Exercise has become a scary notion for many people, often associated with torturous hours on the treadmill or tripping over one’s own feet in a class where everyone else seems to know the moves. It is no wonder so many people find it difficult to get motivated to exercise.

I was sitting in a banquet room at a downtown Los Angeles hotel in the 1980s, next to my late colleague Dick Bowman. We were both stockbrokers in an L.A. office of a major Wall Street firm.

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If you haven’t heard about the benefits of eating locally grown food, if only from a bumper sticker, then you must be new to Santa Cruz County.

It is estimated that about one-third of adults have difficulty sleeping and are thus sleep deprived.

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