Lead Article
Published: Mar 4th, 2010
This is the next in a series of 10 articles based on the American Council on Exercise’s (ACE) article titled “Top 10 Mistakes People Make in the Gym.” Check the “Related Posts” links at the end of this article or use the “Search This Site” box at the top to find the other articles in this series.
Mistake Number 2: Unbalanced …
Featured
Published: Feb 11th, 2010
Plastic containers have become so much a part of our lives that it's hard to imagine a world without them. We store food in them, ...
Published: Jan 7th, 2010
The older I get the louder I hear my "life clock" ticking. All of us only have so much time on Earth. All of us ...
Published: Dec 10th, 2009
I've found a way to really supercharge my weight workouts that I think you're going to really love. If you've been lifting weights for some ...
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Fitness
Published: Mar 2nd, 2010
The American Council on Exercise (ACE) posted an article on their site called “Top 10 Mistakes People Make in the Gym.” I wanted to turn that list into a series of articles providing more information on each mistake. Here is the first of a series of 10 posts on “Exercise Mistakes.”
Mistake Number 1: The All or Nothing Approach
Most of us …
Nutrition & Diet
Published: Feb 26th, 2010
Well, it appears to be official: Obesity has edged out smoking in terms of health hazards. According to a study performed by Columbia University and the City College of New York and published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, being obese, defined by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as having a Body Mass Index or BMI of 30 …
Mind & Spirit
Published: Mar 2nd, 2010
A friend of mine sent me one of those office emails that have been forwarded so many times, you have to scroll all the way down to the bottom to find the original message. At first I thought it was another of those joke emails that he thinks are so funny. But this one was different.
This one was about the …
Environment
Published: Jan 26th, 2010
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
Reviews
Published: Feb 26th, 2010
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 to and acquisition …
