Archive for February, 2007
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Health Care Spending in 2016
According to a WebMD article Health Care Spending will reach 20% of all spending in 2016. This is an amazing number to me, but it’s really not that surprising. As baby boomers get older it makes sense that more money would go towards health care. Medical advances should continue at an exponential rate. Of course [...]
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Food of the Week: Chicken
This week I’m starting a brand new series called Food of the Week. To kick things off, I wanted to pick one of the healthiest things I could think of, chicken. What makes chicken so healthy? It’s high quantity of quality protein and low carbohydrate makes it a diet staple. Did you know that if [...]
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My Health Week in Review #2
It’s time for a quick update on my health. Body Stats: I just weighed myself and it came up with 168.5lbs – a loss of 1.5lbs from last week. My Tanita scale reads 21.0% body fat – a gain of 1% more fat. My Omron handheld fat analyzer reads 16.9% – a gain of nearly [...]
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Switching up My Lunch and Dinner
It’s always struck me as odd that Americans (like myself) always eat the biggest meal at the end of the day. It just doesn’t make sense. Taking in all those extra calories at night without expending them means they just get stored as fat. It seems to me that it would make sense to have [...]
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How to Eat Healthy on the Cheap
As you are probably aware, I’m also writing for the moderately successful, Lazy Man and Money. This means that I do a lot of thinking about where I allocate my money. On one hand Mac and Cheese and Ramen are really wallet friendly, but they don’t do much for your healthy. Free-range meats and organic [...]
