The NYT blog "The Upshot" put together a story and a dynamic chart published Oct. 10 that encapsulates a ton more information than at first glance. Play with the variables and think about what it's really telling us.
The story, "Heavier Babies Do Better in School" by David Leonhardt and Amanda Cox, is about a neonatal…
The Varidesk Pro Plus in the up position
I am an antsy dude, generally, and with catastrophic posture while seated at work here in the converted dining room. Plus the alarming, if not entirely concrete, in my estimation, health effects of long-term duff-parking. I had been casually looking into stand-up desks but had been scared off by…
Kevin Nicol, a research assistant and D1 cyclist, crunches numbers as Robert Jones warms up for his testing in the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center's Human Performance Laboratory. Nicol, 46, ascribes to CU Prof Inigo San Millan's metabolic fitness philosophy. Nicol can cycle up Golden's four-mile, 1,250-foot Lookout Mountain in 17 minutes flat, 10 minutes…
Amid my sixth and most foolish soccer career at age 44 (indoor, over-30 coed, more challenging than it sounds), I've pounded my feet into plantar fasciitis twice now, joining Antonio Gates, Ty Lawson and untold legions of middle-agers (not to be confused with medieval individuals) limping around. By the second time I knew a lot more about…
I'm a fan of MedPage today, but these folks are seriously under the copy-cranking gun and often publish summaries of studies absent of perspective. Today's story, "After-School Soccer Little Help in Obesity Battle" is another example.
These kids and Michelle Obama are all wasting their time, MedPage Today reports.
The story reports a JAMA Pediatrics study. The…