Yet another benefit of exercise for men!!

 A new study of men with prostate cancer finds that physical activity is associated with a lower risk of overall mortality and of death due to prostate cancer.

Are you going to embrace or ignore the science???

.......The most recent headlines have raised concerns that diet sodas boost stroke risk. Diet and regular sodas have both been linked to obesity, kidney damage, and certain cancers. Regular soft drinks have been linked to elevated blood pressure.

"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.
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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)

Real Age Calculator

Interested in calculating your biological age?  I just tried these two sites:

http://www.realage.com/the-you-docs/my-realage

This was took 15 minutes or so.  It was fairly comprehensive and gave me some interesting feedback.  If you have the time, this is a great resource for working on a health improvement plan.

http://www.sonnyradio.com/realage.htm

This was a much quicker survey.  That being said, it is much less comprehensive but still offered insights on changes I could make to impact my health.

Managing Diabetes without insulin?

A researcher at Children's Hospital in Boston is experimenting with a protein in the liver that, when artificially simulated, controls blood glucose levels without the use of insulin.  Research is providing an interesting potential option in the management of diabetes!  Click here for more information.

How to keep your kids Intuitive Eaters

This morning there was a very interesting piece on NPR talking about techniques for developing picky eaters into people who like a wider variety of foods.  Click on over  -- you might learn something that changes your eating behaviors, too!