Healthy Fitness Network

From Diet Blog Share: So I’m curious….in these days of 401K’s becoming 201K’s (401 K’s is the name for a retirement fund for those non US residents and 201K’s are how they are now being referred to seen as they have so decimated), home foreclosures soaring along with job losses.

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From Diet Blog Share: STUDY: Out of 4311 patrons (visiting either McDonald’s, Burger King, Starbucks, and Au Bon Pain), guess how many checked nutrition info…?

6

That’s 0.1% of patrons.

Who checks nutritional info before buying? Anyone?

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Flickr: SvadilfariWith Easter fast approaching and Peter Cottontail bearing down on us, Cadbury Crme Eggs, the famous chocolate eggs filled with sugary yolk-ish cream, are once again hitting supermarket shelves.

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Apologies for some recent outages. Unfortunately the software that Diet Blog runs on creates really big files for the user pictures (that appear next to comments). This rapidly chewed up my bandwidth allowance and the site went down. I’ve had to switch back to using Gravatar for commenter pictures (although your uploaded picture still displays on your profile page).

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Finding myself on the wrong side of 30, it’s tough to keep up with the vernacular of today’s young health and fitness enthusiasts. From legitimate health or medical conditions to trendy lexicon and pejorative slang, here is a partial list of terms you may have read, overheard or use yourself.

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You probably think of gardening as a gentle, leisurely activity safely enjoyed by the older generation. But new advice issued by the British College of Osteopathic Medicine warns gardeners to warm up, stretch regularly and take breaks to prevent the risk of injury. (more…)

Photo: CLOSER/BERNARD ASHTONI’ve been too sick to work, too tired to work, and I’ll be honest, way too hung over to work, but NEVER would I be so ballsy or stupid enough to say, “I’m too fat to work.” (more…)

A new study has indicated that moderate drinking – one to two drinks per day – can improve both men’s and women’s bone density.

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From Diet Blog Share: Can you name any specific Mediterranean-style weight-loss programs designed for overweight people with type 2 diabetes?

Why is this important? 85%of people with type 2 diabetes are overweight. Cardiovascular disease (e.g, heart attacks and strokes) is unusually common in people with diabetes. People with diabetes are also more prone to develop age-related cognitive impairment and dementia. The Mediterranean diet has been shown to reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease and dementia in non-diabetics, as well as to reduce the incidence of type 2 diabetes.

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Professor James O. Hill popularized the 10,000 step phenomenon – an idea that became an initiative of sorts, encouraging people to get at least 10,000 steps each day. Pedometers became popular gadgets, flying off of store shelves and making their way into boxes of Frosted Flakes (I won’t go there).

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