I read recently that laughing heartily for 15 minutes can burn as many as 40 calories. Over the course of a year daily laughter can add up to the loss of four pounds for the average person. So I guess it is true - you can laugh your ass off. I wasn't aware that laughter [...]
Tag: health
Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed…
I am not sure when sleep became a guilty pleasure for folks, but it seems to have become just that. Somewhere along the line I think we have forgotten as a society of overworked, overachieving people that sleep is not a luxury for our brains and bodies. Our brains and bodies are purposeful in their use of sleep - they [...]
How healthy is Santa?
WebMD -one of my favorite sites for health and medical information - is drilling down to the really important discussions of the holiday. They pose a critical question for our times on their site that I want to share with you who believe healthy living is the way to go. They ask, "How healthy is Santa?" [...]
Trust, but verify…
I understand and appreciate the notion that we should not treat doctors as demigods. They are, after all, just human beings - well-educated and trained human beings in medical science, but human beings nonetheless. Human beings make mistakes; hence, sometimes doctors make mistakes. That is the premise behind second opinions. I am not a medical doctor, nor [...]
You snooze…you win?
You may have heard it said that if you snooze, you lose, but not so according to Dr. Michael Breus. Dr. Breus is one of WebMD's bloggers and in a recent blog he made the case that getting the right amount of sleep can help keep your brain from aging prematurely. OMG! Now, in addition to [...]
Sleeping beauty…
I am feeling pretty good this morning having had the best night sleep I have had in two weeks. Between travel, late night thunderstorms (which reduce the big orange dog - Cooper - to a barking, whimpering mess), late nights with my Jersey boy and my neighbors' month-long fireworks celebration - sleep has not been easy [...]
P90X – what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger!
Satan lives...and he lives in the form of Tony Horton and his P90X workout series. My brother gave me the P90X set when I visited him in California at the end of July in support of my Best Body Ever goal. I let the DVDs sit for quite awhile and then I watched one here [...]
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