Myth Busters: Old Wives Tales Exposed!
August 18, 2008 by Liberty Kontranowski
Filed under A Mother's Wisdom, Blogosphere, Easy Health Tips, Exposed!, Fiction, Health, Prevention
You’ve debated them around the water cooler for years. Your mother has warned you about a good many of them. Seinfeld even had a whole show built around one of them (#5). What are they?
Old Wives Tales, of course.
But are they tales, or do some of them hold some truth a grain or two of truth? Take the quiz below to test your own knowledge on some of the most commonly accepted thoughts out there. Then check your answers and get the explanations you seek at MSNBC.com.
1. Cell phones are dangerous to use in hospitals because they can interfere with …read more
My Pick – Healthbolt’s Top 5 Posts.
May 16, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Easy Health Tips, Endurance, Exposed!, Greatest Hits, Health, Misc., Sex, Theme Days
I suddenly realized that Liberty and I have just passed our 5 month anniversary as Healthbolt bloggers. Wow, how time flies when you’re having fun. And it is fun. Getting to research and post on all the interesting, informative, bizarre, and oddball health and medical things is like a dream come true…
I did some maths and five months working on ‘the Bolt’ equates to around 250 posts between us. That’s a whole lot of words.
My choice for Top 5 Posts…
Doing a Hasselhoff…new medical slang and it’s companion piece Pumpkin Positive – more medical slang would be my all time favorite …read more
Movie Theater Cuisine: So Good, But So Very, Very Bad
April 24, 2008 by Liberty Kontranowski
Filed under A Mother's Wisdom, Food and Drink, Health, Nutrition, Snacking, Your Body
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I stumbled across an article today in the current issue of Men’s Health, and it pert near brought me to tears. Why so? Because they gave a no holds barred rundown of movie theater goodies – admittedly the reason I even attend movies sometimes – and let me tell you, it ain’t pretty.
Yes, I realize you already knew that movie theater fare doesn’t qualify as health food. But I bet you unless you’ve made a conscious effort to research this sort of thing, you’ll be astounded by the calorie and fat content of these …read more
