Most exercise machines are designed to accommodate a variety of body types and provide a wide range of resistance or weight settings. Unfortunately, most people never return the machines to their “neutral” setting when they finish with the machine. Unless you properly adjust the machine before you begin your workout, you won’t get the most benefit from the machine and in some cases, you might actually injure yourself.

The term “organic” seems to be one of those “in” things that keeps cropping up on TV food commercials and product labels.  But what exactly does “organic” mean? Contented cows?  Butterflies gliding slowly over green fields of clover?  Close, but not exactly. In order to be classified as “organic” by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and be able to …

Ever seem like your life has just hit a dead-end?  You know what I mean.  When no matter how hard you try, things just don’t seem to go your way and every time you “roll with the punches” and begin to get back up on your feet there seems to be another punch coming right at you. How do you …

I’ve seen a couple of Twitter “tweets” referring to an article that appeared last year where an Australian woman died from Mesothelioma contracted after years of handling and washing her husbands work clothes.  Her husband worked in a old power plant during the 1960′s and regularly came in contact with asbestos.

This case brings up an issue that many of

The US Department of Agriculture has launched a new website called “Your Food Environment Atlas” that provides users with the ability to map a number of USDA statistics.  It’s an excellent way to visualize some of the data. According to the site, The Atlas assembles statistics on three broad categories of food environment factors: Food Choices—Indicators of the community’s access …