GYM GYM WEIGHTSOLUTION! (Break it down!)

When I lived in Japan, one of the thrills of the weekend (cheap thrills, to be sure) was to go to the local Japanese video arcade and see the throngs of Japanese teens dancing “Padda Padda,” as I recall the game was called, or as we call it here, “Dance Dance Revolution.” [...]

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"One high-fat meal a day gets the doctor to stay”

The proposition might seem hyperbolic, but a new study published in Journal of Nutrition supports the proposition that a high fat meal has the opposite effect as does the proverbial “an apple a day.”
The study, conducted by, among others, the Penn State Vascular Health Interventions Lab, found that “[t]he consumption of a single high-fat meal [...]

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Obesity: Another Inconvenient Truth

The 29 Mar 07 Wall Street Journal reports World Health Organization (WHO) figures that indicate obesity is only getting worse in the States, and around the world. Estimated obesity rates for people aged 15 and older have grown since 2002:

United States. 2002: 34.9%. 2005: 39.2%.
UK. 2002: 20.0%. 2005: 22.9%
Germany. [...]

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Pardon me: are those Spartan abs under your jacket and tie?

As if we all haven’t heard enough about 300, there’s one thing haunting me that just won’t go away. No, it isn’t the horrible ginormous man-hands of Xerxes on Leonidas’ shoulders (That’s “Xerxes,” as in “Pat” and “Chris”). Rather, it’s the perfect condition of each and every one of those damn [...]

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