Thursday, February 2, 2012

Top 4 Health Menaces of the Year


Most guys treat doctors as handymen for health. When their chimneys feel stuffed, they call an ear, nose, and throat guy. When their electrical circuits are misfiring, they contact a cardiologist. When their plumbing is clogged, they dial up a urologist.

How Fit Are You? 3 Simple Tests to Find Out

Ask 10 experts for their definition of fitness, and you’ll hear 10 different answers. That’s because how you define the word depends on the type of performance you expect. Some athletes need to develop a particular type of fitness over all others—powerlifters at one extreme, marathoners at another—but most of us are at our best when we achieve balanced fitness. In other words, we’re good at everything a healthy, active man needs to be able to do.

20 Hisrorical Oddities You probably Don't Know

I love these little lists of oddities and was thrilled when this one was sent in to me. I have to confess that I didn’t know most of the things on this list. The ones that seem the strangest or most unlikely to me, I verified and found they are, indeed, true! So, onwards, let’s learn some odd facts we didn’t already know.
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