Posts Tagged ‘ spine ’

Sugar Intake Not Associated With Obesity Survey

May 18th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Health

New Zealanders‘ intake of sugar is not associated with being overweight or obese, new research released by the Sugar Research Advisory Service has found.
The New Zealand research, headed by University of Otago’s Dr Winsome Parnell and recently published online by Public Health Nutrition, examined data collected in the most recent New Zealand nutrition surveys for [...]



Going local in San Blas

Apr 1st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Travel

I can’t believe my luck when I find Toyo online. He leaps off the screen as a potential next host in my travel-networking venture. In fact, he leaps off two, having profiles on both hospitalityclub.org and couchsurfing.com.Toyo (aka Eustorgio) lists himself as a 41-year-old resident of San Blas, an archipelago of nearly 400 islands in [...]



Bowling actions taking their toll on Kiwi kids

Mar 26th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Sports

Then he visits Simon Kellys Mt Eden chiropractic practice to unravel the damage done to his back by the relentless pounding of delivering a cricket ball.
IT HAS long been understood by sports science professionals that bowling puts huge stress on the body. Studies have suggested the moment in the delivery stride when the bowlers front [...]



Pacific Dining Room

Mar 19th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Culture

External URL: What does the score mean?
It is “very Melbourne”, I’m told, though I’m not sure just what
that means. I can’t think of a Bleak City restaurant with a large
wooden tiki out front (is this the Survivor set?), bifold doors
peeled open so an ocean breeze can subjugate the subtropical heat
or a maitre d’ in a [...]



Pacific Dining Room

Mar 19th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Culture

External URL: What does the score mean?
It is “very Melbourne”, I’m told, though I’m not sure just what
that means. I can’t think of a Bleak City restaurant with a large
wooden tiki out front (is this the Survivor set?), bifold doors
peeled open so an ocean breeze can subjugate the subtropical heat
or a maitre d’ in a [...]



Ride of passage

Mar 14th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Travel

As a kid in Salford, the only horses I saw belonged to the rag-and-bone, to the mounted Dibbles at Old Trafford or to the Travellers who sold us clothes pegs and sprays of lucky heather. Further along life’s path, I find myself cantering along ancient Spanish drovers’ routes and click-clacking up cobbled Roman roads, my [...]



Shortterm Stress Can Affect Learning And Memory

Mar 14th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Health

It has been known that severe stress lasting weeks or months can impair cell communication in the brain’s learning and memory region, but this study provides the first evidence that short-term stress has the same effect.
%26quot;Stress is a constant in our lives and cannot be avoided,%26quot; said Dr. Tallie Z. Baram, the Danette Shepard Chair [...]



Fully functional

Mar 14th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Health

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Not too long ago, Pilates was the rage, then we started learning about the importance of core training.
Now, functional training is all the buzz.
While fitness professionals are immersed in it, the basics of the training are still new to many exercisers.
Functional training aims to help exercisers do everyday movements while maintaining [...]



Pacific Dining Room

Mar 13th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Culture

External URL: What does the score mean?
It is “very Melbourne”, I’m told, though I’m not sure just what
that means. I can’t think of a Bleak City restaurant with a large
wooden tiki out front (is this the Survivor set?), bifold doors
peeled open so an ocean breeze can subjugate the subtropical heat
or a maitre d’ in a [...]



A smarter dummy

Mar 4th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Health

In researching the problem, bioengineer Kristy Arbogast talked to automakers about devising restraints that would be safer for small, immature bodies.
“The response I’d get back was, ‘We don’t have the tools we need to design better child seat belts,’ ” said Arbogast, a traffic-injury researcher at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
What they needed was a smarter [...]