Posts Tagged ‘fitness’

If you’re like most people, you jumped into 2011 resolved to rev up your career, rekindle important relationships, right wrongs … and of course, remake your appearance.

So three weeks into the new year, how are those resolutions working for you?

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Eureka, that’s it! That’s it!

They’ve finally found the cure for the common cold!

Okay, well, not exactly. But researchers have figured out how you can get fewer than the two to four colds the average American adult catches each year, and how you can ensure those colds are less severe: exercise.

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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. A couple of days a week, I do a little weight-lifting … a few chores around the house. So I’m active, right?

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