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Back in June, I wrote about Drew Manning’s journey on being fit and getting fat within a 6-month time span. His purpose is to gain 50 – 60 pounds of fat and then teach people how they can get fit and stay fit. It is now October and the transformation is quite shocking. Here is how he currently looks:
Starting weight was 193 lbs. He is now at 263.4 pounds.
I have to give him credit on doing this.
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iWatch News/The Center For Public Integrity: Health Information Technology: Incentives May Not Always Serve Intended Purpose About half of the first batch of federal dollars meant to encourage doctors and hospitals to switch to electronic records went to providers who were converts to the technology long before the stimulus program was announced, an iWatch News analysis suggests. The analysis could raise questions about whether the government will be able to meet its goal of widespread adoption of health information technology (Israel and Leonard, 10/12).
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Vince Gironda was a man who was way before his time. Hes known as the Iron Guru, but also as the greatest personal trainer and muscle-building expert ever to live. He was a guy that believed steroid users were cheaters. A guy who believed in simplicity over complicated training methods. And he was a guy who were still learning from today.
The people who paved the way for us.
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Reuters reports on a new poll of health executives that indicates that the industry is not adequately prepared to protect patients’ digital health records. Still, according to the Boston Globe, Dr. David Blumenthal, offered a positive view of medical technology in a Wednesday night speech, saying that electronic medical records made him a better doctor.
Reuters: Health Industry Lacks Patient Data Safeguards: Poll New technologies are flooding into the health care world, but the industry is not adequately prepared to protect patients from data breaches, according to a report published on Thursday.
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Sept. 2, 2011 — If you want to get rid of your belly fat, vigorous aerobic exercise such as jogging or brisk walking beats weight or resistance training, a new study shows.
”If you are overweight or mildly obese and want to lose fat — belly fat, visceral fat, liver fat — vigorous aerobic training was better than resistance training,” says researcher Cris Slentz, PhD, an exercise physiologist at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C.