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From this article Got Crocs? Be careful on the escalator:

“At rail stations and shopping malls around the world, reports are popping up of people, particularly young children, getting their toes caught in escalators. The one common theme seems to be the clunky soft-soled clogs known by the name of the most popular brand, Crocs.”

And this:

From this article Six out of 10 Britons would rather die than exercise:

Demanding exercise such as strength training or running offers the potential for more positive health benefits than pole dancing, but pole dancing does have a place. Strength training or running has to be sufficiently demanding to force the body to change. It will remain demanding if improvements are to be ongoing.

From this article, From this article, Guinness good for you - official:

“A pint of the black stuff a day may work as well as an aspirin to prevent heart clots that raise the risk of heart attacks.

Drinking lager does not yield the same benefits, experts from University of Wisconsin told a conference in the US. “

And this:

On August 27, 2005 I boarded up my house and my business, Ultimate Fitness, and then loaded up the car with three days worth of clothes and headed north. Two days later in New Orleans the 17th Street Canal broke. My home of four months situated three blocks from the canal was under water. My business, five blocks from where the waters stopped rising, suffered minimal damage.

Six weeks later I returned to New Orleans with no place to live, stuck with a mortgage payment, renovation payments, and working in a business that was showing a negative cash flow. I decided to try to keep the first business going and explore that option of opening a second business, Kelly Personal Training, in another city that did not flood. I spent months scouting out locations in various cities in the South and decided on Austin.

From this MSNBC article Excessive exercising may speed cardiac failure:

“In experiments with rats, researchers found that excessive exercise worsened high blood pressure and progression to heart failure in rats with high blood pressure.’

And this:

“The study raises the possibility that “uncontrolled and excessive exercise” may negatively affect the heart in people with high blood pressure, potentially speeding the onset of heart failure, according to Sarma and Schulze."

This blog is primarily concerned with health, fitness, diet, personal training, and human performance. Not unrelated to health is the environment where you live. That includes the economy which affects one’s quality of life.

From this article Pot Bellies Point to Heart Risk:

“For both men and women, the bigger the belly in relation to the hips -- otherwise called the waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) -- the greater the likelihood of arterial calcium in the heart.

From this article Diet foods could lead to obesity:

“Giving children low calorie food and diet drinks may actually increase their risk of becoming obese.