Archive for May, 2006
QT #1: Drink fruit juice with extra pulp
I am starting a new series in this blog called Quick Tips. Typically these will be no more than a couple of sentences and it will always be about making a minor change in your lifestyle leading to a huge change in your health and fitness levels. I have also created a new Category for [...]
A beautiful equation
When I was in college, I was struck by the beauty and simplicity of Euler’s equation:
which, for the special condition x=pi, reduces to an even more divine form: ei pi = -1
Never have two transcendental numbers (e, pi), an imaginary number (i) and a negative integer come together in such perfect harmony.
Don’t worry, I [...]
Defining “diet”
The word diet is primarily defined as The usual food and drink of a person or animal. There is a second definition of this word as well: A regulated selection of foods for cosmetic weight loss and unfortunately when someone mentions “diet” today, people almost always associate it with the second definition.
Diet originates from the [...]
Break that fast
The very first post on Fitness Mantra and I choose a boring topic like breakfast, you ask? Well, consider this: One study found that people who did without breakfast were at four times greater risk of obesity compared to those who started the day off right. (Via HealthCentral)
Breakfast is indeed the most important meal of [...]
Welcome to Fitness Mantra!
Fitness Mantra is the place on the web that shows you how you can easily fit fitness into your life. Fitness is not something you should be going out of your way for. It is not about unreasonable diets, mindless exercising or buying all the fitness equipment you can lay your hands on.
Fitness really is [...]
