Making Strides Against Breast Cancer

Alex is walking in the “Making Strides Against Breast Cancer” walk in Central Park this Sunday. To sponsor him, go here. (“Kringelein” is Alex.)

I’ve already contributed. Half of the money I gave was because Alex’s mother is a survivor of breast cancer. The other half was because Alex’s mother is a survivor of Alex.

Longer, not harder

You pig. What did you think this post was about?

Anyway, most of us (let’s be honest) are more interested in keeping our butts small than our hearts healthy. There’s no denying, however, that a healthy heart is a wonderful “side effect” of working out.

Do you have to kill yourself in class in order to keep your ticker ticking? You’d think so, but you wouldn’t necessarily be right. A new study says that heart health is more a function of exercise quantity than exercise intensity. So although “additional benefits” come from increasing intensity, working out more is better for your heart than working out harder.

Thanks to Dave “Whoah!” Feldman for the reference.

Vitamins? Don’t bother.

For over five years now, I’ve been popping a multi-vitamin every morning. VM-75. One pill has enough stuff in it to fortify a horse (and boy, does it smell like one too).

Now I find out that I may have been wasting my time. Swallowing those stinky vitamins probably hasn’t been doing me any good. Well, at least is hasn’t been doing me any harm.