Maintain your Balance

Ever wonder if those bracelets that everyone is wearing to help them stay balanced really work? What's in those little pieces of rubber that we wear around our wrists and do they really work? Here's an article from ACE that just might have you thinking.

Nutrition for Exercise

Ever wonder what you need to eat either before, during or after you exercise. Here is a good article from the UK.

Kitchen Basics - Knife Skills

Eating healthy can cost a lot of money if you don't know your way around the kitchen and buy it ready-made.  Well, save your money and learn how to prepare your own health food.  Here are some kitchen basics from the Food Network on how to use one of the most important tools in the kitchen, your knife.

EPA, DHA, ALA, M..O..U..S..E

What's the deal with all of those letters?  If I eat right, I'll get everything that I need, right?
Maybe......
The important nutrient you’re not getting enough of (and how to get it)

The right way to prepare oatmeal

The right way to prepare oatmeal
A great article from EatingWell.com

Power Balance or Power of Persuasion?

Power Balance or Power of Persuasion?
Do those performance enhancement bracelets REALLY work?  ACE did a study and found out.

After a while, that strange smell in the kitchen seems to go through the entire house. The culprit is often your sponge.

Use your Microwave for something other than popcorn.

How your best friend can help you stay fit.

Personalized Health Clinical Report

Here is the final report on the clinical trials for the Gensona Genetic Testing. This study focuses on the IL1 gene that indicates risk factors for heart disease.

Read the report

February is National Heart Month

The American Council on Exercise is introducing an AED Anytime program to coincide with the American Heart Association's National Heart Month.


Read more about heart disease in BOTH Men & Women in this article from ACE
Heart Month, Feb 2007

GrassFire.org - Real Impact Online.

I know that this has nothing to do with health & wellness, but it is an issue that must be addressed.


In February, 2005, two US Boarder Patrol Agents caught a drug smuggler trying to bring in to the US 740 lbs of Marijuana. During a fight, the illegal smuggler baddly beat up one agent and was going after the other when the agent shot the smuggler in the behind. The smuggler got away, back to Mexico and the two agents are now in prison for shooting him and he is suing the US for $5 million.

Follow this link and sign the petition to right this injustice.
GrassFire.org - Real Impact Online.