The internet has brought many things; news, views and sights from sources we've never had available before. Here's this week's round up. And don't forget, if you or a family member has a medical condition, protect yourself with a Mediband - so medical assistance can assess your needs quickly.

 

1. To drink or not to drink.  There are a few articles running around the interwebs at the moment discussing the virtues - or not -of drinking 8 glasses of water a day. The consensus, and a  few reports noted here suggest the 8 glasses a day thing is a bit of a myth. Propagated by the bottled water industry? The standard advice is to drink when you're thirsty.

2. When is it too much exercise? We all know we need to exercise, but where's the line in the sand. When is too much exercise too much? The Mayo Clinic people have reviewed over 50 studies, as detailed here, and they've discovered that too much exercise can damage the lining of the heart muscles by tearing them too much and not allowing recovery. The optimum exercise is about 20kms a week in terms of running.

3. What Navy Seals do for exercise.  Those Navy Seal guys seem pretty fit. So what do they do to get and stay fit? It's all a bit blokey, but the nub seems to be setting goals, go beyond the goals daily and compete. The compete thing is interesting, as the article says, everyone pushes themselves harder in every endeavour, at home at the office and at the gym when you're competing against someone.

4. What do those egg carton labels mean? Anyone cruising the supermarket aisles and/or reading the press will know that packaging labels are a nonsense of definition, jargon, chemical symbols (rather than names) and weasel words. Do you know what E-10 means? And the humble egg carton is no different, with more of an emphasis on the weasel words side of things. 'Natural' and 'free range' is a matter o definition apparently. Here are the common terms and what they really mean in producer language.

5. The best seats on the plane.  So, travelling more than 6 hours and want to know where the best seat on the plane is? For your health, it's the aisle seat. The details are here, but the studies suggest that window-seat lovers move less and therefore have more chance of deep vein thrombosis. If you want to sleep, don't choose the plenty of legroom seats near the galley and bathrooms - you'll be bumped and stood over by everyone on the plane. If you want peace and quiet don't sit near the bulkhead seats reserved for those with babies and bassinets...

It seems even dogs love mountain bike riding...

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