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JACKPOT REWARDS
2008-02-21 21:09:00 Believe it or not, I have taken on another project working with a new start-up called Jackpot Rewards . I am writing for their health and fitness ?MiniMag? and I am a real supporter of what they are trying to do. They have committed to give away ...
SPYING ON YOUR HEALTH
2008-02-21 00:18:00 You are at work. Your company wants to lower business health care costs. The enterprise is secretly monitoring your blood pressure and heart rate ? your mental and physical condition. Your health wanes or you have marital problems. You are fired because of the potential health increase in premiums because you are a health risk. ... More About: Health , Spying
The Truth about Fat and Fat Solutions
2008-01-21 23:27:00 There is a rush on new pills to solve America?s obesity epidemic. Don?t expect dramatic results from these medications. Three weight loss drugs* were reviewed by Canadian researchers with 20,000 participants in three different trials. The participants weighed an average of 220 pounds. And, the results from those taking the medication were disappointing ? an ... More About: Truth , Solutions , Ruth , The Truth
Guys Getting Faster than the Gals
2007-11-20 02:05:00 There?s a dramatic increase in the number of girls and women participating in sports today. The negative term ?tomboy? for athletic females has almost vanished. For 75-years, females were gaining on male performance records in the short distance swimming, running, skating races. For example, in 1936 sprinter Jessie Owens set the world record of 10.2 ... More About: Guys , The G , Aster
Deer Hunting May Put Hearts At Risk
2007-09-06 22:37:00 Using a Heart Rate Monitor for Deer Hunt ing is Dangerous for Both of You Hunting deer for those at risk for heart attacks might get you before it gets the deer according to a report of 25 middle-aged male deer hunters. Pulling the trigger kills the deer but the activities associated with it might be the ... More About: Risk , Hearts
Matching Tunes to the Beat of Your Heart Rate Monitor
2007-07-20 14:54:00 A new company is matching the beat of your heart monitored by your heart rate device to your digital tunes. The movement started with the MP3 player being used on cardio machines. Then came the Wii to link exercise to digital entertainment. In August, watch for Yamaha to break into the game with their new ... More About: Tunes , Heart , Monitor , Beat , Rate
Your Heart Rate and Your Heart Rate Monitor. Questions to Ask
2007-05-22 16:10:00 A high school physical education class led by one of Canada?s best physical education teachers, Bev Robinson, Calgary, Canada, uses heart rate monitors to assess their health. Bev, a Heart Zones Master Trainer, uses inquiry based learning to engage her students. The student?s then devised workouts and tests to Bev Robinson, High School Physical Education TeacherHeart Zones Level ... More About: Questions , Monitor , Rate
Who Lives the Longest of them All?
2007-02-26 06:08:00 If you had to choose just statistically who is going to die first - someone obese, a cigarette smoker, or a poor person who would you select? The answer is lying dead in the cemetery and can be answered based on the height of the tombstone. In the early 1990s, a Scottish researcher asked the ... More About: Live , Them , Lives , Long , Longest
Do Something To Makes Yourself Feel Good Today
2007-01-28 07:06:00 A very good friend of mine for some 10 years now wanted to do something to support me with the launch a few weeks ago of my new business, The Sally Edwards Company. In that effort, she wrote this to me, “My therapist asked me to do something today that would make me feel good. ... More About: Yourself , Today , Self , Your , Methi
Use Your Heart Rate Monitor a New Way
2007-01-04 17:11:00 Use your heart rate monitor for more than just a training tool. Your heart rate monitor is a motivation monitor. Your heart rate monitor is a weight loss monitor. Your heart rate monitor is an emotional monitor. Your heart rate monitor is a performance monitor. But, your heart rate monitor can do more than that for ... More About: Hear , Heart , Monitor , Rate
Do you have High Cholesterol Just Like Me?
2006-12-11 22:49:00 For the past 30 years, I been tracking my blood chemistry and keeping my records. Ever so slowly, the levels of cholesterol have progressively risen. My blood chemistry records go back to 1973 when cholesterol wasn?t broken into the two parts: happy high (good) and lousy low (bad). At that time, at the age of ... More About: Just , High , Have , Hole , Like
How to Lose 1,000 Pounds Just Like Maggie
2006-11-15 18:35:00 Twenty-five-year-old Maggie needed to lose 1,000 pounds, but the staff members of the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage didn?t know what to do with her robust 9,000-pound body. Maggie had matured into a particularly pudgy pachyderm and was dangerously obese. Following the Heart Zones way, the zoologist devised a new high-fiber, high-fruit diet and then made ... More About: How To , Just , Pound , Like
Who Are Your Biggest Influencers?
2006-11-12 18:10:00 The question that I?d like to pose is this one: Who really excites you in the world of health and fitness? I don?t mean Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt sort of way. I mean who among those who you have learned from, experienced, or admire have influenced your relationship with your body and your health? ... More About: Your , Influence
The Perfect Metabolic Storm Is Hitting
2006-10-30 22:52:00 Take a serious glance at America and her northern neighbors to see what is amassing ? the perfect calamity. Put together this modern scenario: the summation of increased work hours, elimination of physical labor, the popularity of sedentary forms of entertainment, eating nutrient-poor meals outside the home, dangerous environmental conditions, and the ?N? generation (born ... More About: Storm , Stor , Perfect , Meta
Two Clothing Sizes Dropped
2006-10-23 17:29:00 First Lady Laura Bush, according to the Washington Post, has dropped two dress sizes. With the help of a new personal trainer, a new White house chef, and new workout routine of three times a week of stretching, ballet and strength training, the First Lady must now be shopping for a new wardrobe. Two sizes ... More About: Clothing , Size , Thing , Drop , Cloth
It?s Not an Option
2006-09-23 16:57:00 It?s Not an Opti on Exercise is not an option. It is a requirement of daily healthy living. If you choose not to exercise you choose membership into the walking unwell. Exercise is like hygiene, it is a requirement. The word exercise is no longer popular or positive. It is old. It is dated. It is unpleasant. Do ... |
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