Unusual Weight Loss Tricks

These are very interesting. From ThirdAge.

Get Off Your Butts Old Ladies!

Too Much TV, Too Little Exercise Tied to Depression

More time spent being active might boost self-esteem and women's sense of control, as well as the endorphins in their blood, although the study could not prove directly that watching too much television and avoiding exercise caused depression, she added.

Expensive Pee

Today's Wall Street Journal has an article that must have old Linus Pauling turning over in his previously-thought-to-be-nutrient-rich grave -

"Is This the End of Popping Vitamins?" 

The case for dietary supplements is collapsing.

A succession of large-scale human studies, including two published earlier this month in leading medical journals, suggests that multivitamins and many other dietary supplements often don't have health benefits—and in some cases may even cause harm. 

I'm skeptical. I mean, they don't even quote anyone from Tufts' Friedman School of Nutrition. Everyone knows they're the smartest. Go Jumbos! 

Heavy Stuff

Here's an interesting article on the heft of potential presidential candidate, and New Jersey governor, Chris Christie, including a discussion about how odd it is that someone's weight is still fair game for ridicule.

Don't Hate the Player

Gary Player has won 160 tournaments over the course of his lengthy career, including the Grand Slam and Senior Grand Slam (winning all 4 majors in a year). He's the only guy who's ever done that.

He keeps incredibly fit, and at age 75 makes Patrick Bateman - 


look like Michael Moore (here he is exercising) -

Read about how he (Gary Player) does 1000 crunches and 1000 pushups every day, just to get warmed up.

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424053111903520204576482082753114232-lMyQjAxMTAxMDAwMjEwNDIyWj.html