Keeping Fit With The Wii Fit

Written by Charlie on August 3, 2008
Exercise and the proper diet are the best things for a healthy body – we all know that. Then again, knowing and actually doing are two totally different things. This is especially true for a lot of people these days who find themselves always in front of their computers and television sets. When do they find the time to exercise? Enter the Nintendo Wii. With their new product line – aptly dubbed the Wii Fit – Nintendo is posed to capture a new market, if ...

Tone Your Behind With The FitFlop?

Written by Charlie on July 20, 2008
And I thought I have seen everything there is to see about “easy way out” weight loss products! Apparently I was wrong – I had not heard about the FitFlop, have you? These special flip flops are supposed to help you tone your legs (and bum I suppose) and give you more comfort than any other pair of shoes or flip flops. FitFlops seem to be the next big thing in footwear, especially since Oprah featured them in her show and has named ...

Keeping Your Feet Pretty AND Healthy (Part 2)

Written by Charlie on June 24, 2008
feet Here are two more interesting myths about our feet – I have to admit I had always taken them to be true. Myth: Over-the-counter scrubs and soaks for corns are safe and effective. Fact: "At-home soaks or scrubs would just exfoliate, not remove corns," Vlahovic said. Diagnosis: A corn is a buildup of skin with a hard center. This often is caused by a hammertoe in which the toe knuckle rubs against the shoe. To permanently remove a corn, the hammertoe must be corrected so that it stops rubbing against the shoe. Or, just ...
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Salmonella In Our Tomatoes

Written by Charlie on June 18, 2008
tomatoes The S-word creates quite a big stir each time it is mentioned in the news. It used to be chicken that was in the forefront when the issue of salmonella came up. Now it’s in tomatoes! So what happened? News-Medical.net reports: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says a cluster of nine cases of salmonella poisoning in a single geographic location, may lead to the source of an outbreak - it appears that all of the sickened individuals ate similar tomatoes. The cluster is possibly nine cases reported by the Chicago Department of Health where ...

What’s Good For The Earth Is Good For You

Written by Charlie on May 2, 2008
plastic bottles Is it really? Well, according to Dr. Mao over at Yahoo Health, this is quite true. He also presents some practical things that we could all do to help the environment and be healthier at the same time. Seeing as we have just recently celebrated Earth Day, this topic is quite appropriate, don’t you think? Let’s take a look at some of Dr. Mao’s suggestions. Less Plastic, More Health Lightweight, durable and versatile, plastic is everywhere in our modern world; this is bad news for the environment and our ...
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You and Your Body Fat Percentage

Written by Charlie on March 19, 2008
body fat calculator I don’t know what got into my colleague’s head today but she came back from her lunch break with a new toy – a body fat percentage calculator. At first, everyone was just snubbing the gadget – especially the women. After one tried it, though, everyone queued up to check their body fat percentage. It was quite amusing as none of us really knew what the numbers meant – so I took it upon myself to do some research and try to understand what my numbers mean. According to ...

Yoghurt Anyone?

Written by Charlie on January 26, 2008
DanActive Have you been watching TV lately? Or maybe reading magazines and the proliferation of print ads? If you have been paying any attention, you probably would have noticed the prevalence of ads relating to yoghurt and its health benefits. Yet is yoghurt all that they claim it to be? Perhaps the most popular brand that sells yoghurt these days is Dannon. Their main product is Activia, which is part of the DanActive line of yoghurt products. The selling point is the fact that these products contain probiotics. ...
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My search to best Drug Rehabilitation centre

Written by Charlie on November 26, 2007
A few days back one of my friend was taken to our nearby Rehab centre .He was suffering from poor respiratory functioning and swollen liver.He was a drug addict for few months i suppose.Well not to talk much about his poor health but it looked very devastating ... You just can't see one of your close friends crying out in pain and cutting his life.People take extreme steps to take extreme moments of life which are going to be their deadliest.Addiction is similar to common cold.You ...
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Going Organic to Be Healthy

Written by Charlie on October 3, 2007
One of the noticeable things that have been happening today is the fact that people have been more health-conscious. This includes the proper selection of food and resources such as organic food to which most organization producing them have used affordable search engine optimization practices like the ones by Los Angeles SEO as a means of drawing the crowd. Organic eating is the in-thing we have today. People have to eat wisely and be sure that their intakes are indeed healthy for the body. While people may not like the taste of pure organic food ...

Bangkok Pills Reduce Weight But…

Written by Charlie on February 24, 2007
In this time and age, the search has been on in determining a medical way to adhere towards proper weight loss methods without the use of actual exercise, especially for people who are not at all that comfortable with doing strenuous exercises and burn the excess fats in most cases.
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The issue of the Bangkok pills has been something notable since it burns the fat through destroying the appetite of people and renders them weak at times. This especially holds true for people who have low levels of being able to fight the after effects ...
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