Archive for the 'Health and Fitness' Category



Swine flu scare has depleted many stores of their filtration masks

Earlier tonight my sister in law called me to ask about the recommended N95 filtration masks or respirators. Apparently she had gone out shopping with the kids today and couldn’t find any at the retail stores they visited.
I hadn’t been following this swine flu thing as I don’t watch the news. [...]

Found this fascinating video today on brain function

I’ve been really fascinated lately with the brain and meditation, especially in regards to different frequencies of brainwave for brain entrainment purposes. While chasing links on my research, I stumbled upon this video that was absolutely fascinating!
It looks like it’s a talk given by this lady named Jill Bolte Taylor who is a brain [...]

Health concerns with Canola oil in food label ingredient list

Tonight I’ve been on an “oil” kick when the topic of trail mix came up and the kind of oil certain ones are made with.
It’s hard to decipher food labels sometimes when you’re out at the stores browsing for something that’s good for you. Not only are the nutritional panel information to look at, [...]