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5 Common Injuries of 4 Aging Athletes

Hey you aging athletes! The key to sustained physical awesomeness is exercising smarter. Being injury free is the key! Here are some pointers and a few common injuries to avoid.

Festive, Magical Santa Barbara

Here is a boatload of pictures of magical Santa Barbara for your viewing pleasure.

Tim Ferriss Underwhelms Barbara Walters With His “Four Hour Body”

Barbara Walters gives Tim Ferriss some combination of a cold shoulder and dismissive comments in this video as he attempts to summarize his book, The Four Hour Body.

Ray Kurzweil’s 100+ Pills per Day Age Defying Fight

Here’s a quick video interview with futurist, author, inventor and overall brainiac, Ray Kurzweil about what he does, to (hopefully) live a much longer life. Watch the video.

Was Abe Lincoln Prescient?

Abe Lincoln: “In see in the near future… Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow…

Happy Independence Day in Sausalito

The tradition continues. Another zany 4th of July Parade in the little hamlet just north of San Francisco. That would be Sausalito, my home since college, which I finished sometime in the last century. Check out the pics.

The Supersizers: “The Men Who Made Us Fat”, Episode 2 of 3

This is the Episode that all parents need to watch, for although supersizing has made us dangerously overweight, the new generation may be the first with a lower life expectancy than their parents. Consumption taxes may be on the way, but – surprise – the food industry is fighting back.

Sugar Tsunami: “The Men Who Made Us Fat”, Episode 1 of 3

Episode 1 (of 4) is a thorough, revealing BBC examination of what’s making people fat in the industries world. The focus here is sugar and it’s proxies. It’s a battle between lobbyists and everyone else

To Destroy is Simple. To Create, Not.

A story of wind and wasp.

How Many Meals Per Day Do You Think Is Optimum?

There’s a controversy swirling about. How many meals eaten per day is optimum for health? The traditional three full squares, or five, or six? Turns out, it depends on you. Three docs and health Twitterers weigh in.

Once in Two Lifetimes: Venus Transits the Sun

FEW WERE able to look up and see Venus orbit between the earth and the sun yesterday, but in the video above you can. Worth watching as this happens about once in two lifetimes.

At Home in the Woods or Bay

My pen has been silenced by a longer than anticipated working trip to the family Washington state homestead in the woods. Am reminded of Robert Frost’s “Reluctance”: “Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of view And looked at the world, and descended…”

The Weight of the Nation is Crushing America

The HBO documentary, “The Weight of the Nation” is a clarion call for changing our eating habits and the government’s food and farm policies and subsidies. If not, we will all soon have a problem, not just the 2/3rds of us that are overweight or obese, as well as 1/3 of children.

Just “Exactly” How Fat Are You Anyway?

What would you do to find out what percent of your body is fat? Archimedes came up with a pretty infallible test. Most of the rest are proxies, pretenders at best. In this post, I examine how worthless the BMI measure is for many, and what the military has to say on the matter. Check out the equations, BMI widget and charts.

Happy Birthday to the “Godmother of the Wellness Movement” — You Are Marvelous at 90! (Watch)

All her life, Deborah Szekely, the “Godmother of the Wellness” has been a thriving example of wellness. Now 90, she still works tirelessly to illuminate the harmful actions of agri-business and Big Pharma, and the government’s support of programs that have fueled the country’s obesity epidemic.

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