Archive for November, 2008
How do You Teach Kids to be Healthy?
Posted on November 12, 2008 - Filed Under Prevention, healthy lifestyle | View Comments
Research has shown that overweight/obese children as young as 10 can have the same blockage of arteries as 45-year-olds. What’s the cause? The same thing that usually causes blockage in adults –an unhealthy lifestyle.
“The time has come to seriously deal with the issue of childhood obesity and physical inactivity on a governmental and parental level.”
Source [...]
Get Faster. Go Longer.
Posted on November 11, 2008 - Filed Under Exercise, Triathlon, healthy lifestyle | View Comments
59 minutes, 59 seconds. 2 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds. Those times may not mean anything to anyone else, but to me, they do. Those are my goal times for sprint and olympic-distance triathlons for next year.
A little ambitious? I hope so. I’m aiming high. My best time for a sprint tri is 1 hour [...]
The Incredible Edible Egg
Posted on November 10, 2008 - Filed Under Nutrition | View Comments
I saw this commercial on TV for eggs and thought it was pretty good. I like triathlons and I like eggs, so this was perfect (go here if you can’t see the video):
Read more about my thoughts on eggs in The Power of Eggs.
Good Stuff I Read This Week
Posted on November 7, 2008 - Filed Under Shout Outs | View Comments
I read a lot of great posts around the web this week and here are some of my favorites:
Health habits asks Does Your Diet Make Your Skin Look OLD?
James Hubbard’s My Family Doctor Magazine gives us the scoop on Autism and how it relates to rainy areas.
A Life Less Sweet informs us of another Surprising [...]
Good Food
Posted on November 6, 2008 - Filed Under Nutrition, Vegetables, healthy lifestyle | View Comments
Wanted to share my dinner last night. I made grilled lemon chicken, sweet potatoes, and whole wheat pasta with pesto sauce and broccoli. It was good. Well worth the short time spent making it. Wife loved it too.
Change YOU Can Believe In
Posted on November 5, 2008 - Filed Under Behavior Change, healthy lifestyle | View Comments
Change. That’s a word we’ve all heard thrown around lately. We (America) elected who we thought would be the best choice to lead our great country and we also were able to cast our votes for our local leaders.
Good. We did our part for our country and we will continue to do so. But what [...]
Kids Learn Good Nutrition From Parents
Posted on November 4, 2008 - Filed Under Nutrition | View Comments
A study published in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine found that children as young as 2-years-old mimic their parents’ food choices.
Some excerpts from a news article describing the study:
“The data suggest that children begin to assimilate and mimic their parents’ food choices at a very young age, even before they are able to fully [...]
Will You Live to 100?
Posted on November 3, 2008 - Filed Under Prevention, healthy lifestyle | View Comments
I was cruising around on CNN.com this morning and I found a video about a study that shows how running can help you live longer and healthier. Here it is:
(Can’t see video? Go here).
I think this is an interesting study that has good news: Exercise is good for us.
One thing that caught my attention from [...]
