Archive for May, 2007
FitnessMantra Weekend: The Side-Effects Of Obesity
Welcome to “FitnessMantra Weekend”, your once-a-week health news update. As always you can also stay updated with the latest in fitness news by subscribing separately to the Fitness Mantra del.icio.us feed.
While not a very busy week health-news wise there were four obesity-related news items. Normally that would not be surprising because each week, researchers come [...]
It Was An Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Fallacy
… that you heard for the first time today!
At the outset let me begin by saying that if you ever hear someone tell you “Eat This To Lose Weight”, then you should ask that person to wait for a minute while you replace your regular ears with a pair of “skeptic” ones! Note that the [...]
FitnessMantra Weekend: Fruits, Vegetables and Whole Grains Are Best During Allergy Season
Welcome to “FitnessMantra Weekend”, your once-a-week health news update. As always you can also stay updated with the latest in fitness news by subscribing separately to the Fitness Mantra del.icio.us feed.
It’s spring time and that means along with the promise of the inevitable good times of summer, the season also brings with it the problems [...]
World Hypertension Day – “Healthy Diet, Healthy Blood Pressure”
Today, May 17th, is World Hypertension Day, simply a day chalk-marked to remind ourselves about the dangers of this common, but often silent (and hence ignored) disease. The international theme of the day is “Healthy Diet, Healthy Blood Pressure.”
Did you know that High Blood-Pressure or hypertension affects nearly 72 million, or nearly one in three, [...]
FitnessMantra Weekend: Rethinking Thin – Is Obesity A Purely Inherited Condition?
Welcome to “FitnessMantra Weekend”, your once-a-week health news update. As always you can also stay updated with the latest in fitness news by subscribing separately to the Fitness Mantra del.icio.us feed.
On average I bookmark about 25 interesting health and fitness related articles each week and in most cases I skim through the article and can [...]
