Entries Tagged as 'health'

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

I am a 91-year-old bodybuilder

via guardian.co.uk “Then at 85 I had a crisis. I looked at myself in the mirror one day, and saw an old man. I was overweight, my posture was terrible and there was skin hanging off me where muscle used to be. I looked like a wreck. I started to consider the fact that I [...]

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Sunday, March 20th, 2011

Radiation Risk

via xkcd.com Fabulous chart comparing common sources of radiation risk.

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Monday, May 3rd, 2010

Your Office Chair Is Killing You – BusinessWeek

In a 2005 article in Science magazine, James A. Levine, an obesity specialist at the Mayo Clinic, pinpointed why, despite similar diets, some people are fat and others aren’t. “We found that people with obesity have a natural predisposition to be attracted to the chair, and that’s true even after obese people lose weight,” he [...]

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Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Kids aren’t key to women’s happiness

Via herbaliser: ‘Kids aren’t key to women’s happiness’ Although they won’t receive flowers or candy on Mother’s Day, women who have not had children seem to be just as happy in their 50s as those who did go down the family path. In fact the loneliest, least contented and most vulnerable women were found to [...]

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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

The Threat of Loneliness

A talk with John Cacioppo Loneliness also seems to impair people’s self-control, including their ability to stick with a task. In one extraordinary test – in which subjects were asked to taste as many cookies as necessary to rate their flavor – those who were told no one wanted to work with them ate twice [...]

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Friday, January 2nd, 2009

How the Bee Gees can save your life

CPR Gives “Stayin’ Alive” New Life: The Bee Gees disco song “Stayin’ Alive” might help people stay alive when they get cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) — if their rescuer knows the 1977 tune. It turns out that “Stayin Alive” has a beat that’s in sync with the recommended pace for chest compressions given during CPR. So [...]

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Monday, April 23rd, 2007

John Stone

John Stone took pictures of himself every day for 479 days from January 6, 2003 until April 28, 2004, then every month on the first of the month to the present. He says that his physique changed solely due to diet and exercise (no steroids). You can watch a video of his transformation here. (2.4 [...]

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Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Before and "8-week” photos of Vincent Regan, one of the actors in the movie “300″

What can 8 weeks of the Gym Jones 300 workout do to a man’s body? This: Vincent shed about 40 lbs and increased his deadlift from 205 to 355. About half the crew was able to do the following “300″ workout by the end of 4 months of training: “300” 25x Pull-up + 50x Deadlift [...]

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Friday, February 9th, 2007

Diet log

Belly circumference: 108.5 cm 98.5 cm

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Sunday, November 27th, 2005

How I Trained for the Tactical Strength Challenge

18 dead hang pull ups w/10 kg weight squat – 400 lbs pushups – 100 in 2 minutes 20 dips w/10 kg weight How I Trained for the Tactical Strength Challenge Josh Everett, RKC Head Strength Coach, University of California Riverside The TSC hosted in Vista, CA on 3/8/03 brought out some great competition. Fortunately [...]

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