The Fire Department of New York offers free CPR training in New York City. The 45 minute classes are held once a month at different public libraries around the city. The classes, called “CPR-To Go”, don’t provide CPR certification but instead the “primary goal is to raise awareness of the important of immediate action in [...]
Continuing the theme, this funny video runs through the list of things runners say (or “Sh!t Runners Say”). Most of us runners have uttered these phrases at some point in our training.
“Jog? I run!”
The last few years it would have been hard to miss the health care debate between political parties, in the press and, for some of us, between friends and family. The ever-increasing cost of health care as well as the concern with funding Medicare promises to the elderly in the future have been key drivers [...]
Continue Reading →I updated both this website and Chemical Cake to support sharing articles to Pinterest. Pinterest is a virtual pinboard you can easily share links on. The site is image based, so unlike Tumblr, where one can post simple text as well, shared links must [...]
Continue Reading →Judging healthy portions is difficult, especially given that the portions sizes in general have grown larger and larger in recent years. My own trouble with portion control is that I’ve become used to outsized servings offered at restaurants. It is easier to reduce your portions of food through visualization, weighing and by physically restricting the [...]
Continue Reading →To assist with pricing and inventory control, all produce is labeled with price look-up codes (also referred to as PLU code, product code, or price code). PLU codes are 4-digit numbers. Although the PLU code may be prefixed with a 5th digit to indicate if the item is organic, it is not a a reliable [...]
Continue Reading →In keeping with time-honored traditions it is time to create a list of resolutions for the new year. This year I plan to lose weight, spend smarter through my Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and on vitamins that work, and take control of my own health care by getting copies of my medical records. I’ve listed [...]
Continue Reading →Regular exercise is key to losing weight, but, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, women who wrote about their most important values 15 minutes a day lost more weight than those who didn’t.
This makes a lot of sense: thinking about yourself positively and what’s important to you [...]
Continue Reading →Actor and athlete Vinnie Jones shows how hard and fast hands-only CPR can help save the life of someone who’s had a heart attack in this public service video from the British Heart Foundation. The video advises that the first thing to do is call emergency services (in the US, of course, [...]
Continue Reading →Recently at a New York City high school, a high school student choked and died. According to the story in the Daily News, there was a 14 minute delay from when the choking occurred until 911 was called. If true, it would be a shame that no bystander was [...]
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