http://blakehagen.com Live a healthier lifestyle. Eat healthier. Get active. It's tough, but you have to fight for your fitness and health. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:07:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en  Follow Exercise is Medicine on Twitter.  Here's their vision: To make physical activity and exercise a standard part of a disease prevention and treatment medical paradigm in the United States. For physical activity to be considered by all health care providers as a vital sign in every patient visit, and that patients ... http://blakehagen.com/2010/03/follow-friday/ ["Dr. Oz's Fat-Blasting Smoothie!"] One of my favorite things to do lately in the grocery store checkout line is to read the headlines on all those magazines.  Yes, you know the ones... the alleged "health" magazines.  They're right next to the celebrity gossip magazines (sometimes they are the celebrity mags).  Found this ... http://blakehagen.com/2010/03/the-grocery-store-and-dr-oz/ Maybe you've seen this and maybe you haven't, but I wanted to pass this along.  Fed Up with Lunch: The School Lunch Project is a blog by a teacher who is eating school lunch everyday.  Read why she's doing it and some other FAQs. It's pretty interesting to see the food ... http://blakehagen.com/2010/03/fed-up-with-lunch/ [Image from here via @YoniFreedhoff]. We might want to go easy on the sugar-drinks.  Maybe help our kids avoid them too? http://blakehagen.com/2010/03/drinking-sugar/ "Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up." -- Chinese Proverb Happy Monday.  Have a great day and a great week.  http://blakehagen.com/2010/03/get-up/ I really thought spring was on it's way sooner rather than later.  We've had some beautiful days here the last few days and I've been able to run outside (comfortably) and even go on walks with my wife and daughter in the evenings.  Spring is here.... nope. Then it starts pounding ... http://blakehagen.com/2010/03/spring-has-not-sprung/ Found my daughter sleeping like this the other day.  Looks like she fell asleep while sitting up and then just bent over.  Pretty funny.  Don't forget that sleep is an important part of a healthy lifestyle.  The body needs rest.  "Sleep is no different from diet or exercise." -- Carol Ash, D.O., sleep ... http://blakehagen.com/2010/03/get-some-sleep/ Some excerpts from this article about how some schools in Canada have put in treadmills and stationary bikes in classrooms to help students focus: "If I feel antsy during the day, or feel like misbehaving, I ask if I can use the treadmill or the bike.  I have so much energy built ... http://blakehagen.com/2010/03/in-school-workouts-help-kids-focus/ I ran 5 miles today and it felt great.  That is all. http://blakehagen.com/2010/03/todays-post/ Can't wait to start swim/bike/run -ing again.  Been a bit chaotic around here lately with the move, and we only moved across town.  Weak excuses, I know.  Been lifting a lot of heavy things and been on my feet a lot, so feels like I have been doing something I ... http://blakehagen.com/2010/02/work-ethic/