As the old year changes it’s time for another change. It’s time to change the way you think about exercise. Today, we’re going to help you keep your “New Year’s Resolution to exercise. Today is the day that you will be able to not only make a resolution stick, but actually enjoy every step in [...]
It is not very often that you get to thank an international terrorist organization for anything, but al Qaeda may just have given us the tools to create our very own weapon of mass destruction. The mass in question is ourselves, the excess pounds many of us carry around. The weapon, is a high tech [...]
Each year I resolve to find new ways to avoid making New Year’s Resolutions. So far my success rate is 100 percent. I have yet to fail to not keep a resolution I didn’t make. So I can look back over the year almost gone with a sense of achievement and satisfaction, knowing I succeeded [...]
Tags: 2010, Amy Winehouse, Lindsay Lohan, Mount Everest, New Year, New Year's Resolutions, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize for Literature, triathlon, zeitgeistWalking is great exercise. It’s simple to do, you don’t need any instructions or coaching or special equipment, and you can do it anywhere, anytime. But be careful if you do it New Year’s Day, because apparently that is the deadliest time of year for pedestrians!
A 2005 study in the journal Prevention reported that more [...]
Why do male birds have more colorful feathers? I’ve always been a little jealous about the raw deal females get in nature. I remember watching films in elementary school where the announcer’s voice said, “Notice the drab color of the female, whereas the male’s plumes are colorful, and vibrant.” Why is that?
Males seem to get [...]
Hey, there’s a new twist on an old idea – and I mean really, really old – that claims you can be healthier in just 24 hours, and all you have to do is keep your mouth shut. Well, not completely, you do need to drink plenty of water. Anyway the idea has [...]
I don’t usually rely on the Bible for nutrition advice (usually it’s just a list of what you can’t eat – which seems to include most of my favorites) but every once in a while it does come up with something entirely appropriate. And at this time of year the line from Ecclesiastes (8:15) is [...]
Tags: archives of internal medicine, Bible, carrots, coffee, diabetes, fruit, Journal of Food Science, nutrition, tea, vegetables, visionSo, Shirley got back from a quick visit to inject economic stimulus into the New York economy late Tuesday night. She does her bit for the country you know; dinners here, theatre there, a museum or four, pretty soon it all adds up.
Then Wednesday she was up early and running around taking care of business. [...]
We’ve written many times about the simple beauty of a staircase, how it is an amazing way of getting exercise and getting where you need to be, all at the same time. And of course there are stairs all around so you never have to go very far to find one. The sad thing is [...]
