Why tell this story at all? Because large studies and population-level data must ultimately be translated to an individual patient, and each patient's story uniquely contributes to our understanding of that process.

Dean for Clinical Research Education and Director of the Center for Public Health Sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Back pain, and everything it represents, is nothing more than the body telling the host that he or she cannot load the spine the way the spine was designed to load in the position of the "S" curve.

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The truth is that the practice of yoga is not about changing the brain, body, headstands, or even about gaining greater happiness and joy. If it were, it'd be just like taking a spinning class or doing a set of lunges at the gym. Yoga aims toward transcendence of all those things.

Harvard & Yale-trained psychiatrist, certified yoga teacher, founder of YogaHealthToday.com, therapist, author

I didn't say a word to anyone about it, not even my husband, because I was embarrassed. Because I felt ashamed. In those short few seconds they saw me, they didn't really see me. They chose to see just one thing. My weight. Not me. They only saw my weight.

Mother, Ultra runner, Writer, Seeker of adventure, Lover of all things chocolate

Rather than worrying about acid and alkaline foods as their own "food groups", if you simply eat a decent amount of fruits and vegetables (five a day springs to mind), you have nothing to worry about. Quite frankly, anyone who says you can change the pH of your blood needs to be immediately directed to a high school chemistry classroom.

Foodie, science geek, world traveller, and bookworm

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