As consumed as I am with blending exercise into my daily life, I didn’t think of this. But it doesn’t surprise me.
Aimed at “fitness fans with a sense of humour” and “gluttons in need of a workout”, the Eat Fit Cutlery Set features fork and knife dumbbells at 1kg and the spoon, sold separately, is 2kg. Awkward and messy comes to mind.
We know that using the stairs is good exercise, and now according to a (very) small study by a group of Saskatchewan doctors, it’s also faster. 
The elevator vs. stair study found that it took twice as long to get to a designated floor when using the elevator instead of the stairs, and the difference is almost entirely due to the waiting.
I’m not wild about a claustrophobic elevator and neither was my young daughter, she absolutely refused to get in them for a time. So we were always using the stairs and sometimes we held races – she bounded up the stairwell while I waited for the elevator. It was a consistently close race.
The same concept applies to public transportation – I hate waiting for a bus so I walk instead. It takes me about 50 minutes to walk 6 city kms, depending on the weather, but it can easily take 35 to 45 minutes on the bus and metro when you consider the waiting, the walking to and fro, in and out, and all the stops along the way.
Benefits of incorporating exercise into everyday life:
“Our customers have been looking for a fun and safe way to express their holiday spirit and passion for firearms”
Ron Kennedy, general manager of the Scottsdale (Arizona) gun club on why they are offering a chance for families to pose for photographs with Santa and weaponry.
What do food and alcohol have in common?
The apocalypse, global warming, financial ruin, it all pales in comparison to the various ways we have of killing ourselves from the inside out. “Drunkorexia” is the latest self-inflicted model.
Research carried out by the University of Missouri revealed that about one in five students, mostly young women of course, were skipping meals during the day in order to “save the calories” for drinking at night. Not only is this regarded as a weight-control strategy, it also saves money because the “drunkorexic” gets wasted much faster on an empty stomach. We used to call this “a cheap date.”
Great news!
“…..jeans left unwashed for a year are no dirtier than those that have been worn for a fortnight, ” the New Zealand Herald reports,”…surprising results showed that (the) denim carried no more bacteria after 15 months of not washing than after two weeks.”
I guess that may be true about the bacteria count, but after three months of working in cucumber factories, picking olives and living on beaches in Greece, we finally washed our jeans at my aunt and uncle’s house in Germany, and promptly broke their washing machine.
Filthy jeans Post-storm Crete, Greece December 1982