Health and Lifestyle, by Bob

Another Obese Diabetics Way Out?

2006-09-11T01:58:00.000+08:00

Obesity.. Diabetes.. Day in day out we face similar health problems, but this is just the way our body works. Do you think it's takes hard work to keep your health? Well, can be yes or no. If you enjoy your activities, working out or healthy eating, you won't feel the extra pressures doing that.

Take the following Reuters article on some alternative activities to keep those health problems at bay..

Tai Chi or calisthenics good for obese diabetics (Reuters)

Reuters - Research suggests that impaired mobility and balance among obese older adults with type 2 diabetes may be related to their low muscle power, which results from their inability to quickly contract their muscles.

Tea 'healthier' drink than water

2006-08-28T06:47:00.000+08:00

Are you not a tea drinker? The tradition of tea drinking is almost as old as human history, from the Far East to Mid East to.. wait, there's no Short East is there? But you know what I mean.. it's everywhere. However tea drinking has been considered somewhat 'less classy' compare to its sibling coffee drinking. It's about to change? Look at the facts below:

Nearly half the U.S. population drinks tea in some form; iced tea accounts for 85 percent of consumption. Tea sales are booming -- from $1.8 billion in 1990 to more than $6 billion in 2005, according to the Tea Association of the USA. Even Starbucks offers tea-based frappuccinos.

The Daily News Online

Drinking three or more cups of tea a day is as good for you as drinking plenty of water and may even have extra health benefits, say researchers.The work in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition dispels the common belief that tea dehydrates.Tea not only rehydrates as well as water does, but it can also protect against heart disease and some cancers, UK nutritionists found.

Experts believe flavonoids are the key ingredient in tea that promote health.

BBC NEWS | Health | Tea 'healthier' drink than water

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More innovative body maintenance?

2006-08-21T07:39:00.000+08:00

There are obviously various ways and means to upkeep your health, but the new device that uses a new way of removing fat I think would be some kind of hot!

New Device Gives Alternative To Liposuction
(CBS4) DENVER A local engineer created new liposuction technology that's revolutionizing cosmetic surgery.

LipoSelection is a new way of removing fat using sound waves.

Bill Comino, an engineer at Sound Surgical Technologies in Louisville, designed and manufactured the "VASER" device which uses ultrasonic energy to target only fatty tissue.

"Ultrasonic technology has a tissue selectivity aspect to it, meaning that it will aggressively target some tissue and not others," Comino said. "So what we want to do is target the fatty cells but not other tissue in the body."

cbs4denver.com - New Device Gives Alternative To Liposuction

Business & Finance, by Bob: To hold or not to hold, that is the question

2006-08-18T21:27:00.000+08:00

A cool blog entry that exposes our inner insecurity about our investment portfolio..

Business & Finance, by Bob: To hold or not to hold, that is the question

Health Quotes

2006-07-31T01:37:00.000+08:00

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
Adams, Franklin P

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
Baker, Richard

There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy it.
Billings, Josh