Naked Body Scanners: If You Must Be Exposed

Naked Body Scanners: If You Must Be Exposed

"Now, if you do decide to go through the body scanners… here’s how you can make the best of an insane situation: Demand a hard copy.

That’s right. If they are going to radiate you and your family … you at least deserve a copy of the photos. Why would you want a copy? Because a full body scan will reveal muscle imbalances in your body. These muscle imbalances are the cause of most back and neck pain. A healthy body looks perfectly symmetrical when standing. But that’s not the case for most people. Most people have hips out of place, uneven shoulders, tilted heads. We’re a mess."

Haha, nice.

The Vegetable Band

The Vegetable Band

I saw this years ago, but it's still a pretty neat idea.

Intervention.

I recently watched and episode of Intervention that focused on a man in his mid twenties with type 1 diabetes. I have to give credit to the producers for deciding to do an episode with this topic. Typically Intervention follows drug addicts or individuals with eating disorders (only Anorexia and Bulimia from what I have seen) but I think it's important to bring attention to other topics in relation to depression, like this episode. I have yet to see an episode with COE (compulsive over eating), or concentrating on other diseases people aren't treating. But I'm sure Intervention won't let me down.

Obesity please?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH81IPAzvm4

I have mixed feelings about this.

I believe our lives are our own and we should be able to do with them what we want. But in saying that I realize I only believe this to a certain degree. I think it's irresponsible to this woman to be taking such a huge change with her life when she has a child. I think it's very unfair that she is disabling herself from completing to many activities that her daughter would love to do with her mom.

But, I guess maybe she would think that things I would do as a parent are wrong. Like restricting my child to eating certain foods...

Proposed policy change: definition and energy value for dietary fibre.

I haven't completely read this yet, but I will sometime today.

Health Canada dietary fibre definition and energy value

How many minutes a day should you exercise

I posted earlier about the changes that the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology and paticipACTION made earlier this week. Specifically I posted a link for a post on Weighty Matters.

The writer of the blog made a new post regarding his opinion.

"So my answer to the question of how many minutes a day should you exercise? As many minutes as you can enjoy, and every single one of them count."

Nutirtion Action Newsletter

My mom purchased me a subscription to this newsletter a couple years ago (and renewed it for me!).

I think most public libraries carry it. It's definitely worth a look.