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The kettlebell swing strengthens your core, glutes, hamstrings, quads, back, delts and arms. Research shows that kettlebell swings improves balance and posture, even for elite athletes. When you use a kettlebell, you naturally learn what good posture feels like.

The Official RKC, Military-Grade Kettlebell—Durable, Resilient and Perfectly Designed to Give You Years of Explosive Gains in Strength, Endurance and Power Dragon Door's 10kg/22lb RKC Kettlebell is an Excellent Choice for Young Adults or Women Who Want to Quickly Transform their Physical Shape.

For those of you who are not familiar with the RKC, “RKC” stands for “Russian Kettlebell Challenge”, and the RKC is a School of Strength. RKC Instructors, as administered by Dragon Door and Chief Instructor Pavel Tsatsouline, are the gold standard of kettlebell instructors.

Dragon Door make the absolute best kettlebells around. The shape and grip and finish is superior to any I've tried.

Cast Iron Kettlebells are made out of iron and range widely in size, depending on weight. They have a curved handle that can also vary widely in width as well as diameter. The cast-iron kettlebell is solid, with no hollow space.

Cast iron kettlebells are seen in the industry as the most 'classic' style. This is because they are typically moulded from a single piece of metal. Due to this, the cast iron kettlebell is affordable and offers the best value for money.

The kettlebell is a cast iron or cast steel ball with a handle attached to the top. It is used to perform many types of exercises, including ballistic exercises that combine cardiovascular, strength and flexibility training. They are also the primary equipment used in the weight lifting sport of kettlebell lifting.

The HARD STYLE kettlebell school favors fast, short burst of energy, lifting as much weight as possible in as little time as is necessary. By generating intense tension in the muscles, hard style kettlebell athletes see impressive results in short periods of time.

Domke shoulder bags are highly durable bags, with specialized compartments for transporting cameras and camera equipment. Domke's waterproof or water-resistant bags are designed for photographers, journalists, reporters, and many other professionals who carry camera gear.

Made in USA, “proudly,” as the company says, Domke has been the photographer's choice of camera bags since 1976. Now you can have a special edition, in the popular F2 and F-5XB models.

A loaded march is a relatively fast march over distance carrying a load and is a common military exercise. A loaded march is known as a forced foot march in the US Army.

What does it mean to go rucking? The definition can be as simple as walking around with a backpack on a hike or as difficult as moving fast with all your military gear, loaded for bear, over rugged terrain, infiltrating to your objective. But the terms ruck, hump, or forced march, all really mean getting your gear from A to B in a backpack.

Rucking is an excellent outdoor cardio workout if you hate to run, but still want to get the caloric burn that comes with running. In fact, you can burn about as many calories rucking as jogging. Research shows you can burn around 40-50% more calories than walking.

Walking is a great way to improve or maintain your overall health. Just 30 minutes every day can increase cardiovascular fitness, strengthen bones, reduce excess body fat, and boost muscle power and endurance. ... Unlike some other forms of exercise, walking is free and doesn't require any special equipment or training.

'Let thy food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food', often ascribed to Hippocrates (400 BC), and used to emphasize the importance of nutrition to prevent or cure disease.

"There's no question people can take things a long way toward reversing diabetes, reversing hypertension, even preventing cancer by food choices," Nadeau says.

"We really want to link food and medicine, and not just give away food," says Dr. Rita Nguyen, the hospital's medical director of Healthy Food Initiatives. "We want people to understand what they're eating, how to prepare it, the role food plays in their lives."

A food dose is the amount of any food or beverage consumed that is associated with or leads to a specific health outcome. For example, how many apples must you eat to reduce the risk of a given disease?

As nouns the difference between portion and dose is that portion is an allocated amount while dose is a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.

As verbs the difference between portion and dose is that portion is to divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes while dose is to administer a dose.

Dosage is a related term of portion. As nouns the difference between dosage and portion is that dosage is the administration of a medication etc, in a measured amount; dosing while portion is portion.

Dose (noun) the measured quantity of a therapeutic agent to be taken at one time, a portion of a substance added during a process.

Dose (verb) to give a dose to, especially: to give medicine to; to divide into doses: dose a medicine; to treat with an application or agent.

In the big picture, says Dr. Richard Afable, CEO and president of St. Joseph Hoag Health, medical institutions across the state are starting to make a philosophical switch to becoming a health organization, not just a health care organization.

Nadeau is part of a small revolution brewing across California. The food-as-medicine movement has been around for decades, but it's making inroads as physicians and medical institutions make food a formal part of treatment, rather than relying solely on medications. By prescribing nutritional changes or launching programs such as "Shop with Your Doc," they're trying to prevent, limit or even reverse disease by changing what patients eat.

Research shows that dietary habits influence disease risk. While certain foods may trigger chronic health conditions, others offer strong medicinal and protective qualities. Thus, many people argue that food is medicine. Yet, diet alone cannot and should not replace medicine in all circumstances.

That sentiment echoes the tenets of the Therapeutic Food Pantry program at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, which completed its pilot phase and is about to expand on an ongoing basis to five clinic sites throughout the city. The program will offer patients several bags of food prescribed for their condition, along with intensive training in how to cook it.

“Diet truly is medicine, not just prevention, not just health promotion — literally treatment and reversal of disease,” says Katz. In the same vein, healthy plant-based diets that are higher in whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes, including the Mediterranean diet are linked to numerous protective benefits.

This is a blog confession that is only a surprise to me: I eat too often and too much. I stuff myself like a prize Christmas goose, like a blue-ribbon hog.

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I could fool myself by making delicious and healthy meals on my French carbon steel pans using raw, whole, meats, vegetables, oils, herbs, and spices, only to consume an entire skillet of savory vegetable compote.

I was sitting in Idido's Cafe and Social House and a tall, skinny, guy was rewarding himself with a brick of breakfast crumbcake. Upon leaving, he noted that the heavy, sweet, cake, topped with big sugary crumbles, took him four days to finish.

Let me make this simple and clear: when I was a kid, a snack-sized bag of potato chips and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich was a complete lunch. Then, in my 20s, lunch out came with the single-serve bag of chips that you get at cafeterias and the local Subway. Recently, I would have picked up a full bag of potato chips and down them over one afternoon or lunch.

America's going through a sort of inflation right now and I get it: lunch for me, over the last couple of years, could consist of a submarine sandwich and a full bag of chips. Yeah. The entire concept of portion was completely out of proportion to what a single serving is for breakfast—four over-easy eggs and five slices of bacon—or lunch—two tuna sandwiches and some fries or chips—to an afternoon snack—a bag of kettle chips and a pot of kimchi—and dinner—a double bacon cheeseburger with everything and fries from Bob & Edith's diner. If pizza, a whole pizza; if a sub, a whole sub; if a delicious pan of fresh veggies and chicken pan-fried in olive oil, then the whole pan.

It's true. Now. I am following a strict 23:1 one-meal-a-day intermittent fasting diet with an important caveat: I will not stuff myself like a prize Thanksgiving turkey during that hour-long window. I will aspire to not consume more than 1,500 calories a day and will be comfortable with 1,100-1,300/calories if it makes more sense for me to not have to gorge myself to make the calories. There's always tomorrow. it's not my last meal; it's not my final meal. There will be food tomorrow.

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Via 1492 or 2021, it’s still "civilizing the savages"

It’s pretty easy to reframe America’s uninvited invasion, occupation, and nation-building of Afghanistan. In order to prove just how imperial our having been in Afghanistan for the last 20-years, rebuilding the country in our own image, is, please do the following thought experiment. Please release your imagination and walk with me for a bit… Just replace George W Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden with Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, Christopher Columbus, and Pope Alexander VI; replace US Armed Forces with conquistadors; and replace Afghanis—women, girls, boys, elders—with Aztecs, Mayans, Amerindians, Mapuche people; then, replace soul-savings, civilizing, modernizing, and enculturating, with…. the same words. Does that make more sense as to why supporting the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan in order to save them from themselves is perfectly analogous to supporting the British colonization of the Americas in order to modernize and civilize the American Indians? A reminder, we were at war with Afghanistan during which at least 240,000 Afghans have died, many of them civilians—over the last 20-years; and, how many of those Afghans were women and girls?

I called this article The war in Afghanistan was a long Khan because:

A nod down with your head indicates respect and mutual deference. You do this with strangers to indicate your humility and non-agressiveness. With friends, you nod up to show your happiness at seeing and greeting them. They have brightened your day and you nod up to show that you are uplifted by seeing them.

Some guys seem to do it consciously as a way of communicating regard, diffusing tension, or simply saying hello without needing to stop and chat. Others may do it without even thinking about it, almost as a reflex.

Nodding can also be used as a form of nonverbal greeting or acknowledgement of another's presence; in this context, it is essentially an especially mild form of bowing, with just enough movement to show a degree of respect without additional formality.

In the simplest terms, an upward nod means a casual “hey” or “what's up”. Downward means “Hello, I see that you exist, but we aren't cool enough for anything more than that”. An unspoken rule about the nod is that it is rarely followed by any verbal exchange.

Nodding your head in greeting is a sign of respect, whereas lifting your chin is a sign of familiarity. Nodding the head is like deference to an equal or greater (alpha male). Lifting your chin exposes your neck (vulnerability) which shows you are comfortable with them when vulnerable.

When we greet others from a distance, we give them a slight head nod or we raise our eyebrows very briefly, the latter resulting in an expression known as the ‘eyebrow flash’.

In an ‘eyebrow flash’, the eyebrows rise rapidly for a split second and then drop again. The purpose of the ‘eyebrow flash’ is to draw attention to one’s face so that other facial expressions of communication can be exchanged.

The ‘eyebrow flash’ is used around the world as a long-distance greeting signal except in Japan where it is considered improper and impolite.

Culture can, and often does, modify the meaning our conscious body language gestures and facial expressions. Eyebrow flash is, without doubt, a conscious facial expression that we choose to give only to the people we know.

In linguistics, code-switching or language alternation occurs when a speaker alternates between two or more languages, or language varieties, in the context of a single conversation or situation.

Kill Haole Day is the term for alleged bullying incidents that occurred in most Hawaii schools, when non-white students would harass and attack white students. The incidents saw their height in the late 1970s.

I usually look most people in the eye and smile as I walk past them, usually get a smile back. Going to your question, it's perfectly normal to make eye contact, it's a natural thing to do, kind of like a quick glance before crossing the street.

So what do you do when you're actually walking toward someone? “It seems disingenuous to avoid any eye contact if you know someone,” said Riggio. “There are simple nonverbal cues that can indicate recognition, and that can include brief eye contact with a brief and slight smile and slight nod.

How do you do? Fine! A friendly greetin'.

Morbid obesity is a condition in which you have a body mass index (BMI) higher than 35. BMI is used to estimate body fat and can help determine if you are at a healthy body weight for your size. BMI is not a perfect measurement but it does help give a general idea of ideal weight ranges for height.

Adults with a BMI of 30 to 39.9 are considered obese. Adults with a BMI greater than or equal to 40 are considered extremely obese. Anyone more than 100 pounds (45 kilograms) overweight is considered morbidly obese.

These ranges of BMI are used to describe levels of risk:

Intermittent fasting, also known as intermittent energy restriction, is an umbrella term for various meal timing schedules that cycle between voluntary fasting and non-fasting over a given period. Methods of intermittent fasting include alternate-day fasting, periodic fasting, and daily time-restricted feeding.

What happens to your body when you fast 18 6? “Evidence is accumulating that eating in a six-hour period and fasting for 18 hours can trigger a metabolic switch from glucose-based to ketone-based energy, with increased stress resistance, increased longevity, and a decreased incidence of diseases."

The study found that both an 18-hour and 20-hour fasting window worked equally well for weight loss by helping participants eat less without counting calories.

With 19:5, you fast for 19 hours a day and have an eating window of five hours.

Researchers say intermittent fasting diet can affect the way body burns and stores fat and energy. Researchers are touting a diet that involves fasting for 18 hours each day as a way to stop getting overweight and reducing the chances of contracting everything from cancer to diabetes and heart disease.

Experts suggest that a person needs to follow the basic rules for at least 10 weeks to witness some positive results. Following the diet properly for this period of time will help you shed 3 to 5 kilos of weight (depending on your BMR).

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Sleep duration is based on time asleep and does not include restless or awake time.

A sleep study is a test that records the activity of the body during sleep. There are five main types of sleep studies that use different methods to test for different sleep characteristics and disorders.

What is sleep apnea?

If you have trouble breathing, a BiPap machine can help push air into your lungs. You wear a mask or nasal plugs that are connected to the ventilator. The machine supplies pressurized air into your airways. It is called “positive pressure ventilation” because the device helps open your lungs with this air pressure.

What is the difference between BiPAP and CPAP? While CPAP generally delivers a single pressure, BiPAP delivers two: an inhale pressure and an exhale pressure. These two pressures are known as inhalation positive airway pressure (IPAP) and exhalation positive airway pressure (EPAP).

A BiPAP isn't the only type of ventilator that uses positive pressure to help you breathe. Another common breathing device is the continuous positive airway pressure machine, or CPAP. Both deliver air pressure when you breathe in and breathe out. But a BiPAP delivers higher air pressure when you breathe in.

When is Snoring Dangerous? Loud snoring can be a serious sleep disorder. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a blockage that stops breathing and disturbs sleep. If any of these symptoms occur with loud snoring, speak to your doctor for further evaluation.

The standard in the literature is that healthy sleepers spend more than 90% of the time in bed asleep, so if you're in bed for eight hours, a healthy sleeper might actually sleep for only about 7.2 hours. 8.5 hours of sleep is the new eight hours.

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A literary salon, on the other hand, is a collection of like-minded individuals who gather to explore intellectual topics together, often sharing their own writing. At a book club, the members are focused on a single book; at a literary salon, the gathering focuses on general literature and concepts.

Why is 'Satellites' by Rebecca Curtis featured fiction in The New Yorker? on chrisa.substack.com via Chris Abraham.

If you want to read this short story, check it out here: Fiction July 12 & 19, 2021 Issue Satellites By Rebecca Curtis July 5, 2021.

If you want to listen to the short story, check it out there: The Writer’s Voice: Fiction from the Magazine Rebecca Curtis Reads “Satellites” With Deborah Treisman July 6, 2021.

I'll let you be the judge. “Satellites,” by Rebecca Curtis, is so basic and seems to be a short story interpretation of an Instagram Story, rife will brand names and wealth and buff dudes and ex-wives and tech money hyper-fit nerd billionaire ex-bankers. It's got all of it in there. An opening sentence of a short story, especially, is supposed to be amazing. Here's the first paragraph . . . be inspired! Incipit!

Does this sound like a featured-fiction issue of The New Yorker or Hallmark Channel fan fiction? I didn't need to scroll much further to find this:

One cheap way to write includes dropping brand names as shorthand for where someone is in their prestige and taste. This is just lazy writing. 

Please tell me if this heralded short story that just dropped in my favorite magazine of my entire young life, The New Yorker, gets any better. And good luck to Rebecca Curtis, who is extremely beautiful and, I am sure, extremely talented. I, too, blame COVID-19 for this short story.

I assume Rebecca Curtis and all her editors were Covid-drunk the entire time and, maybe, this is the direct result of a Pfizer vaccination side-effect.

I surely might be mistaken. My taste in fiction might be extremely old-fashioned. If so, I might be an old, but I am not a Boomer. I am still "only" 51.

Starting Strength offers a unique approach to coaching barbell weight training and is written by experienced coaches and sports scientists who designed it specifically for training beginners. Learn how to effectively and safely coach the basic core lifts and their programming in an easy to do, step-by-step process.

The 5x5 workout is when you perform five sets of five repetitions, or as the name implies, 5x5. This practice was originated by the late Olympic weightlifter and coach, Bill Starr, a legend in the world of strength training.

A barbell is a piece of exercise equipment used in weight training, bodybuilding, weightlifting and powerlifting, consisting of a long bar, usually with weights attached at each end.

Paul Hardcastle is a British composer, musician, producer, songwriter, radio presenter and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for his song "19", which went to number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in 1985.

The Concept2 SkiErg makes the sport of Nordic skiing available to everyone. Long recognized as delivering one of the toughest workouts around, Nordic skiing develops both strength and endurance and exercises the legs as well as the arms and core.

The Keiser M3 Indoor Cycle is a gym-quality spin bike. It provides 24 levels of smooth magnetic resistance, controlled with a computer for convenience and precision.

Well-built yet affordable, the LifeSpan TR1200i treadmill is a highly recommended machine. This home treadmill has an incline, comes loaded with workout options, saves exercise data for easy tracking online, and even provides speakers to blast your MP3s.

Kettlebell swing is a basic ballistic exercise used to train the posterior chain in a manner similar to broad jumping. It involves moving the bell in a pendulum motion from between the knees to anywhere between eye level to fully overhead and can be performed either two-handed or using one hand.

The Concept2 Model D rowing machine features an advanced PM5 Performance Monitor, improved ergonomically designed handles, adjustable foot-rests, and a flywheel designed for smooth movement with minimal noise. ... The Concept 2 Rower provides one of the more comprehensive, full-body workouts of any fitness machine.

First-degree burns should heal on their own within a week without causing scars. Second-degree burns should heal in about two weeks. They sometimes leave a scar, but it may fade with time. Third-degree burns can take months or years to heal.

Age-related changes in the spine, such as herniated disks and bone spurs, are the most common causes of sciatica. Obesity. By increasing the stress on your spine, excess body weight can contribute to the spinal changes that trigger sciatica.

Walking is a surprisingly effective approach for relieving sciatic pain because regular walking spurs the release of pain-fighting endorphins and reduces inflammation. On the other hand, a poor walking posture may aggravate your sciatica symptoms.

A pinched nerve in the lower back happens when a nerve in the lower part of the spine becomes compressed by nearby tissue or bone. The pressure may cause pain, numbness, burning, or tingling in the lower back, legs, or feet.

The bench press, or chest press, is an upper-body weight training exercise in which the trainee presses a weight upwards while lying on a weight training bench.