About Syndication, RSS feeds, and Atom feeds
Many people have questions about how to use RSS feeds, and how to set one up for their blogs. The good news is that most blogging platforms have support for syndication built in (usually including RSS ...
Why You Can't Always Trust the News
A number of prominent UK newspapers have declared that "Size 12 is too fat for young women". In US terms this is equivalent to a Size 10.
The newspapers then go on to list what else young women think ...
Celebrities use kettlebells to flatten tummies, sculpt biceps
Kettlebells, one of the oldest pieces of gym equipment around, have become one of the hottest workouts today. Weighing up to 200 pounds, kettlebells originally were used by soldiers and body builders ...
Gender Affects Ideas of Weight Control
A University of Nebraska study confirmed that in college, female students are much more likely than males to diet. When males tended to try to shed pounds, they opted for exercise more consistently, w ...
Antioxidants
I hear the term ‘antioxidant’ everywhere; in magazines, newspapers and even beauty product commercials. It seems widely accepted as a good thing for us, yet many of us have absolutely no idea why tha ...
The Best Diets of 2007
Consumer Reports have chosen the "best" diets and diet books. The Volumetrics eating plan was chosen as the best diet, and Bob Greene's Best Life Diet chosen as the best book.
This has been covered h ...
Healthy eating program helps slim school kids
The kids voted for their favorite vegetables, school cafeteria staff more accustomed to warming up frozen dishes learned how to slice fresh fruit and restaurants changed their menus.
And the experime ...
Take a news break!
Dr. Andrew Weil, of Harvard Medical School and noted health author, writes of taking a "news break". The idea is to take at least one day, a week or even longer and shut off the television news, fold ...
The Positive (Not Too Serious) Side of Being Sick
I write a weekly newspaper column that is syndicated in several papers in northern California. Since you might not get to read it, I am sharing it here. I hope you enjoy.
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Not all is rosy ...
