Word: regimen
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...medicine? WellMed www.wellmed.com thinks it has a less painful way to nag you. It's launching a wireless service that can send both routine and condition-specific notices straight to your Web-enabled phone, wireless PDA or alphanumeric pager. The free account can keep track of your daily health regimen and your full medical history, which can be automatically faxed to your hospital in case of an emergency...
...some cases, parents themselves resist. A NASPE survey earlier this year found that parents overwhelmingly support PE. But other studies have found that the parents of overweight kids tend to deny the problem. Chambers recalls her excitement at successfully motivating a young overweight girl to establish an exercise regimen in her home--only to get an angry call from the girl's panicky, obese mother saying, "'Her face is red, and that's not good for her. We're all big, and we're going to stay that...
...more focused than last year," sophomore sprinter Christin McConnell said. "We're training a lot more quality yardage. Training is very individualized and this regimen is going to help the team...
Berlitz schools, they are not. Along Quito's busy Avenida Amazonas, schools operate out of makeshift storefronts and converted homes. "We don't assure fluency, only that you will learn enough to get around," says Francisco Pastor, director of Academia Equinoccial. The regimen of four or five hours of daily classes plus afternoon, Spanish-only outings with instructors brings special meaning to "total immersion," often leaving the student exhausted by dinnertime, just when his host family is eager to engage him in small talk. "Listening was the hardest thing for me," says John Hale, 43, who studied in Quito with...
...Sunday, wait at least an hour after rising before going out into daylight. Later, take in half an hour of late-afternoon light. Dr. Alfred Lewy, vice chairman of psychiatry at Oregon Health Sciences University, who devised the regimen, says that by Tuesday you should be sleeping and waking on time--and feeling fine...