Archive for August, 2011

Just 15 Minutes

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

Breaking news.

Any exercise is better than none.

That seems sort of obvious, but…

Hey, did you notice I’m doing the blog thing?

A line here.

A line there.

It’s like poetry that doesn’t rhyme.

Knock, knock.

Who’s there?

Haik.

Haiku?

Okay, enough already. We need some more sentences.

According to the new study (don’t worry, there will be another new study tomorrow), we can reap health benefits with as little as 15 minutes of exercise a day. That’s even less than the current CDC minimum recommendation of 150 minutes a week, which is about 22 minutes a day.

In other words, no more excuses.

Here’s the AP article from the Washington Post if you’d like to read it, but stand up and jump up and down while you do.

Secret to Long Life

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

The secret to living a long life? It’s your genes, baby! Eating right, getting enough exercise–all that helps, but not as much as good genes. That’s according to the Einstein’s Longevity Genes Project.

We could link to lots of articles that are reporting the same thing today, but we picked this one from The Daily Mail website because we liked the first picture so much. We liked it so much, we borrowed it.
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Grandma!

We can’t take her anywhere.

Turns out, when it comes to living a long time, what matters isn’t so much what you do, it’s who you know, as in your parents and their parents and so on.

Does that mean diet and exercise are irrelevant? Not at all. Especially since there’s no way of knowing exactly which genes we’ve got.

Where do people have the longest life expectancy? According to the CIA Factbook, Monaco takes the cake in 2011.