Archive for the ‘Health & Fitness’ Category
Sleeping men beware!
August 6th, 2010
Men … are you tired? Run down? Listless? Do you poop out at parties?
Well, the answer to your problems is not in Lucy Ricardo’s famous bottle of Vitameatavegamin. Oh noooo. The answer to your chronic fatigue may well be lying in bed next to you … masking her evil with an innocent expression.
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The human obsession
July 23rd, 2010
Bet I know what you’ve been thinking about today.
Mmm hmm. And bet I know what you dreamed about last night.
Decadent fantasies … involving chocolate sauce … and whipped cream …
Huh? Oh, that’s all. Just decadent fantasies of chocolate sauce and whipped cream. People around the world may be talking sex with Sue Johanson
No! Don’t sit down!
July 16th, 2010
Great. After surviving three cancer battles and several other life-and-death dramas, I just discovered I’m likely to succumb to Death by Sitting.
And I’m probably gonna have a lot of company.
Like many people, I’ve bonded with my computer. We spend our days and many evenings working and playing together. So of course, while we’re working, I’m sitting in a desk chair in my office. And if I’m working or playing on the laptop after hours, I’m often sitting in a recliner. Other times, I may be sitting in a car, library, theater, church, restaurant, stadium, waiting room, friend’s home, or on the dock of the bay.
But I make up for all that sitting by spending, oh, 30 minutes a day on the treadmill or hopping around on the Wii Fit
Smashingly simple headache help
July 9th, 2010
Penn Jillette
had a headache. A raging headache. But he couldn’t figure out why.
The magician/comedian, famous for his work with “silent” partner Teller, explained to Rolling Stone magazine that he’d studied the physics before introducing the trick—and was convinced smashing a concrete block on his head with a sledgehammer would have no ill effects. So he kept doing it despite the pain. “I did a lot of shows before I realized I was just hitting myself in the head with a hammer!”
Practicing torture techniques?
June 29th, 2010
In March, when Virgin Atlantic Flight 404 departed Los Angeles for New York at 10:10 a.m. EST, passengers never imagined they were jetting toward a hostage crisis. High winds forced 404 to divert from JFK to Stewart International 90 miles away. The plane landed at 5:15 … and the nightmare began.
Most people don’t realize the Land of the Free ceases to exist at the door of a commercial airliner. The plane may be free to move about the country, but no matter how long it’s been sitting on the tarmac, ain’t nobody free to leave the plane. For about seven hours the flight crew forced passengers to stay on that aircraft. No exercise. Little water. A few rationed potato chips and cookies. Can’t sleep in cramped seats.
Can you imagine letting someone get away with treating you like that?
A life-saving cutback
June 8th, 2010
Did you know every hour you spend driving knocks 20 minutes off your life expectancy
because of the increased risk of being involved in a fatal collision?
Neither did I.
Before the price of gasoline went sky high, I used to drive around just for the heck of it. Stress release. Sometimes I’d drive for a couple of hours. Taken in context with that statistic, now it sounds like I was ingesting slow poison
Yikes.
The challenge of change
March 31st, 2010
When I was little, kids didn’t get the food choices they get now. Parents and schools spooned it onto the plate and that was it—take it or leave it. For the most part, I took it. But my stomach instinctively rebelled at one staple of the school diet: the unidentifiable meat.
Oh, the lunch ladies could tell me it was beef, chicken, or fish. But if it came in a pressed patty that I couldn’t readily identify as beef, chicken, or fish, forget it. My stomach would not accept it no matter how carefully it was disguised by sauces, gravies, cheese, or buns. So I missed a lot of post-lunch recesses while lunchroom aides forced me to sit glumly at the table and keep poking at the blob with my fork before finally letting me go.
Maybe I should have been schooling them.
Going to positive extremes
March 26th, 2010
We’re creatures of excess. As soon as we find out something is good for us, we seem to take it to extremes. Several years ago, researchers decided people were eating too much fat. So manufacturers started to produce a lot of fat-free products. But to make up for the missing fat, they added a lot more sugar. And no one seemed to get thinner.
You wouldn’t think you could get too carried away about something as healthy as positive thinking. But some people do. They get so carried away with the importance of positive thinking that they begin to blame themselves and others anytime something bad happens to them. Obviously, if something bad has happened, it’s because someone had a rogue negative thought.
Well … poppycock!
Potentially lethal combinations
March 19th, 2010
Health issues prove mountainous for many people around the world, and the quality and availability of health care varies from culture to culture. In the United States and some other modern industrialized nations, it’s become common for many patients to combine Western medicine with alternative, herbal, and traditional practices and remedies. The problem: Not all combinations prove to be healthy blends.
Recharge your memory
March 12th, 2010
Are you smarter than a fifth grader? Scratch that. Are you as smart as a preschooler?
What’s the one thing most preschoolers do that may give them an intellectual boost? They take long afternoon naps
