It’s Healthbolt Carnival Time.
September 7, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Diets and Dieting, Exercise, Fitness, Food and Drink, Health, Healthbolt Carnival
It’s Healthbolt Carnival time again and it looks like a carnival mostly about nutrition and diet, with a few extras thrown in….
The Writer’s Coin tells us he recently registered for his first race in I Am Running an Urbanathlon, saying, ” It’s a ten-mile race with an obstacle course thrown in. Now I’m motivated to get in shape for it! Video of highlights included — it looks like it’ll be a blast!”
Sajid Surve from Brain Blogger asks Why Your City Planner Is Making You Fat saying “If we as Americans do one thing well, it’s gaining weight. The average United States household …read more
Baldy’s Blog Shows the Therapeutic Value of Blogging.
A recent Scientific American article – Blogging — It’s Good for You – looks at a study published earlier this year in Onocologist that “…reports that cancer patients who engaged in expressive writing just before treatment felt markedly better, mentally and physically, as compared with patients who did not.” Truth is, this is not a new finding. Scientists have known for years about the therapeutic value people derive from writing about personal experiences, thoughts, and feelings.
But blogging is a new frontier and scientists are curious as to how engaging in this medium might help those suffering from live threatening disease …read more
Re-Mission: A Video Game That Helps Kids Fight Cancer.
Fighting cancer is no game. But thanks to HopeLab, there is a video game designed to help empower kids with cancer.
The video game is Re-Mission and it features an intrepid nanobot called Roxxi who journeys through cancer patients bodies, destroying the cancer cells, fighting the infections, and dealing with the side effects usually associated with different cancers and cancer treatments.
If you think it’s just another video game, think again. To ensure that Re-Mission was on track to help cancer suffers, a controlled research study was undertaken prior to the game’s release. 375 cancer patients between the ages of 13 and 29 from …read more
