Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Should we need to be told we should limit our articificial food coloring intake?

I would think that just makes good sense!  But...if you'd like more information on the debate, click here to link to the NY Times article on some of the studies linking artificial food colorings to ADHA.

The average cost of a sick day in the US -- anyone have any guesses??

According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, the average cost, in lost productivity, of a sick day is:

$348!!

Our National recovery just might depend on the US getting healthier and staying healthier!  It just costs too much to be sick!

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

"So I am a few pounds overweight. How can that be such a big deal for my knee pain?"

"So I am a few pounds overweight. How can that be such a big deal for my knee pain?"


Consider that with activities of daily living and modest exercise, 2 to 6 lb of force are generated across the knee joint for every pound of a person's body weight.4 For some activities, forces across the patellofemoral joint can be as great as 20 times body weight.

In performing bending, kneeling, and climbing activities, for example, a 30-year-old woman with knee pain who weighed 120 lb at age 18 years, before her 3 pregnancies, and now weighs 285 lb is carrying an extra 165 lb of body weight.

That can result in an additional 660 lb of force across the patellofemoral joint with each step.
**source**

Saturday, March 5, 2011

The Job -- will you join me???

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.  --Seth Godin (from the Poke the Box workbook)