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Help your feet find happiness: here's how to bag a pair of exercise shoes that won't treat your feet like dirt

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Many people concentrate on extraneous features of athletic shoes, such as brand name, quality, aesthetics, and cushioning, when the most important feature is good fit. Poorly fitting shoes can result in discomfort, blisters, and a variety of more serious problems.

Author: Wickelgren, Ingrid
Publisher: Time Inc., Health
Publication Name: Health (San Francisco, CA)
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 1059-938X
Year: 1996
Purchasing, Product information, Athletic shoes, Athletic shoe industry

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When worry rules your life: can simple anxiety be a mental illness? Seems extreme, but finding help could be the best move you ever made

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A woman prone to worry consulted a doctor as her symptoms became more extreme and a disrupting factor in her life. She was eventually diagnosed as having generalized anxiety disorder, GAD. The symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of anxiety disorders are discussed.

Author: Wickelgren, Ingrid
Publisher: Time Inc., Health
Publication Name: Health (San Francisco, CA)
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 1059-938X
Year: 1997
Care and treatment, Diagnosis, Anxiety, Panic disorders, Panic disorder

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Perfect-or perfectly miserable

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The contemporary epidemic of perfectionism is examined by the perfectionists to strive for success. Setting unrealistic goals only leads to disappointment and more serious problems like eating disorders, clinical depression, anxiety and even suicide.

Author: Wickelgren, Ingrid
Publisher: Time Inc., Health
Publication Name: Health (San Francisco, CA)
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 1059-938X
Year: 2004
United States, Science & research, Research, Physiological aspects, Perfection

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