Fitness Education

A captain’s chair is not found on a yacht, but rather is exercise equipment to work your abdominal muscles in a hanging leg raise. According to “Men’s Health,” hanging leg raises require strength and flexibility but are the gold standard for abdominal exercises. As you hang your legs down, you raise your knees to your chest. If performed correctly, using a captain’s chair at home allows you to benefit from one of the best abdominal exercises.

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I’m nearly speechlessNearlyIf the photo up above is genuine, and not an Onion style fake, I think the JDRF has taken inappropriate Big Food/Public Health partnerships to a new all time lowIf genuine, then the JDRF is comfy lending its name to the sale of 64oz of sugared sodaFor those who like numbers, the Mega Jug holds 800 calories and 56 teaspoons of sugar That’s over a full cup of sugar!But hey JDRF, who cares about sugared soda’s role in the development of obesity and type 2 diabetes? Look!

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The toning shoe has become a fitness must have and has consumers lining up to try on these unusual looking shoes. Skechers was one of the first to introduce the toning shoe a couple years ago, they called it Shape-Ups. Many other shoe companies have followed in the rocking-sole design footsteps and produced their own version. GreenBeanBuddy.com has recently uncovered the fact that the shoe industry is under fire about the promises that the toning shoe claims. They have published a story about a Doctor who took it upon himself to test the products promise to shape and sculpt you legs and buttocks. “Dr. Mercer,recently decided to test the Toning shoe, after running into a friend who worked at a local shoe store, who asked him if he knew if the product really worked. Read more…

A simpler and shorter course of antibiotic drugs could prevent tens of millions of people around the globe who have the bacteria that causes tuberculosis from getting full-blown TB, according to Johns Hopkins and South African scientists.

That may be particularly important to those who are HIV positive are at higher risk of catching the lung infections. The regiment could help 50,000 Americans and 22 million in sub-Saharan Africa.

The study, to be published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found the most streamlined combination worked. The does is 900 milligrams of the newer antibiotic rifapentine and the older isoniazid once a week for three months.

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