Living to 100: The 9 Wise Habits | Open Culture.

This is such a good video. Good lessons to learn from looking at other cultures and habits and people who live long lives.

Michelle Obama’s 2010 Focus: Childhood Obesity – US News and World Report.

Good for the First Lady. We need to tackle this issue now. Its repercussions are already showing.

If Your Kids Are Awake, They’re Probably Online – NYTimes.com.

Once again this illustrates what a different world we live in.  This amazes me:

Those ages 8 to 18 spend more than seven and a half hours a day with such devices, compared with less than six and a half hours five years ago, when the study was last conducted. And that does not count the hour and a half that youths spend texting, or the half-hour they talk on their cellphones.

And because so many of them are multitasking — say, surfing the Internet while listening to music — they pack on average nearly 11 hours of media content into that seven and a half hours.

5 Reasons Why You Can’t Lose Fat | StrongLifts.com.

This really puts it in words that you can understand and relate to, with good advice on how to really look at the reasons why you aren’t losing like you want to. I am all about honestly – this ain’t easy.