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) Follow the doc's advice for office workers stuck at desks
Office workers caught up in the need to shape up and slim down while working at a sedentary job can have it all these days, by counting calories and getting creative with workplace stretching and exercise.It all boils down to that old adage: Use it or lose it, says Greg Thoelke, an exercise physiologist at Alaska Regional Hospital and former program director at the BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. fitness center.
"The human body is the only machine that breaks down if you don't use it," Thoelke said.
It also matters if the fuel you are using is watered down or premium, he said. "You get more bang for your buck with premium."
Young Fisher, a registered dietician and certified diabetes educator at Alaska Regional agrees.
With the national population rapidly increasing in size, as the obesity rate goes up, the United States is now the ninth fattest country in the world, Fisher said, with 74 percent of the population classified as overweight to obese. More>>
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) Commodities weigh on Europe stocks; Postbank rises
LONDON - European stocks fell early on Friday, hit by losses in commodities, as oil traded below recent record highs and investors worried about regulatory scrutiny for a big acquisition in the mining sector.But Deutsche Postbank and its owner, Deutsche Post, gained on reports that Commerzbank and Allianz were planning a joint bid for Postbank.
At 0833 GMT, the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 benchmark was down 0.8 percent at 1,335.87 points, led lower by miners Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, which fell more than 2 percent on worries that BHP's bid for Rio would run into regulatory trouble. Index-heavyweight oil stocks BP, Shell and Total fell 0.5-1.4 percent, as oil traded well shy of its record above $135 a barrel, though it resumed its relentless rise and added $1 to trade near $132. More>> - (
) Expect a rosy old age in Blue Zones
If you are looking for a Fountain of Youth, forget pills and diet supplements. Adventurer Dan Buettner has visited four spots on the globe where people live into their 90s and 100s and outlines how they add years of good life in his new book, "The Blue Zones." . More>> - (
) Former CEO of Body Solutions pleads guilty
The former CEO of a company that used radio personalities to market Body Solutions weight-loss products pleaded guilty Monday to lying to federal regulators about his assets.Harry Siskind, 53, former chief executive of Mark Nutritional Inc., entered the plea in federal district court in San Antonio.
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) getting closer with Ubuntu
"Like cold fusion or a painless weight-loss plan, a user-friendly version of Linux remains elusive. But developers are getting closer with Ubuntu - a free, Linux-based operating system that appeared in October 2004 and is winning over waves of converts, including high-profile geeks like Cory Doctorow." . More>> - (
) Abbas, Bush Meet at White House Int’l Quartet for Middle East Peace to Meet in London May 2
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who arrived in Washington from Andrews Air Force Base late Tuesday, was scheduled to meet at the White House with President George W. Bush for talks about peace topics, which Abbas discussed with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday. The Palestinian leader was invited to Washington by Bush only three weeks before Bush�s visit to Israel on May 14.
Early Wednesday, Abbas met with King Abdullah II of Jordan in Washington.
During his meeting with Rice, Abbas said time was running out if the target laid out at the Annapolis Conference in November was to be met, and more pressure must be exerted on Israel to stop the expansion of the illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Recounting what Abbas told Rice, head of the negotiations department of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Saeb Erekat, said: "The gaps between the two sides on the core issues are deep."
Senior UN official, Angela Kane, the Assistant-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, told the Security Council Wednesday that the Israelis and Palestinians were now engaged in the most intensive negotiations on the final status of their disputed area since the breakdown of the Israeli-Palestinian political process nearly eight years ago. More>> - (
) Indian political party fights back with fast food
MUMBAI (Reuters) - A political party in Mumbai best known for its anti-immigrant rhetoric has decided to launch its own chain of fast food stands, but with an ideological flavor that could stick in some throats.Shiv Sena already has a powerful, dichotomous influence over India's financial capital: it runs the city through its control of the municipal authority, and its followers habitually paralyze parts of the city with rowdy protests.
Now, just as its supremacy is threatened by the rising prominence of an offshoot party, it wants to extend its influence over arguably the most popular snack in a city that seems to sustain itself on its street food -- namely vada pav.
"We're making a chain like McDonald's," said Sanjay Raut, a Shiv Sena member of parliament, describing a move only a little less unexpected of an Indian political party than if the U.S. More>>