Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Wall Street Journal: Calorie Counts on Menus

Wall Street Journal:  Calorie counts in restaurants make little difference


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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Reverse Abdominal Crunch

Lie down on your tummy and contract your abdominal muscles so as to bring up your lower back off the floor. If you are strong enough, deepen your contraction to bring your upper arms and upper pelvis off the floor. Do four sets of ten repetitions.

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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

TODAY Show: Children and Bodybuilding

The TODAY had an excellent segment on children bodybuilding. It's all about balance. You do not want them obsessed with their bodies early on, and heavy weights can injure their growing tissues. However, light weights with many repetitions can condition them for life and sports and going to the gym regularly if they choose starting at 18 years old. I advocate more walking, calisthenics and sports for children.

The psychologists's and doctor's comments at the end are great.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43770379/ns/today-today_news/t/child-bodybuilding-how-buff-your-kid/

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TODAY Show: Women's Bodies and Breasts

The TODAY show yesterday continued its excellent coverage of women's health and body image with a show on American's "breast obsession". I think that Europeans are less obsessed with that as they are less likely to get drunk (depending also on the country) than Americans because it is not so forbidden. Women go topless on the beach, including grandmothers with their grandchildren, and people drink a little as teenagers or younger, not having to binge drink at the magical age of 21 years old.

A psychologist and other guest stalked about how breasts are power and how trends are changing to a more curvy look. I am happy about the latter. I am an advocate of women having a balance of thinness, muscles and fat. Some are healthier or look better taller, shorter, bigger or smaller, but as an average, the middle road is healthiest and most beautiful.

What is interesting, however, is that women often run to be the latest "fad", as they put it, using extreme dieting and exercise, plastic surgery, bogus lotions, laxatives, and more. What people must do first is to accept their bodies, put health first, connect with themselves through meditation, nature and working out, and then choose for themselves what energy level they want and how they want to look, while loving themselves along the way. Anything other than these is in a context of not good enough, something is wrong with me, getting there, making it, and other various such elements. See my blog post "Choose Your Body" from years ago. Here is the TODAY show link:

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2011/07/18/nbcs-today-wonders-why-americans-are-obsessed-breasts-then-shows-breas

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Thursday, July 07, 2011

Excellent Information on Stretching

Posted by Greg Brookes on LinkedIn:

http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=&articleID=621027250&gid=134566&type=member&item=60929236&articleURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gbpersonaltraining.com%2Fexercise%2F10-things-you-didnt-know-about-stretching&urlhash=O8N9&goback=.gde_134566_member_60929236

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Read New Report on Americans and Obesity

By the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

http://www.rwjf.org/childhoodobesity/product.jsp?id=72575&cid=XEM_1095291

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Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Check out My Meetup Group Page

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