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Read more: Vacation Planning
Vacation Planning
18 comments on Vacation PlanningLast August I took a vacation which required a great deal of walking. The opportunity for me to join the man of the house at a convention came up just 2 or 3 weeks before the event, just 5 months after I’d used all the physical therapy my insurance company covers per year so that I could walk. I was keeping to my PT exercises and walking a…
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Read more: Today is the last day…
Today is the last day…
…the last day of the first year of this blog. Part of me is surprised that I’m still blogging with no end in sight. Part of me is surprised that so many of you are reading and commenting. As a grin, here’s some of the more interesting search terms I’ve seen recently: soda obesity — I didn’t know soda could be obese… why is the biggest loser so…
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Read more: How Do You Comfort Sore Muscles?
How Do You Comfort Sore Muscles?
As littem noted today, sore muscles are a big reason to not exercise. It’s not uncommon to start a workout program and end up pretty sore the day after exercising. (Or to end up sore after going dancing or walking all over Disneyland.) What to do? First, the bad news: It’s supposed to hurt some if you’re trying to build your muscles. It’s called delayed onset muscle…
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Read more: Friday Fun: Callan’s Song
Friday Fun: Callan’s Song
This video is of SJ Tucker, singing Betsy Tinney’s “Callan’s Song”, aka The Ballad of the Boy Cat. (Does cat sex require a “PG-13” rating or only “PG”?) This song has also been recorded by SJ & Betsy’s band Tricky Pixie. The lyrics, album information, streaming audio, downloads, ordering info, etc are on their site.
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Read more: Fat Women Feel Uncomfortable Exercising. Film at 11.
Fat Women Feel Uncomfortable Exercising. Film at 11.
This isn’t new, but since I’ve been posting about exercise recently I thought it was relevant. A Temple University study of 278 women who were enrolled in an exercise-encouragement program comes this gem on comfort levels with exercise: The women completed a questionnaire when the study began and during three- and 12-month follow-up assessments. The questionnaire dealt with mental barriers to exercise, including: Feeling self-conscious. Not wanting…
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Read more: Newsweek: Fat and Healthy
Newsweek: Fat and Healthy
Lesley at Fatshionista linked to a good Newsweek article on fat hatred. While reading it I noticed a related web exclusive by Daniel Heimpel* called Fat and Healthy: Why It’s Possible. Heimpel discusses some of the research on being fat and healthy (or not), citing Katherine Flegal’s study which found that being overweight decreased the risk of death compared to normal-weight folks, and even moderately obese…
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Read more: Thankful Thursday
Thankful Thursday
[Another weekly exercise in gratitude.] 1) Good music & dancing this weekend. 2) My lace-trimmed v-neck top. 3) Beautiful weather. 4) Being able to walk further and faster than I did a few weeks ago. 5) Getting adjusted to new schedule (shifting my days earlier a few hours) so that I’m not OMG SLEEPY all the time. :) 6) I’m eating out less and enjoying it.
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Read more: Alzheimers, Brain Size, and Fat
Alzheimers, Brain Size, and Fat
Have you seen the story that older fat people have smaller brains than thinner ones, which has been previously linked with Alzheimer’s disease? Yeah. There may be a correlation there, yes. Future studies may bear this out. Has a link been noticed between weight and Alzheimer’s anywhere else? The Alzheimer’s Association does list weight as a risk factor. Sort of. It starts with the fact that age…
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Read more: Alli/Xenical and Liver Damage?
Alli/Xenical and Liver Damage?
From Monthly Prescribing Reference: The FDA has notified healthcare professionals and consumers that it is reviewing new safety information regarding reports of liver-related adverse events in patients taking orlistat, which is marketed in the U.S. as Xenical (from Roche) and Alli (from GlaxoSmithKline). The FDA has received 32 reports of serious liver injury, including 6 cases of liver failure, in patients using orlistat. The FDA is not…
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Read more: Another Logic Question
Another Logic Question
I’ve read several stories on the new US life expectancy data. The quick story? Life expectancy for white females born in 2007: 80.7 years Life expectancy for white males born in 2007: 75.8 years Life expectancy for black females born in 2007: 77 years Life expectancy for black males born in 2007: 70.2 years Overall life expectancy for babies born in 2007: 77.9 years Now, what…
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