Exercise

MY NEW CHRISTMAS FITNESS PROGRAM

Life Expectancy Calculator

How Long Will You Live?

Click Here: Life Expectancy Calculator

This tool is designed to help you understand how certain behaviours like smoking, alcohol, food, exercise and stress level can affect life expectancy.

The calculator doesn’t guarantee accuracy and can’t account for people with pre-existing medical conditions. But, in general, it reveals how behaviour, such as the amount of exercise you get, can affect life expectancy.

Proud Canadian Joke ~ Happy Canada Day

A recent study found

the average Canadian walks

about 900 miles a year.

Another study found

Canadians drink,

on average,

22 gallons of beer a year.    That means,

on average,

Canadians get about 41 miles to the gallon.

Kind Of Makes You Proud To Be Canadian,

doesn’t it??!!

Note: Measurements are Imperial Measures (because the the studies were done by Americans!)

900

miles (statute) is equal to

1,448.41

kilometers.

• 22
  gallons (US) is equal to

  83.28

  litres

miles (statute) is equal to

65.98

kilometers.

17.5 km/litres

 Happy Canada Day

Weekly Fitness Routine – My Version of a Workout

The Doctor told me, I should start an exercise program. Not Wanting

to harm this old body, I’ve devised the following:

Monday

Beat around the bush

Jump to conclusions

Climb the walls

Wade through the morning paper

Tuesday

Drag my heels

Push my luck

Make mountains out of mole hills

Hit the nail on the head

Wednesday

Bend over backwards

Jump on the Band Wagon

Run around in circles

Thursday

Advise the President on how to run the country

Toot my own horn

Pull out all the stops

Add fuel to the fire

Friday

Open a can of worms

Put my foot in my mouth

Start the ball rolling

Go over the edge

Saturday

Pick up the pieces.

Sunday

Kneel in prayer

Bow my head in thanksgiving

Uplift my hands in praise

Hug someone and encourage them.

Whew! What a workout!

funny emails

Chocolate Can Help You Be Thinner

SWEET!

Best news I’ve heard in years!

Especially around Easter time.

What’s the best way to stay thin?

A new study finds it’s

and

eating a healthy diet full of – chocolate

So should you start adding a bar of chocolate to your daily diet?

Researchers say it’s too soon to say.

I disagree!

Better to be safe than sorry!

Even though chocolate can be loaded with calories, it’s full of antioxidants and other ingredients that may promote weight loss, the researchers said.

What kind of chocolate is best? ~ dark chocolate, because of its bitter flavor,  may suppress appetite whereas sweet chocolate may stimulate it.

The study was performed by scientists at the University of California, La Jolla.

How much chocolate should you eat each day?

 About 1 oz or 28-gram portion of dark chocolate, or add cocoa powder to your food or coffee just once a day.

When is National Cleavage Day?

Wikipedia

~National Cleavage Day (abbreviated NCD)^[1] is an annual celebration held in either March or April and sponsored by the brassiere marketerWonderbra.^[2] National Cleavage Day was started in 2002 and held at the beginning of April every year.^[3] Wonderbra together with theCosmopolitan magazine and 5fm, a SABC radio station mainly based in Johannesburg, sponsored the National Cleavage Day.^[4]

According to Samantha Paterson, the brand manager for Wonderbra, the National Cleavage Day is started according to a design to solemnise women’s independence and power in all facets of life, from their careers to their relationships to their own destiny.

The full list of celebrities who made it into the Cleavage Hall of Fame is as follows:

1.    Holly Willoughby
2.    Scarlett Johansson
3.    Beyonce
4.    Rihanna
5.    Marilyn Monroe
6.    Dita Von Teese
7.    Katy Perry
8.    Brigitte Bardot
9.    Kim Kardashian
10.  Lara Stone

In a study Conducted by German gerontologist Dr Karen Weatherby, it was revealed that there is a strong correlation between sexual desire and overall health. She is quoted as saying: “Sexual excitement gets the heart pumping and improves blood circulation. There’s no question: Gazing at breasts makes men healthy.”

The researcher also suggested that men over the age of 40 should get their 10 minutes per day of breast ogling to improve their lifespan by as much as five years.

What a great study! Should be more studies like this!

Happy National Cleavage Day!

Gas Prices ~ Record Highs ~ New World Emergency

Q: How high are gas prices in New York City?

A: So high rats are carpooling in from New Jersey! 

Gas prices are soaring in North America, with no end in sight.

Gas Prices Update:

October 7, 2012 Gasoline prices in California rose to another all-time high on Sunday after passing a four-year high a day earlier, according to AAA.

AAA reported in its latest update on Sunday that the statewide average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline is $4.655. Saturday’s average of $4.6140 was the highest since June 19, 2008, when it was $4.6096.

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World’s New Emergency ~ High Fuel Costs

Whether it’s wind, whether it’s solar, whether it’s inventing alternative fuels for our vehicles, whether it’s battery power, whatever it is, whatever it takes, we’ve got to become self-sufficient because the supply of oil is so fragile and the cost is so high.

The age of cheap oil is over and we face one of the biggest challenges of our society to switch our economy from a dependence on oil to one that can utilise sustainable fuels efficiently and cost effectively.

If we move quickly whole new industries can be created sustainably. The billions of dollars and pounds that we send overseas will remain in our own countries. The cost of fuel will drop back to reasonable levels and a wonderful bi-product of all this will be the fact that global warming could be averted. But we can’t wait another day. ~ Richard Branson Founder of Virgin Group

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In the United States, fuel prices are reaching all-time highs. The nationwide average hovered at around $3.90 per gallon. In the Chicago area, the price jumped to a record $4.60 per gallon.

In Canada, the average price of gas stood at $1.30 per litre.

 Gasoline prices at this level at this time of the year have never been seen before! 

President Barack Obama, in Miami to refuel his re-election campaign,  bashed Republicans for politically “licking their chops” over the high price of fuel at the pump.

“Some politicians always see this as a political opportunity. You’re shocked, I know,” Obama said to University of Miami students.

“Only in politics do people greet bad news so enthusiastically. You pay more, and they’re licking their chops?” Obama asked rhetorically. “And you can bet that since it’s an election year, they’re already dusting off their three-point plans for $2 gas.”

Did anyone ask him what would happen to the cost of gasoline if the US or Israel go to war with Iran???

High Gas Prices ~ A Saab State of Affairs

Soon, with Gas prices so high, upwardly mobile Americans will not even a ford to live in their cars!

Plain and simple, everyone’s fuming over the high cost of gas at the pump ( except for the “1%” who own the Gas companies!)

The Government auto know better than to place such a high tax on gasoline. The profits of Big Oil Companies are too high. Money needs to be distributed better in our society.

I don’t acclaim to be an export on this issue, but gimme a brake! I think it’s my civic duty to report these facts. My mercury is rising and I don’t think we should dodge the problem. There are just too many people who can’t a ford to fill up their car which is a tragedy in America and such a saab story!

Unfortunately, I carn’t think of what else to write because I have engine block,  so oil leave now…

What is President Obama’s new fitness program to get people walking again?

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Gas Prices at over $4.00 a Gallon!

Maybe I’ll try biking again!

“The Federal Trade Commission has ruled that oil companies are not gouging customers. They say, technically, they’re screwing customers.” –David Letterman

Ode To The New Year ~ Christmas Diet Fail

‘Twas the month after Christmas, and all through the house Nothing would fit me, not even a blouse.

The cookies I’d nibbled, the eggnog I’d taste At the holiday parties had gone to my waist.

When I got on the scales there arose such a number!

When I walked to the store (less a walk than a lumber).

I’d remember the marvellous meals I’d prepared; The gravies and sauces and beef nicely rared,

The wine and the rum balls, the bread and the cheese And the way I’d never said, ‘No thank you, please.’

As I dressed myself in my husband’s old shirt And prepared once again to do battle with dirt – I said to myself, as I only can ‘You can’t spend a winter disguised as a man!’

So – away with the last of the sour cream dip, Get rid of the fruit cake, every cracker and chip

Every last bit of food that I like must be banished ‘Till all the additional ounces have vanished.

I won’t have a cookie – not even a lick.

I’ll want only to chew on a long celery stick.

I won’t have hot biscuits, or corn bread, or pie, I’ll munch on a carrot and quietly cry.

I’m hungry, I’m lonesome, and life is a bore But isn’t that what January is for?

Unable to giggle, no longer a riot.

Happy New Year to all and to all a good diet!

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Say Goodbye to 2011

Zeitgeist 2011: Year In Review

CYBER MONDAY NECK EXERCISES

A few exercises to make your Cyber Monday Shopping less stressful!

and for the end of the day

Life and shopping don’t get any better than this!

New Years Resolution 2012 – More Exercise and Walking

“Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.” — Anonymous

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Why I won’t be walking for Exercise in 2012

Walking can add minutes to your life.

This enables you at 85 years old

to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing

home at $7000 per month.

I like long walks,

especially when they are taken

by people who annoy me.

The only reason I would take up walking

is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

I have to walk early in the morning,

before my brain figures out what I’m doing..

I joined a health club last year,

spent about 400 bucks.

Haven’t lost a pound.

Apparently you have to go there.

Every time I hear the dirty word ‘exercise’,

I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

The advantage of exercising every day

is so when you die, they’ll say,

‘Well, she looks good doesn’t she.’

If you are going to try cross-country skiing,

start with a small country.

I know I got a lot of exercise

the last few years,……

just getting over the hill.

We all get heavier as we get older,

because there’s a lot more information in our heads.

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

AND

Every time I start thinking too much

about how I look,

I just find a Happy Hour

and by the time I leave,

I look just fine.

You could run this over to your friends

But just e-mail it to them