Daily Loaf

I’m not sure why I didn’t object when my husband boldly posted a training schedule on our refrigerator and announced that we were going to do a half-marathon.  I was in the midst of my unemployment stint and deeply distressed.  Either he believed that a goal would alleviate some of my misery or he was not-so-subtly recommending that I drop a few pounds.  Regardless of his motivation, I agreed, and the next Monday we drove down to Bayshore to begin our training. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian manufactured performance enhancement diet supplement Hydroxycut, used for weight loss and body building, has been pulled from the market in a voluntary recall at the request of the US Food and Drug Administration.

This is technically not a drug and is advertised as a “Diet Supplement”. The distress to the liver caused by this supplement has caused 23 reports of liver problems including the death due to liver failure a 17 year old boy. In at least one case a person survived their trouble by receiving a liver transplant. Read the rest of this entry »

Did you know the coral reefs are being suffocated by tourists’ sunscreen? Going to the tanning bed sets up a controlled environment so you can regulate your light absorption and then have a base tan that will help you avoid sunburn and use less sunscreen, therefore preserving the coral reefs and other oceanic life affected by multitudes of tourist sunscreen!

Raydiance Tanning and Spa (and Wellness Gardens and Tea house) offers a multitude of services to keep your lifestyle “green”, healthy and inexpensive. In light of our new proposals for a universal health care system as well as the one already in place it has become all too obvious we need new ways to stay healthy that integrate into our everyday life, because the health care is way too expensive and only used in dire need. There is now a resource to end this cycle of frustration, and it located so conveniently there is no excuse to make a step to integrating preventive health care into your world.

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People say video games are bad for you, but those people are jerks, because games are in fact awesome for you. I think. Maybe. Well, some of the time anyway. Edge had this thought-provoking rundown of 15 benefits from gaming including sharper vision, better imagination and reasoning skills, and recovery from injuries.

To be honest, I think they probably stretched a little to put some of these on the list. But one advantage I’ve noticed, one you don’t hear people talk about: the benefits of the distraction factor when it comes to avoiding other, even worse habits, like smoking or overeating. I’ve found that, contrary to stereotypes, there’s no better way to stop me from snacking between meals than getting engrossed in a good game for a few hours. If the game’s good, it’s easy to ignore the munchies. There’s some interesting science to back this up, as a study of hardcore online gamers recently showed that the BMI of those who play a lot of games is actually lower than the average person. Read the rest of this entry »