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September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. If you have kids, they’re watching you to learn the right way to eat and be active. Give them a good model! The Let’s Move site contains information about healthy eating and exercise, including tips for having a more active family life. The NIH also offers a site…
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Do You Have a Friend Like This? You may have a well-meaning friend who is excited to involve you in their activities. Jen Sinkler posted the above exchange in a blog entry, “If you don’t like it, don’t do it.” It’s nice to be included, and if the answer is, “OK! Let me know if…
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The Ginny Jump Jacket and Sports Shorts will bring out the athlete in you This Virginia Slims ad came in the middle period of tobacco ad regulation — restrictions were just coming into place, including placement of the Surgeon General Warning, but subject matter was still pretty … well, misleading. Still, it had come a…
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There’s Lots of Bad Information Out There This image shows a note sent home from a daycare program to explain that the child’s home-made lunch was insufficient, and reminding the parent that there is a charge whenever the school supplements an insufficient home lunch. There’s just a couple of problems: the lunch was sufficient, and…
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Thinking About Change The fitness industry is full of people who boil “it” down to “one thing.” It’s “all about motivation.” “You either Do It, or you Don’t.” “If it’s important, you’ll find a way.” But if there’s one thing for sure, it’s never just one thing. The transtheoretical model (TTM) was developed in the…
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Are athletic humans getting superhuman? Not exactly, but we’re seeing more specialization — in essence, a flowering of diversity. Today’s champion athletes are marvelous, and we are seeing better performance (with more people training, and advances in training techniques), but technology is helping them, too. Hear more about it in David Epstein’s TED talk. (Source:…
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Yesterday I posted about an online toy that lets you estimate the calorie burns for different activities by entering your weight and the duration of the activity. It’s not great for getting specific numbers, but it helps to show the different levels of effort for different activities. Gina Kolata, in a 2007 article called Putting…
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Here is a fun toy — a calculator of estimated calorie burns for hundreds of activities from Primus Partners, a logistics company. This is part of Fitness Partner, a set of pages with general health information and calculators, described as a “labor of love.” 🙂 True calorie expenditures depend on many things — including your…