Archive for November, 2006
del.icio.us Friday
Welcome to del.icio.us Friday, Thanksgiving edition. You can also stay updated with this news as it happens by subscribing separately to the Fitness Mantra del.icio.us feed.
Featured this week is an article from The Lean Plate Club, one of my favorite columns (it is authored by a Nutritionist Sally Squires and appears in the Washington [...]
Obesity: Not just diet and exercise alone?
Ask the average person why people are getting fatter and the response is likely to be things like “we are eating more” and “we exercise less”. The shrewd among us may have even noticed things like increased dependence on automation (escalators, elevators, automobiles) and decreased focus on the right kind of diet – but these [...]
del.icio.us Friday
Here is your del.icio.us Friday, the weekly health news update. You can also stay updated with this news as it happens by subscribing separately to the Fitness Mantra del.icio.us feed.
With World Diabetes Day falling on November 14th, I have seen many news sources this week focus on this serious and often preventable disease. Diabetes is [...]
World Diabetes Day: An urgent wake-up call
November 14th! When I was a young school goer in India this was a day we kids looked forward to all year long, because in India November 14th is celebrated every year as Childrens’ Day to mark the occasion of the birthday of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister, and one who genuinely [...]
del.icio.us Friday
Friday! Time for del.icio.us Friday, the weekly health news update. You can also stay updated with this news as it happens by subscribing separately to the Fitness Mantra del.icio.us feed. As a new feature, every week I’ll highlight one “must-read” article of the week in bold (see item #15 below). This week it’s the New [...]
