NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Hula Hoops, those baby boomer toys that fired a worldwide craze in 1950s, have come back as must-have fitness tools to strengthen the core and battle the love handle.
The hoop is an ancient toy, fashioned from dried grape vines in ancient Egypt and depicted on vases in 5th century Athens.
But today’s hoops are bigger, heavier, gaudier and more portable. And on the hips of 21st century practitioners, “hooping” has morphed Read the rest of this entry »
NASHVILLE — Although the number of uninsured and the cost of coverage have ballooned under his watch, President Bush leaves office with a health care legacy in bricks and mortar: he has doubled federal financing for community health centers, enabling the creation or expansion of 1,297 clinics in medically underserved areas.
For those in inner-city neighborhoods and isolated rural areas, including Indian reservations, the clinics are often the Read the rest of this entry »
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THE World Championships door remains, only just, open for shuttlers not in the BA of Malaysia’s (BAM) stable.
All the players have to do, should their rankings be higher than that of those from BAM at the end of the qualifying period in April, is pass a fitness test.
Several former national singles and doubles players, now playing under the banner of clubs and sponsors, are in a position to qualify while the rankings of BAM’s back-up shuttlers Read the rest of this entry »
The best way to achieve your fitness goals is to focus on making small
changes, which goes against the usual January rush to “drop a dress size in
a month”. Take just three things that you know you need to change and make
these your goals for this week: drink more water; go to an exercise class;
and get off the bus a stop early. Add three more a week and in a month you
will have changed 12 things that would have been too intense had you Read the rest of this entry »
MADISON (MedStar) — A lot of people choose weight loss for their New Year's resolution.
In this Medical Minute, we offer up the top fitness picks for 2009.
The future of fitness is fusion.
This laid back class fuses yoga and pilates to make yoga-lates.
Trainer Anne Wilkinson said, ”fusion takes a little bit of cardio, a little bit of resistance training, or like in a yoga-lates, a little bit of mind body connection with Read the rest of this entry »
Dr. Daines, don’t give up the day job.
One of the constant wonders of our times is how really bright people like our state health commissioner can come up with remarkably dumb ideas like trying to sell to the masses a wildly unpopular fat tax on soft drinks through a simplistic YouTube presentation.
Dr. Richard Daines says the idea came to him at 5 a.m. To which I can only say no more pepperoni pizzas after midnight for you, doctor. If you haven’t Read the rest of this entry »
will lose 12 percent of its staff through a combination of layoffs, attrition and retirements. CHA will close six community health centers and will stop admitting patients overnight to
, although emergency services there will remain available. Officials there said the magnitude of current and future financing challenges, coupled with the soured economy have put their whole system in jeopardy, forcing the cuts.
“While extremely challenging Read the rest of this entry »
Early Wednesday evening, the House of Representatives passed
. But while the package that passed on a 244-188 near-party-line vote (and didn’t garner a single Republican vote) included a bevy of tax cuts and spending programs, one particular item that has been the subject of much debate this week was notably missing.
A relatively small provision to expand state access to family planning services under Medicaid was seized on late last week by Read the rest of this entry »
that have been recalled in the nationwide salmonella outbreak, which has made at least 600 people ill and is tied to nine deaths, the Associated Press reports. With the poor economy and millions of families depending on food pantries for help, it’s a particularly bad time to have to toss thousands of pounds of food. The Houston Food Bank, for example, has already thrown out 3,000 recalled peanut products, and the Cleveland Food Clinic has discarded Read the rest of this entry »