Guess what?  Sitting down for long hours, every day, will kill you.  That’s what the Journal of  Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise says.  Apparently it will kill you even if you exercise regularly.  This is bad news for the millions of office workers who sit at a desk, using a computer all day. [...]

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When faced with a problem, which is better: Staying at your computer for an hour, and grinding until you figure out the solution? or Going for a 40 minute walk and figuring out the solution? North America has a “sitting paradigm” for doing work.  If the boss sees you staring at your monitor he might [...]

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This is H1N1 scare is havoc on a parent’s nerves.  Our 2 year-old son recently became sick with a serious fever.  It was the weekend, and the first question that entered my mind was: when should I take him to the hospital? Taking a sick child to emergency is the worst: putting them in an [...]

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