- Useful exercises that you can do at your workstation
Did you know that you can burn upto 350 calories in a work day by just tapping your footThebelow graphic is illustrative of how important it is to keep your body moving all the time to keep fit and healthy. Some of these…
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- Will the popularity of diesel cars in India cause a cancer epidemic?
A WHO (World Health Organization) reports says diesel fumes are more carcenogenic than secondhand cigarette smoke. It says diesel exhaust may be a possible cause of bladder cancer.
Diesel exhaust is now in W.H.O.’s G…
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- Mcdonalds' Happy Meals Toys are only a marketing tool to exploit kids' immature brains
Modern advertising makes sure the devil gets inside your house in a shiny packaging. Take Mcdonalds' happy Meals Toys, for example. Here's what a mother in Caifornia, Monet Parham, who is suing Mcdonalds over the toys is…
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- The #1 secret to losing weight
The FTC did a study and found that 55% of all weight-loss advertisements made claims that were most likely false or didn't provide any proof. Incidentally, the weight-loss industry is worth $30 billion a year, mostly mad…
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- Simple Things Poster #20: How to eliminate stress completely from your life
Stress kills. Here's how you can eliminate stress from your life, in an easy- to-follow text poster format. Just print it out.
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- Simple Things Poster #12: How to lose weight
Print out this simple poster filled with tips about losing weight.
If you liked this, please check out The Success Manual - .com 600+ pages of compiled wisdom on 125 important traits, skills and activities.Next: Read …
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- Simple things #4: How to have a flat stomach - text poster
A poster about how to have a flat stomach.
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- Main ideas from The Lean: A Revolutionary (and Simple!) 30-Day Plan for Healthy, Lasting Weight Loss
Kathy Freston's book on , known for her books on Vegan diets, has written one of those 'day/month' diet books, which are onloy useful if you follow them for at least an year or two.
The book also has lots of lists of…
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- Main ideas from The 17 Day Diet: A Doctor's Plan Designed for Rapid Results
Mike Moreno's book does a (yet another!) take on low carb diets, with the added innovation of the arbitrarily chosen 17 day figure.
Main ideas from the book:
1. For the first 4 days, eat a lot of chicken, turkey, f…
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- Main ideas from The Blood Sugar Solution: The UltraHealthy Program for Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Feeling Great Now!
Mark Hyman's book is different from other books on diebetic life as it also focuses on environmental factors such as pollution, pesticides, hormones and antibiotics in our food.
Main ideas from the book:
1. It is …
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- Main ideas from Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
A. J. Jacobs's hugely entertaining book is about his experiences and lessons after he consulted an army of experts, from sleep consultants and sex clinicians to nutritionists and dermatologists. That's not all. Jacob als…
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- Nike's FuelBand: Do we need yet another wearable exercise monitor?
Will you fork up $149 for Nike's new Fuelband exercise bracelet, gleaming LED lights and all, when there are better, cheaper options in the wearable exercise monitors in the market?
One can imagine middle-class t…
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- 11 most important figures about birth control in the United States
Forget about politics and morals. At end of it, birth and birth control are about money. These are the most important figures on the subject that you must know:
1. Generic versions of birth control pill costs $9/month…
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- Adventures in teen smoking: Behind the epidemic is heavy marketing by tobacco companies
The idea behind all tobacco advertising is that smoking makes you 'cool', without having to do anything 'harmful'. Not surprisingly, 2.6 million teenagers smoke cigarettes. 1 out 4 high schooler smokes.
Now, let's loo…
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- Why global warming may be making us fat: increased CO2 levels affect hormones that stimulate activity
Danish researchers say carbon dioxide in earth's atmosphere is making us all fatter, as COs may affect performance of a harmone orexins, which stimulate wakefulness and activity in our bodies. Researchers give the U.S. a…
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- To stay healthy, run a hundred micro-marathons: And do the 10,000 steps a day
Although it is recommended that we walk 10000+ (roughly five miles of walking) steps day, most of use barely do half of that daily. So, what do we doMy suggestion: break it down. Run a 100 micro-marathons throughout the …
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- How do we reduce our sugar consumption: Impose taxes on buying sugar, put up age restrictions (like Tobacco)
SInce, there is no nutritional need for food with added sugar, soon you will find sugar on the list of things disallowed for using food stamps for: joining the ranks of tobacco, alcohol,vitamins, pet foods, household sup…
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- How living alone might not be a healthy idea: Makes us eat bad
The NYT reports that 1 in every 4 American household is occupied by just one person. This might be a good idea if you are a genius in hiding, the next Hemingway (he was a pretty social man) or someone, but it might not b…
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- Most women actually don't know they have gained 5 pounds extra weight
Women aren't as weight-conscious as we thought them to be. Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch did a study and found that one-third of 466 women of various ethnicities they observed over a period of …
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- How Asperger's Syndrome got us the geek culture (and how being obsessive might not be good all the time)
Aspergher's greatest (or worst) gift to humanity might be the tech culture centered around the Silicon Valley and elsewhere in America, as geek gods such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg create multi-billion dollar tech co…
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