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High blood pressure is huge in America. Analysts at HHS’ Agency for Heathcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ, reviewed the latest available numbers.
Or as a specialist colleague put it, 50% of 50 year-olds, 60% of 60 y.o.s, and 70% of 70 y.o.s will have high BP. Great betting odds :(
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New York Times "Phys Ed" columnist Gretchen Reynolds has some simple advice for staying healthy: Stand up. Move around.
Don't underestimate seemingly "small" steps. With this base for your brain and mind, the sky's the limit. 
The fitbit might be yet another trendy fitness gadget, but it's one that has actually helped to get me out of the house more and log more steps in my daily life.
Automating the positive feedback, baby. 
If this iOS app is even half of what it promises, oh, man: run with your earbuds in, street, beach, treadmill, wherever, away from flesh-eating zombies. Gather "supplies," "weapons," etc. If it gives you a purpose and changeups...genius! 
Short, intense bursts of exercise, followed by brief periods of rest, produced significant benefits for the heart and overall health.
Not how much, but how little exercise can net you impressive physiologic results. This videos shows several iron club moves. The clubs are a great way to enhance your cardiovascular endurance, your core strength, and overall body coordinat...
If you have access such a courtyard, you have *got* to swing a clubbell in it. 
Tuna and Avocado Wraps As a rule, I always have cans of tuna in the pantry and limes, ripe avocados, and jalapenos in the fridge. With these items at my fingertips, I can whip up a couple of... 
We get a lot of questions from people concerned about wrist pain when getting started with handstands and other gymnastic-type movements.
From the premier CST folk over at Gold Medal Bodies: wrist pain prevention, for you gymnastics types. 
MovNat...may be the modern incarnation of The Hebert 10. 
How can Asian countries eat so much rice and stay so thin? In this post, we examine the Asian Paradox and try to explain it once and for all. 
The Big Reveal! I know I’ve been a tad sadistic for the past few months, dropping hints about a mysterious “side project” and taunting you with new dishes while withholding the recipes. I’ve been a... 
This is how you do it, people: track it, tweak it, nail it. 
Mashable interviews FitBit CEO James Park about how digital devices can help us live healthier lives.
Courtesy of Mashable, a CES snapshot of current and future directions in personal health, aka quantified self, aka self-monitoring, as seen by FitBit's CEO.
FitBit, iHealth, and Withings all now make a digital scale that can upload weights and bodyfat % to the Internet and social media sites -- a very powerful motivating tool -- and FitBit, BodyMedia, and Nike now make personal devices to track activity and exertion with similar uploading capacity.
The deciding factor for the winner(s) in this space may be the utility of the smartphone or web interface, the reliability of the product (Jawbone stumbled here), or the basic slickness of the marketing campaign (Nike).
Any way this plays out, we as consumers should benefit.
High blood pressure is huge in America. Analysts at HHS’ Agency for Heathcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ, reviewed the latest available numbers.
Or as a specialist colleague put it, 50% of 50 year-olds, 60% of 60 y.o.s, and 70% of 70 y.o.s will have high BP. Great betting odds :( |
EWG’s 2011 Shoppers Guide helps you make informed choices about pesticides in your produce. Check our “Dirty Dozen” and the “Clean 15” to shop smarter. 
The caffeine-free, fully cleansed, take-your-nap, buff-as-hell guide to a whole new you.
Dietary cleanses: try one and see? Or nonsense? (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/15/146927835/can-a-diet-clean-out-toxins-in-the-body) In his book The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards, New York Times science writer and long-time yoga practitioner William Broad investigates popular health claims about yoga--that it boosts metabolism, for example--and finds that scientific...
Like anything else, even magic, you need to be careful. 
Another (Simpler) Version of Cauliflower Rice Here’s my second attempt at making cauliflower rice. My first attempt was a little too involved, but this time I adapted this recipe from Elana’s Pantry....
A must-have recipe for starchless, Paleo people. Courtesy of @nomnompaleo! 
DENIAL, famously, is good for the soul. It is also good for the body. Scientists have known for decades that animals fed near-starvation diet in laboratories see dramatic boosts in their lifespans.
Already doing intermittent fasting? This suggests what some folks have been touting: fasting ain't friendly to cancer cells. Mainstream awareness coming through! 
New software for the Sleeptracker Elite wristwatch helps users track sleep data over time, including nightly sleep scores based on light sleep stages, minutes of interrupted sleep, and more. 
Pressure Cooker Grass Fed Beef Back Ribs Grass fed beef back ribs are normally cooked low and slow for many hours to break down the collagen in the tough meat. What if I told you you could get the... 
Paleo Eats: 2/4/12 I’m pooped after a long day of cooking and eating. But it’s a good tired because being with friends that make me laugh until I have a coughing fit is what life’s all about. Before...
More drool-worthy Paleo cookery from Nom Nom Paleo, including links to a pressure cooker speedy broth, and slow cooker beef barbacoa. Ballpark figures on Green Pasture fermented cod liver oil. Impressive. 
The giveaway is closed, but this link-packed post by CaveGirlEats (Liz Wolfe, NTP) hits every critical nutritional hot button: Paleo/Primal real food focus + starch nixing, saturated fats, fermented and traditional just-eat-it foods...and vitamins D, A, and K2. 
Engineers at Brown say the chip can also detect other substances in tandem, including anthrax. Read this blog post by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore on Crave.
Nanotechnology may make glucose monitoring as easy as spit.
This kind of tech will make bodywork more customizable to your individual situation. You think that a measly 6 hrs of sleep is jacking up your cortisol levels -- and that 15 minutes of breathing meditation will neutralize that? *Test it and see for yourself* -- and adjust your own variables (nutrition, sleep, movement, supplementation, recovery) accordingly.
If you can sequence your own genome for $4k, how far away is measuring your own stress hormones, cholesterol numbers, and inflammatory markers? Glucose is just the start. |
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