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, is one of my all-time favorite movies.  Yes, you read that right too.  I love it, I can recite just about every line, and still laugh every time I watch it.  I’m laughing right now just thinking about it. So how in the world does watching this movie inspire me to work out harder?  This is a picture from the scene of my […]