Healthbolt Bizarre: London Gym Using Midgets as Human Weights.
Gymbox owner Richard Hilton doesn’t see this as a gimmick. Instead, he calls it ‘ultimate embodiment of visualisation theory’.
Motivating or just plan bizarre?
The Monday Sidebar…
October 6, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Exposed!, Extreme, Historic Health, Humor, Medical History, Obesity, Oddities, The Sunday Sidebar
Ready for some more interesting, fascinating, unusual, strange, and even bizarre news…
Pay patients to go to the doctor? – in England, Health Service Managers are looking at ways to get people in unhealthy people in the lower social economic rankings to visit the doctor. The thinking is that if you can get people to the doctor earlier, before chronic illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease set in, the government health system would save money. It makes sort of makes sense. But the idea is getting flack from politicans and medical experts alike who say that the government shouldn’t be …read more
The Sunday Sidebar.
May 25, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Exposed!, Extreme, Gear, Green Health, Health, Misc., Oddities, Technology, The Sunday Sidebar
DIY Tracheotomy…
Could you take a knife to your throat and cut? Not sure I could, but this man has done so, not once but twice. And in doing so, has become his own savior. Seems his throat swelled up to the point where he could not breathe and afraid that the emergency services would not arrive in time, decided to perform a little ‘life saving’ surgery.
Dead, not Dead…
Her heart stopped despite intensive medical treatment following two heart attacks. She had no brain waves for 17 hours and rigor mortis seemed to be setting in. The family said their goodbyes and …read more
Ready, Aim…Pee.
May 20, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Across the Pond, Exposed!, Extreme, Gaming, Misc., Morning News, Oddities
Most of us use the toilet, well, to put it delicately, to relieve the body of no longer needed products.
But for two Belgian beer fans, that’s simply not enough. Seems that they think you should be able to relieve yourself and shot aliens or slalom down ski slopes at the same time.
To that end, they designed and have recently released the ‘Place to Pee’ video game. It’s set up in a booth and caters for two users at a time. Gamers (ie pee-ers) score by aiming and hitting sensors positioned on either side of the urinal.
And ladies, if you think …read more
