Archive for December, 2007

FitnessMantra Weekend: The “Health And Fitness New Year’s Resolutions” Edition

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.
OK so we’re finally there. As the last days of 2007 fly past, there’s the tendency to think that we can all somehow magically transform [...]


For Healthy Grocery Shopping Stay Along The Outside Wall (Periphery)

Wired Magazine is apparently not just for the technologically inclined any more. Its new issue features something made especially for health and fitness maniacs: Ground Zero of the Obesity Epidemic? The Center of Your Grocery Store informs us that the most healthful of foods in the grocery store can be found right along the outside [...]


FitnessMantra Weekend: Fat Is Becoming Normal

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.
One way of looking at height and weight ratios across the country would make two-thirds of us overweight and if that is truly the case [...]


Live Fit Or Die

So, what will it take to get a person to start taking fitness more seriously and lose some weight? Sure, friends and relatives could convince him or companies could tie compensation with health levels. But it looks like only one person can really make a convincing argument that will grab our attention like no other: [...]


FitnessMantra Weekend: The Saturated Fat – Heart Disease Link

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.
The best any person can do is to make the seemingly right choices based on the most current information available at the time those choices [...]