An Official State Exercise?

I am all for fitness and being healthy, but wud da fuq? A measure has passed the House and is now moving through the Senate to make the jumping jack an official part of the Missouri’s identity.

Me: Want to go on a chocolate run later?
LC: I should probably just go on a run.

Winterize Your Skin

Cold, windy and wet conditions outside and drying, furnace-fueled heat indoors makes for brutal conditions. Your skin is often left either dry, cracked and flaky, or painfully tight, splotchy and burning. Good times, right?

The only defense is to keep your skin as healthy and hydrated as possible. And despite how good a hot shower feels in the morning, Andrew Goetz advises against it. “That’s the number one mistake guys make in the winter,” he says. “I know they feel nice, but they’ll dehydrate your skin very quickly.” Aim for lukewarm showers until March and follow these tips to get some cold comfort.

Sour Candy Almost as Bad as Battery Acid

Pure water’s pH level is 7, which is a neutral acidic level. At ph4, your teeth start losing enamel, one of the four tissues that make up teeth. Enamel it’s the hardest substance in human bodies. 96-percent is made of minerals.

Health Problems of the Modern Age

1. Computer Vision Syndrome

• A temporary condition resulting from focusing the eyes on a computer display for protracted, uninterrupted periods of time.

2. Earbud-related Hearing Loss

• As iPod and MP3 player users nestle earbuds into their ears, each listen could increase the possibility of permanent hearing damage.

3. E-thrombosis

• A newly recognized variant of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) caused by sitting at a computer for long periods of time.

4. Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• A pattern of frequent, constant worry and anxiety over many different activities and events.

5. Orthorexia Nervosa

• A term used by professionals within the medical community to describe people who have developed a fixation with healthy or righteous eating.

6. Sick Building Syndrome

• A combination of ailments associated with an individual’s place of work or residence. Most of the sick building syndrome is related to poor indoor air quality.

7. Social Anxiety Disorder

• An anxiety disorder characterized by intense fear in social situations causing considerable distress and impaired ability to function in at least some parts of daily life.

Discovery Health

Movember 2011

Movember starts today! This is your chance to grow a kick ass mustache and raise money for prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men.

If you live in Columbia and are interested, you can find out more on Wednesday at Mizzou for Movember Kick-Off Party at Bengals! Or you can even follow their Tumblr here.

To help you choose a mustache style, Art of Manliness illustrator, Ted Slampyak has created the chart above. So you’ve had a moment, which mustache will you be growing?

Don’t Drink Cola if You Want to be Healthy

• In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
• 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
• 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
• 45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
• >60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
• >60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
• >60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.

Starbucks Placing Calories on Menu Boards

In an effort to give more information to customers when they are eating outside of their homes, Starbucks will now post calorie information in their British stores. A simple, small black filter coffee contains a mere 3 calories, but a venti hot chocolate with whole milk and topped with whipped cream contains an astonishing 690 calories, more than a double cheeseburger and french fries from McDonald’s.

Steve Jobs is taking a Medical Leave of Absence

You know what they say, buying an apple a day keeps the doc away.

Menu Monday: Get It Right, Get It Tight

Breakfast

• XS Energy Drink

Lunch

• Cinnamon apple sauce, flatbread, medium cheddar cheese, hot pepper cheese

Dinner

• Green salad with red peppers and bleu cheese, seasoned chicken on a bed of white rice