Health
Get Up and Move
Sitting at your desk all day long is bad for your health – and your pants size. Many of you don’t have the luxury of finding the time to participate in a long, drawn-out exercise routine. How the heck can you improve your health if you don’t have enough hours in the day to get [...]
iHealth Keeps Track of Your Blood Pressure
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Lockergnome’s Kelly Clay gets a demonstration of the iHealth blood pressure monitoring system and iHealth blood pressure cuff for iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad. iHealth works like a standard blood pressure cuff, measuring blood pressure from around your bicep, then charts [...]
San Francisco Bans Sugary Drinks
If you’re a person who is addicted to sugary soft drinks, I hope you don’t live in San Francisco. If you do, you may very well start a riot the next time you try to buy your favorite cola from a vending machine in the city limits. San Francisco’s mayor Gavin Newsom doesn’t feel you [...]
Leave Your Car at Home and Bike to Work Today
Today is National Bike to Work Day, capping off an entire week of pushing Amercians to be healthier while saving the environment from harmful gasses AND helping cut down on fuel consumption. Sounds like a pretty tall order, doesn’t it? It’s not such a stretch, though. Riding a bike for only thirty minutes per day [...]
Love is in the Air for Apple Fans
If you are an Apple fan, nothing would be worse than hooking up with the “perfect” person – only to discover that they are a Windows user. That is likely the biggest deal-breaker of all. Thanks to new service Cupidtino, you’ll never have to worry about this again. The site promises to bring Apple fan-boys [...]
How to Stay Healthy with the iPad
These days, the population is more health-conscious than ever before. Not only do we take care of ourselves better, we also take control of our healthcare. We question our providers. We research our fingers to the bone so that we understand what they’re telling us. We research to help find possible answers and treatments to [...]
Hard-Core Climbing with the Great Indoorsman
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed There’s nothing like a good hike to get your blood pumping. Were you aware of the health benefits of doing something like this? You can burn calories, increase muscle tone, improve your circulation – and live longer! I enjoy quite a [...]
Top Ten Resolutions for 2009
Why do people make resolutions for the new year? Many use it as a catalyst for accomplishing their goals. Many take the opportunity to try something new and improve their lives. I’ve put together a list of some of the most common resolutions people make. If you haven’t made your resolution list yet, you may [...]
Top Physician Recommended Health Sites on the Web
This is Patricia L. Hale’s (MD, PhD) submission for the HP Magic Giveaway. Feel free to leave comments for this article as you see fit – your feedback is certainly welcomed! If you’d like to submit your own how-to, what-is, or top-five list, you can send it to me. Views and opinions of this writer [...]
Luke Skywalker’s Prosthetic Arm
Granted, I haven’t felt like a true Star Wars fan since the prequels concluded… but this is an interesting point of inspiration. I usually only hear how Star Trek has influenced real-world science and technology. Shawn McClendon just sent me these three links: Dean Kamen’s Artificial Arm Robotic Prosthesis Dean Kamen’s Arm Reaches Clinical Trials [...]
Computer Health
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed With so many of us spending hours on end at our computers these days, it’s no wonder we have body pains and health issues. Here are some excellent tips to help you stay in better “computer health”. Beware the strain of [...]
Men Vitamins for Manly Males
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Ponzi just brought in this little pill organizer and plopped it on my desk. You know the kind, there’s seven little compartments marked with the days of the week. I opened it, and thought the woman was trying to kill me [...]
Marc Orchant had a Heart Attack
Reposted with permission from blognation.us (which seems to be down at the moment, likely due to the amount of traffic flooding into the site): At some time between 7:30 and 8:10 AM on Sunday Morning December 2nd, 2007, Marc Orchant, my fellow author on this blog, as well as one of my closest friends sustained [...]
Office Laser Printers can be Unhealthy for You
Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes http://live.pirillo.com/ – Wirelesspacket shared with us some research he has come across, regarding Laser printers possibly causing health problems. Four of my friends joined me for this discussion: Kat, SC_Thor, Wirelesspacket, and last but certainly not least… Datalore. According to several studies, Laser [...]
Trust Nobody, Trust Everybody
Everybody knows that cigarettes are safe! In fact, the health industry has come out in support of cigarettes several times over. Why would doctors (themselves) smoke if they were bad for you? The conspiracy theory has been debunked already, and you are doing the world a disservice by perpetuating the hoax that cigarettes aren’t good [...]
