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Archive for July, 2008

Healthy and Simple Joke of the Day

A man is given a parking ticket and doesn’t agree with it so he decides to go to court to fight it. He sits in the court all day long waiting for his chance to appeal, but he is never called. As the day is coming to a close the judge looks at him and […]

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Exercise Keeps You Young At Heart - and Other News

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but endurance exercise seems to make it younger”. I hate it when people write stuff that I wish I’d written. It’s a clever line isn’t it. And what’s best of all, is that it seems to be true.
That line is the opening in a news release about a study […]

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Healthy and Simple Joke of the Day

A couple are on vacation by a lake. While the husband is taking a nap the wife decides she’d like to take the boat out on the water and read. While she is floating around reading the local sheriff pulls up in his boat and says “I’m sorry Madam, but it’s not legal to fish […]

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

There’s a Brand With Your Name On It!

“Ninety-four percent of Japanese women in their twenties own a product made by the French luxury brand Louis-Vuitton. Although Louis-Vuitton charges more than 20 percent more for its products in Japan than in France, some 51 million of Japan’s 127 million citizens – 40 percent of the entire nation – own one of its products.”
That’s […]

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Healthy and Simple Joke of the Day

A judge is hearing a case and calls both lawyers into his chambers and says “The reason we are here is that both of you have offered me a bribe”. The two lawyers look at each other, then the judge and are obviously uncomfortable.
“You Joe gave me $20,000, and Dave, you gave me $15,00.” So […]

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

The Last Acceptable Form of Discrimination

You have to admit that when it comes to bigotry and discrimination we, as a society, have come a long way. We’ve still got a long way to go, but clearly we are making progress, at least in some areas. It’s now illegal to discriminate on the basis of race, age, gender, sexual orientation (in […]

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Healthy and Simple Joke of the Day

Here’s an ethical dilemna.
A lawyer works with a client on the case and sends the client a bill for $25,000. The client misreads the bill and sends the lawyer a cheque for $45,000. Here’s the dilemna. Does the lawyer tell his partner?

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Headlines Don’t Lie…Do They?

So I was down in our Research Library going through some old files on all the studies and headlines we have accumulated. You know, processing the data dump. Okay, so I was actually just shuffling through the stack of print outs that are sitting on the dining room chair, okay? But look […]

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Behind the Numbers of the Latest Weight Loss Study - and other stuff

So, you probably saw the headlines in your newspaper or heard about it on TV; hot-off-the-press-breaking-news telling you that low-carb diets were better than low-fat ones for weight loss, and could even help improve your cholesterol level.
It was great for getting your attention, but if you look a little closer at the story, the news […]

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Healthy and Simple Joke of the Day

Two bored male casino workers are standing by the craps table waiting for customers when a beautiful blonde woman walks up and bets $25,000 on one roll of the dice. “I hope you don’t mind” she tells the men “but I feel much more comfortable gambling in the nude!”
So she takes off all her clothes, […]

Friday, July 18th, 2008