The Ramble: Anti-Smoking, Breast Feeding, Fit and Fat and Lasik Surgery
Checkout week 2 of The Ramble. A quick rundown of some of the past week’s interesting health and wellness stories, anti-smoking silliness, breast feeding on the rise, fit and fat and Lasik Surgery. In...
View ArticleThe Ramble: Chantix, Smoking, Sleep, Asthmatic Olympians and Dove Soap
The Ramble covers interesting stories from the past week, new federal smoking cessation guidelines featuring Chantix, how smoking bans in restaurants keep kids from the nasty habit, a study of...
View ArticleThe Ramble: Exercise and Cancer, ANTM Scam, Vitamin D and More
There’s a lot to cover including how exercise may protect women from breast cancer, how America’s Top Model may have been rigged and why you should relax and enjoy the eats and drinks this Memorial Day.
View ArticleThe Ramble: Green Asthmatics, Video Games for Health and Anti-Smoking Stuff
The green movement affects asthma medications, researchers are looking at how video games can improve people’s health and there are more reasons to disregard the half-measures in the fight against...
View ArticleThe Ramble: Food, Alli and Xenical, St. John's Wart and Snowboarding
Are you tired of being told what to eat? I know I am. The Ramble will cover many bases this week from the weight loss pills Alli and Xenical, the purported herbal remedy St. John’s Wart and the...
View ArticleThe Ramble: The Sex is Good For You Edition
Recently there’s been great news for all of you randy guys out there, in that we’ve seen research that indicates sex is good for you in a whole bunch of ways. These aren’t urban legends, or exercises...
View ArticleThe Ramble – Battlefield Acupuncture, The Biggest Loser, Muscle Power
Information contained in a paper from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Health Professions, Department of Physical Therapy published in the May 2007 edition of the National Strength and...
View ArticleRidiculous Exercises: The Shoulder Shrug
I spend a lot of time in open gyms and see a lot of ridiculous things, things I feel compelled to speak out about, and against. There is so much misinformation, and plain bad information circulating in...
View ArticleThe Ramble: More Things You Should Stop Doing in the Gym, Immediately
There is an epidemic sweeping the country these days. No, it’s not the obesity epidemic, or the drug abuse epidemic, or the Glee epidemic. The “Doing Stupid, Waste of Time Stuff in the Gym Epidemic,”is...
View ArticleAthletes Need to Stop Jogging on the Boardwalk
I just got back from vacation down at the beautiful New Jersey Shore. No, not the Jersey Shore you see on MTV, but the real New Jersey Shore. The only thing worse than the seeing Snookie in person was...
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