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Diet Soda May Raise Risk of Premature Birth
Diet soda has a long history in the United States. In 1952, Kirsch Bottling in Brooklyn, New York debuted a sugar-free ginger ale called No-Cal, targeting it to diabetics.
It wasn’t until 1963 that Coca-Cola entered the diet soda market with Tab.
To keep calories down, diet sodas are sweetened with various sugar substitutes, cyclamates, saccharin, and aspartame. But fears of cancer have spooked many customers away from artificially sweetened drinks.
In 1970, the Food and Drug Administration banned cyclamates in the U.S. on evidence that they caused cancer in lab rats.
And premature birth may be another concern. W
Weekly Fitness Wrap-up
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Weekly Fitness Wrap-up
Strawberry Ice Cream and How to Kiss a Woman
Yummy, Mechanically Separated Chicken!
This is what companies do to get the last bit of meat off the bone. They actually scrape the bones and use it!.
The Clam Bake Workout
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I got my butt kicked!
This past weekend was my family’s annual family clam bake to celebrate my parents’ birthdays. They fall within a couple days of each other, so right around that time we steam a bunch of little neck clams and drinks some assorted beverages and just enjoy each others company with a few other members of the extended family.
It’s a great time every year. It is one time where I just relax, drink some beers and devour some clams.
So as I was driving around to help get things set up Thursday and Friday, I thought it would be cool to throw it out there to my Facebook friends to have them challenge me for my Saturday morning workout and really work up my appetite so I could go for “PR” in clam eating.
It’s fun to get ideas from other trainees because they always end up pushing me to do something I would probably NEVER subject myself to.
So, Friday night I got on and asked any and all comers to post suggestions for my workout, including the movement, sets, and reps. I got some
Obese Kids Have “Flatter” Feet
“Flat feet” occur when the arches in a person’s feet are flat; while typically painless, occasionally a collapsed arch can cause ankle and knee discomfort, or worsen natural wear-and-tear in the feet.
All babies have flat feet, but as the child grows up the arches naturally develop.
But new research in the International Journal of Obesity says obese children tend to have flatter feet than kids with healthier weights.
Scientists used ultrasound to analyze the feet of 150 children, ages 6 to 10; half the kids were obese and the other half were thinner.
The researchers found obese children had lower arches and more padding on the soles of their feet. But t