Almost. But we’ll get to that in a sec. Last night, CNN aired Escape Fire, a documentary that uncovers what’s wrong with America’s health care. Actually, it reveals that we don’t have health care—we have disease care. Ours is really only a system of disease management. This issue was the impetus for Fit minus Fiction [read on, fitties...]
Once upon a time, there was an oil molecule and a water molecule. Try as they might, they couldn’t mix. So they kept to themselves. The End. Oh, you’ve heard this one before? Well, that’s where our tale of cholesterol begins. Humans are 75% water. Blood, our method of transporting stuff throughout the body, is [read on, fitties...]
Besides the fact that this is the first new post in an eon, yes, there’s something new happening. Got some plans brewing for the future, and the blog is a part of them. So we’re transitioning away from our old name, Fit minus Fiction, and smoothly sashaying into our new one: PhD Fitness. Same people. [read on, fitties...]
*blink blink* Wha? Where am I? Something happened today. A person in the media wrote a well-researched, factual, objective article about exercise. And not just any exercise. The grand-daddy of over-hyped exercise: yoga. GOD BLESS YOU, SIR (ma’am). God bless you. < sobs > Check it out here. Jesus, I’m gonna have to add a [read on, fitties...]
Saw this. Got annoyed. Had to blog. “10 Fitness Facts that Everyone Gets Wrong,” by AskMen.com. (The PhD’s reaction to some of the stuff in this article: “What the f@%k….?”) The first hint that something was amiss: the author has an MBA and is a Strength and Conditioning specialist. That means two things. 1) If [read on, fitties...]
“The Fat Trap” is an article from the New York Times that’s been making the buzz-rounds over the past week. Whew. It was hard to get through. It took three attempts to read it. Not because it was 8 internet pages long. Not because there were extra-hard werds. Because it started off with a big [read on, fitties...]
On the off-chance you don’t keep up with the super-exciting world of insurance, here’s the latest: Medicare has decided it will start covering weight loss programs that are run by physicians. What does this mean for the 100% of people reading this who are not on Medicare and generally do not give a crap? Eventually, [read on, fitties...]
They’re not quite the same as the shoes we ripped on, but we’re comfortable basking in the justice of it, anyway. Just in case you missed it, Reebok gets in trouble for telling people that wearing these shoes will make them all fit and tight and shit. Like, $25 million trouble. Keep the product busts [read on, fitties...]
So you may have noticed we suck recently. It’s true. It wasn’t intentional (nor is it permanent), and we’ll be back to posting as soon as we can. So don’t go believing in fiction while we’re gone, or nothin’. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on FacebookShare on Posterousshare via RedditShare with StumblersShare on technoratiTumblr itTweet [read on, fitties...]
Okay. Cheesy. But anyway: “The Human Do.ing” starts today. Scott, a Minnesota resident and brave soul, will live inside a glass apartment at the Mall of America for 30 days as part of a marketing campaign for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota. The “Do” campaign is something that’s been going on here in [read on, fitties...]