Archive for October, 2006
How Fitness became my Mantra
Happy Halloween! Today’s the day when monsters and ghouls roam the streets in search of a sweet fix and even adults succumb to the guilty pleasures of consuming way more candies and treats than they could hold down. People love to get a good scare this day, and so it is doubly strange that it [...]
del.icio.us Friday
I am starting a weekly feature which will appear every Friday on Fitness Mantra. It is simply a review of the current week’s best health, fitness and nutrition related stories from all over the world that I am tracking using the del.icio.us bookmarking service. You can also subscribe to the Fitness Mantra del.icio.us feed separately.
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Can I get a medium size?
I am a huge fan of the Foxtrot comic series and can especially relate to Jason, the poor geeky nerd surrounded by his regular folks. But a recent comic made me wince:
Ouch.
This really hits home in my case because I am apparently one of those oddly built human beings whose legs are longer than his [...]
Eating Breakfast: Fact or Hype?
Do you remember the very first post on Fitness Mantra? (Probably not, because this blog was just 1 day old and I was the only reader!) It was posted on May 4th, 2006 and was called “Break That Fast” . In that post I extolled the virtues of a good, healthful, well-rounded breakfast so one [...]
Affordable and Healthful Foods
A while back when I wrote about the cost and benefit of eating healthful foods I began by saying “Eating fresh healthful food is always going to be more expensive than the mass produced, refined, processed, packaged foods.” and that is still the case for a majority of the Fitman Foods discussed on this site [...]
