The group exercise schedule is going to change in January. I’m playing with the idea of dropping my Thursday and Friday single step classes and replacing them with a double class (step, TBC) on Wednesdays at 49th & Broadway. If I indeed make this schedule change, I hope it won’t disrupt too many of your [...]
Good news. From the New York State website: Governor David A. Paterson today announced that, effective immediately, health care providers may make the H1N1 flu vaccine available to all New Yorkers who want the vaccine, including those who are not in priority groups established by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). If [...]
Next time you tell someone that you take aerobics, be careful — they might think this is what you do at the gym.
It’s been shown that the act of smiling has a positive emotional effect on the smiler. It therefore stands to reason that any device which constantly reminds us to smile must be good for us. Enter the Happiness Hat. A sensor measures whether you’re smiling or not, and if the answer is no, you get [...]
Victims of “eyelash hypotrichosis” (inadequate or thin eyelashes) need not suffer a moment longer. The miracle of modern science brings you Latisse, a treatment you apply directly to your eyelids to cure this most heinous affliction. Funny thing about Latisse — it used to be a glaucoma medicine called Lumigan. When applied to the lashes [...]
As we gear up for a flu season, with H1N1 now in the mix, we’re being advised to wash our hands on a regular basis. Bad news. Research from the Netherlands “suggests that the H1N1 flu travels mostly by air, not via hand-to-hand contact—and therefore won’t be prevented through hand-washing.” This is not to say [...]
“PERSONAL SPACE is an object classified as ‘functional art’, created by the Brazilian artist and inventor Vivian Puxian. It ensures your personal space is always kept safe, and protects you against infectious and contagious diseases, such as the swine flu.” Get onto the subway during rush hour with one of these things, and swine flu [...]
“Like the unique African Baobab tree, which nourishes its community with its leaves and fruit, McDonald’s has branched out to the African-American community nourishing it with valuable programs and opportunities.” This has to be a joke. I’m not African-American, and I’M offended by what is a clearly a marketing strategy to target black people. On [...]
Now there’s literally no excuse. At just FOUR minutes a day, you can’t afford not to get this machine. It’s called the ROM machine, and it’ll set you back a mere $14,615. High-intensity interval training does have its benefits, but the bursts of intensity have to be of a certain length in order to be [...]
Next time your stomach doesn’t agree with you after a day at the beach, don’t blame that hot dog that you ate. It could have been the sand. A recent study in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that people who played in beach sand were more likely to get some form intestinal disease. More [...]