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Weighing the Evidence on Exercise
Weighing the Evidence on Exercise – NYTimes.com. How exercise affects body weight is one of the more intriguing and vexing issues in physiology. Exercise burns calories, no one doubts that, and so it should, in theory, produce weight loss, a fact that has prompted countless people to undertake exercise programs to shed pounds. Without significantly…
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Saturdays in Suburbia
Some of you may remember that I was scheduled for the Bluemont Vineyard 5k today. Well – Scott had to go to NYC yesterday for business and will not be home until this afternoon – so I had to bow out of it. I was bummed until yesterday when I realized that Thursday’s Plumbline workout…
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Jamie Oliver Launches Online Campaign For Healthy Eating in Schools
Chef Jamie Oliver (of Naked Chef fame) has launched a cross-platform campaign called Jamie’s Food Revolution in an attempt to overhaul the way kids eat in America. Today is Food Revolution Friday, and Oliver is taking to the web in order to get folks to sign his petition to improve food in school cafeterias via…