When these sexy babes aren’t skydiving, motorbiking, scuba diving, or helicopter flying, they’re high-kicking and step-touching in the aerobics room. It makes perfect sense. What better way to hide your identity as a government agent than to masquerade as an aerobics instructor!
The premise seems airtight to me, so I’m puzzled as to why this pilot for “Velvet” never took off.
Thanks, Mike, for the link!
It isn’t the first time a study for one sex has been wrongly generalized to cover both. This time it appears that the way to calculate peak heart rate, originally based on a study entirely of men, has been found to be wrong when applied to women.
For men, the peak heart rate is 220 – age. That means a 40-year-old man should have a peak heart rate of 180 beats per minute. Women, however, should instead use the formula 206 – 88% of age, so a woman of the same age should have a peak heart rate of 171 beats per minute.
This changes a few very important things. One’s peak heart rate is used to calculate the recommended healthy range of heart rates (65% to 85% of peak) to stay within while working out. Furthermore, using the new formula specific to women, researchers are now able to better predict a woman’s risk of heart-related death.
Thanks to Barbara for the link.
What’s country hip hop, you ask? Well it’s only the newest trend in country line dancing. Don’t take my word for it, though. Let Diane Horner show you how it’s done.
Ah, the Vuvuzela! Such an integral part of the World Cup. Before you pick yours up and give it a toot, be sure to follow this handy guide.
Found on topcultured.com.
You’ve been good. You’ve gone to the gym regularly and have been watching what you eat. It’s time to give yourself a little treat.
How about indulging in a Cold Stone PB&C shake? It’s what Men’s Health calls “The Worst Beverage in America.” If you choose to inhale one of these, get ready for a day’s worth of calories, over three times the daily recommended allowance of saturated fat, and an amount of sugar equivalent to that found in 30 Chewy Chips Ahoy Cookies… all in one giant cup.
Thanks to Dave for the reference.
People 100 years ago did, because someone this large back then was considered an oddity.
Meet the late Chauncy Morlan, a circus “fat man.” Had Chauncy lived today, he certainly wouldn’t have had the same shock value. In fact, he probably wouldn’t even be noticed.
Very telling of how our impression of a healthy body weight has changed over the past century.
No, not the iPad. Something even more innovative and game-changing.
Until now, we’ve been led to believe that a sandwich, by definition, is two slices of bread with some kind of filling in between. How foolish we’ve been!
Leave it to KFC to think outside the box and bring us the Double Down, the first fast-food sandwich to use slabs of fried chicken as buns.
Inside the “buns”: Bacon and mayonnaise. Nutritionally, it clocks in at 540 calories, 32 grams of fat, and 1380 mg of sodium. How does it taste? The consensus, at least among discerning palates, is that it’s an overly moist, overly salty mess.
Although it isn’t health food by any stretch, it’s also important to realize that the Double Down is nowhere near the worst the fast-food industry has offered. It’s no worse, for example, than a Quarter Pounder with Cheese from McDonald’s.
In a bill currently being considered by our competent state legislature: “No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant.”
Not surprisingly, chefs are up in arms over this heavy-handed and totally unreasonable proposal to lower the sodium intake of restaurant-goers.
This bill is an unfortunately consequence of the smoking and trans fat bans having passed so successfully and with such good results. Our lawmakers are starting to think it’s their responsibility to monitor every aspect of our health.
This time, it appears, they’ve gone way too far.
