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Category Archives: Health

NaPodPoMo: Walking Around Wal-Mart

04-Nov-07

Something clicked and it occured to me that the perimeter of Wal-Mart makes for good walking. It is relatively safe from traffic and a large area to walk around. You can do any shopping you need before or after your walk. In the evenings, it is well lighted. There is security. And there is plenty [...]

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Kids Make You Fat

02-Sep-07

When my wife and I were first married, we were skinny. Ok, so she got skinny after our daughter was born. Babies drink milk, so we did not have to cook for her. There was also baby food and baby snacks that we got for her. As for Mrs. Mata and me, we ate whenever [...]

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Doctors Are The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US, Causing 250,000 Deaths Every Year

23-May-07

Day 19: Shiny new stethoscope

Originally uploaded by Kateness.

clipped from www.chattanoogahealth.com

This information is a followup of the Institute of Medicine report which hit the papers in December of last year, but the data was hard to reference as it was not in peer-reviewed journal. Now it is published in JAMA which is the most widely circulated [...]

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Neglecting Your Body Accumulates Over Time

14-May-07

If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself. - Mickey Mantle
That sums up today’s message, Podcasters. Taking care of your health is something you do for the long-term benefit rather than immediate gratification. There are a few things that you need to sustain a good life [...]

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Do you really want to give up 1/3 of your life?

03-May-07

You can break up a day into three separate eight-hour shifts. We typically devote one shift to work, one shift to life, and one shift to sleep (assuming you sleep 8 hours a night). I was just reading Cranking Widgets’s Why I Sometimes Choose Living Over Sleeping. Brett Kelly has a good point in stating [...]

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Agreement on Daily Exercise

02-May-07

I read How to Make Exercise a Daily Habit over at Zen Habits earlier this week. Not too long ago, I wrote my own post about exercising daily; see Simple Exercise and Great Benefits. The main point of our posts differ, but there is some common ground when it comes to frequency. One should exercise [...]

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