| Small Goals Lead To Big Fitness Gains
Many people want to make changes in their bodies or fitness levels. They want to lose 15 pounds by spring, run a 5K or lower their blood pressure.
Those can be reachable challenges, but the key to getting there, experts say, is having smaller goals in between to ensure success from point A to point B.
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Station Gives Away Valentine's Divorce
A Charleston radio station is observing Valentine's Day with a reminder that Cupid sometimes misses his mark. WKLC-FM, better known as Rock 105, is giving away a free divorce. Valentine's Day isn't all hearts and flowers, said WKLC Program Director Jay Nunley. There is a darker side, he said, "where maybe you despise your spouse and resent the entire day." .
American Meat Institute Calls WCRF Panel Recommendations on Meat ...
Institute Says Alarmist Messages Reflect Group's Anti-Meat Bias, Stand in Sharp Contrast to U.S. Dietary Guidelines and Plain Common Sense WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Meat Institute (AMI) today said that World Cancer Research Fund's (WCRF) recommendations to limit red and processed meat intake to extremely low levels reflect WCRF's well-known anti-meat bias and should be met with skepticism because they oversimplify the complex issue of cancer, are not supported by the data and defy common sense. "WCRF's conclusions are extreme, unfounded and out of step with dietary guidelines," said AMI Foundation Vice President of Scientific Affairs Randy Huffman, Ph.D. "Headlines associated with this report may give consumers another case of nutrition whiplash.
The High Price of Precious Metals
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Comment: Salutary lessons we're bound to forget
Commercial property had enjoyed a stellar run over more than a decade, but as 2007 approached many analysts, including property fund managers, were forecasting a tough year ahead because high demand for such property had sent prices soaring and yields plunging. With huge inflows of money being taken, fund managers were finding it harder to unearth value. More than £1bn was invested in property funds in the first three months of the year as they proved more popular than any other type of fund. Alas, investors will be starting 2008 more than 10 per cent down - in some cases 30 per cent. Now investment groups are nervous that investors will cause a run on their funds, which could bring about even greater problems. If there is a run, the managers should take a long, hard look at their actions.
Close knit: Weekly gatherings tie knitters together
A group of knitters, calling themselves "Stitch N Bitch," meet for a Wednesday night gathering at the Good Food Store Cafe. The group welcomes knitters of all skill levels. "(It's) people who get together and stitch and talk about fun things," says Shelli Martineau.
Watch an audio slideshow of one of their meetings here. .
Chris Satullo: Religious Right gives way to a new prophet
Jim Wallis is a prophet rapidly gaining honor in his own land. His new book, The Great Awakening, just hit the New York Times best-seller list. Jon Stewart fawns over him. On his book tour, Wallis speaks to large, rapt audiences, as he did last week at the Episcopal Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in Chestnut Hill. Wallis, a founder of the Sojourners revival movement, seeks to be a prophet in the biblical sense - a man driven to proclaim the hard truths that God has branded on his heart to a skeptical people in a stubborn time. He's also not doing a bad job as a prophet in the popular sense - a guy who predicts what's going to happen. In his book Faith Works, published in 2001, Wallis argued that religious faith was not merely a private matter, but also an incomparable basis for social action - and predicted that more people of faith would enter the public square.
Latest fitness Rx for men is a yawn
Today we present: Masculine Medical News For Men. Our first item concerns what could be the most significant medical discovery for men since the invention of the electric nose-hair trimmer. According to an Associated Press article sent in by alert reader Shirley Damiano, researchers at the University of Chicago have discovered that - and here, to indicate the importance of this breakthrough, we will activate our keyboard's "Caps Lock" feature - MEN NEED SLEEP. The reason for this is hormones, which are chemicals that our bodies produce so they can take control away from our brains. For example, men produce a hormone that compels them to watch instant replays on TV. If a man is watching a football game, a moose could walk into the room wearing a tutu, and the man will not notice, because his hormones are forcing him to watch, possibly for the sixth time, a football player fall down in slow motion.
Complimentary Nourishment For Qualified Beneficiaries
The ‘Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program,' also known as ‘Special Supplementary Nutrition for Women, Infants, and Children,' aims to assist distressed families experiencing marked malnutrition. The program helps people who don't have enough money to acquire healthy foods, to receive information about good nutrition, and even be referred to social services. The Congress was able to cover nutritional drinks, fundamental nutriments, infantry diets, and some others falling within the same category by banking $5.204 billion in 2006. .
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