Did you know that July is Cankle Awareness Month? Well, at least to the degree that Gold’s Gym has the power to declare such things. The company has even launched a Web site called Say No to Cankles that’s devoted to ridding us of this scourge. But what, you might ask, can you do to help with what Gold’s says is “no laughing matter”?
From the July issue of Runner’s World:
“The proper dosage for naproxen [Aleve] is 200 to 400 milligrams every 12 hours, not 3,200 milligrams per day as listed in ‘What Hurts?’”
That’s a pretty significant difference!
I started to post a photo from a cookout, but then I remembered what Memorial Day is supposed to recognize. Enjoy the long weekend, but thank a vet if you get the chance.
It’s not often that a Web site can make both your mouth water and your stomach churn. With the tagline “Where dreams become heart attacks,” though, it seems this site is intended to deter, rather than entice. Check out the photos of dishes like bacon chocolate cake, lardz (deep fried lard balls topped with sugar), donut fries and totchos (tater tots covered in ground beef, jalapeño peppers, cheese, salsa and sour cream).
Makes me long for Summerfest.
Last year, I passed on a Runner’s World forum for embarrassing running stories. Now Fitness has gotten into the act, with a forum collecting embarrassing gym stories. Incontinence, gas, treadmill spills, wardrobe malfunctions—if you can’t compete with such tales, you can at least enjoy them!
Any pate lovers out there? You may have cut back due to the recession, but I have good news—you might just be satisfied with dog food. The Association of Wine Economists just released a study that suggests most people can’t tell the difference between pate and dog food.
Researchers gave 18 volunteers five unlabeled blended meat products—duck liver mousse, pork liver pate, pureed liverwurst, Spam and Newman’s Own dog food. Only three correctly identified the dog food, even though they had been warned that it would be included in the samples. Eight volunteers thought the liverwurst was the dog food, and four believed it was the Spam. Three others concluded either the pate or the mousse was dog food.
The conclusion, acccording to the study’s co-author: “We have this idea in our head that dog food won’t taste good and that we would be able to identify it, but it turns out that is not the case.”
Twenty-five years ago, I was a junior in high school, taking Journalism and writing editorials for the school paper. And apparently I was interested in fitness even then—at least for purposes of a single editorial assignment. Behold this simile-stretching blast from the past that I found in a box of high school junk the other day.
Newsweek has a fantastic slide show with 100 years of beauty ads making outrageous promises. With taglines like “I pledge myself to guard every bit of beauty he cherishes in me,” “Can you compete with your daughter’s ‘little girl look’?” and “I learned fron a beauty expert how to hold my husband—and why so many women fail,” it’s not to be missed.
Time has a fascinating article this week about what we buy, and don’t buy, in a recession. The results are both revealing and, at times, perplexing.
Some of the best-performing product categories so far this year:
According to the article, family planning products were “up 10.2% for the first two months of this year. Unit sales were up 1.5%, which indicates that consumers are willing to pay higher prices today to prevent crib expenses tomorrow.”
Some of the worst-performing:
Here’s a question: How discretionary are expenses for feminine hygiene and baby needs? Recession or no recession, it seems like the demand would be fairly inelastic.
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