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The 50 Million Pound Challenge
Channel surfing on a lazy Sunday afternoon brought me to CNN and a news item about something called The 50 Million Pound Challenge – a creation of Dr. Ian Smith, a quite popular medical contributor to such shows as The View and Celebrity Fit Club on VH1. Community-based weight-loss efforts like The Biggest Loser [...]
FitnessMantra Is On Twitter!
FitnessMantra is the latest to join the micro-blogging craze that is Twitter and you can catch all the updates at http://twitter.com/FitnessMantra.
For those unfamiliar with Twitter, it is quite similar to a blog except you can expect more frequent, shorter, updates. With a limit of 140 characters per message (or “tweet” as it is called), brevity [...]
The 2008 National President’s Challenge For Fitness
On March 20th, Eli Manning, the winning New York Giants quarterback of this year’s SuperBowl, kicked off the annual President’s Challenge For Fitness. This annual event is a challenge to get Americans to be more active by exercising for at least 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week for 6 weeks and runs all [...]
World Diabetes Day: Diabetes In Children And Adolescents
Today, November 14th, is World Diabetes Day and the theme for this year is “Diabetes in Children and Adolescents”. In fact, today also marks the first day that the United Nations will observe World Diabetes Day through a series of activities all around the world.
I am sure that there isn’t a single one among us [...]
Comical Perspectives On Obesity
Political cartoonists are experts at poking fun at the government, public policies and politicians. But when those same folks turn their pencils and drawing board toward topics like obesity, nothing but fun ensues as evidenced by the series of comics on MSNBC Health titled “Perspectives On Obesity“.
This Halloween sit back and enjoy the lighter side [...]
