Reviewed: Hoopalicious Storm Hooper, Hoopnotica Fitness TravelHoop, the Original Hula Hoop by Wham-O, Canyon Weighted Hula Hoop. Truth is, when I planned this review of fitness hoops and attended a 90-minute hooping class in Santa Monica last Sunday, I did not know that hooping had become a giant fitness trend and that Marisa Tomei used it to get in shape for her role as a stripper in the Oscar-nominated film "The Wrestler." But I can tell you that it is a smile-inducing, easy-yet-challenging, sweat-drenching, skill-building core workout for an uncoordinated male, and that when I woke up Monday morning I swear my gut had shrunk by an inch or two. And having seen "The Wrestler," I can also tell you that I recommend the products below to every woman in the universe.
Inspiring Girls To Engineer America's Future
National Engineers Week is an annual event that aims to energize youngsters about engineering. Leslie Collins, executive director of the National Engineers Week Foundation, explains how "Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day" gets girls fired up about engineering careers.
A tragic wake-up call for young women
Kristi Winters Walker had two boys, 2 and 4, and a newborn, who was delivered early in November when his momÂ's back pain became excruciating. Doctors thought she might have a pregnancy-related liver complication. She had breast cancer.
Health Coverage for All -- Is It on the Way?
On Friday, the New York Times revealed that major players in the nation’s health care debate -- including big insurance companies, lobbyists representing consumers, physicians, hospitals and the pharmaceutical industry -- may soon unveil a consensus plan advocating comprehensive legislation that requires every American to carry health insurance.
At the center of this collection of lions and lambs -- termed the “workhorse group†in a memorandum obtained by the Times -- is Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., a prominent advocate of health care reform.Here is what ABC News Medical Editor Dr. Timothy Johnson had to say about the developments:
“Today’s report in the New York Times confirms earlier reports (and many rumors) that key meetings about health care reform are being orchestrated by Sen. Kennedy and his staff. The idea of ‘insurance for all’ would certainly please insurance companies -- 45-50 million new customers!
“However, unless such an expansion/requirement is also accompanied by true reform -- cost and quality control -- it will be a bailout rather than true reform. Almost all experts agree that about a third of the 2.6 trillion we spent on health care last year (and rising every year) is ultimately wasted -- fraud, unnecessary testing and treatment, etc. So if we simply expand coverage and don't get control of costs and quality we will miss a golden opportunity for reform.â€
Baltimore health officials declare influenza alert
With the number of positive influenza tests rising sharply in the city, Baltimore health officials declared a flu alert yesterday. "We're really seeing sustained transmission of flu in Baltimore. Now is the time to protect yourself," said the city's health commissioner, Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein. Sentinel hospitals reported that 12 percent of flu tests last week came back positive, more than twice the rate for the previous week. There have been no deaths, but the Johns Hopkins Children's Center is treating a teenager who is critically ill with flu. "This is not just the sniffles. It can be very serious," Sharfstein said. Residents are urged to get flu shots, to wash their hands frequently, cough into a tissue or sleeve and stay home if they're sick. For more: www.baltimorehealth.org/flu
PAKISTAN: Fatal Polio Thrives on Conflict Along Porous Border
PESHAWAR, Feb 20 (IPS)The battle to eradicate polio in Pakistan has become more complicated.
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