Archive | December, 2006

27 December 2006

Done eating?

Having trouble getting back to the gym after all the holiday festivities? Allow me to provide some motivation: • To work off the calories acquired from a single gingerbread cookie, you’ll need to swim 18 minutes.• How about a martini and some party mix? You’ll need to bike for 47 minutes to burn it off.• [...]

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18 December 2006

Rejoice! Your cell phone won’t kill you.

I remember seeing a report on the news once about a woman who died from a brain tumor, supposedly from her cell phone. The scary thing about it was that the tumor was in the shape of her phone’s antenna, on the side of her head where she used her phone. Turns out this may [...]

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04 December 2006

Slow down and eat less

We’ve all heard the advice that it’s better to eat more slowly, presumably so the stomach gets a chance to register that it’s full. Strangely enough, however, this tip hasn’t had any scientific studies to back it up… until now. A study done on 30 women at the University of Rhode Island concluded that “the [...]

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