I had heard many times that in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle (weight, exercise, mental status) a rule of thumb is to take at least 10,000 steps everyday. In some ways that sounds like a lot, but as much as I walk in a day I thought I’d be close. As I was browsing around Amazon I found a very cool pedometer that counts steps, estimates distance, calories burned and keeps a record of the last seven days measurements.
News briefs are a collection of interesting news stories…
Brief 1: Finally some decent news for those of us men on the higher end of the weight scale. We cannot really wear tight Lycra bike shorts, Speedo swim briefs (no one except for competitive swimmers should anyway), or vertical stripes, but it seems that heavier men actually have heavier paychecks than their skinnier counterparts. Of course the thinner guys get more women since they don’t care about how much a man makes. The news is not so good for women whose paychecks are inversely proportional to their weight.
I know that the title gives the impression that the view is from a couch potato, but that is not the view. I spent the last week confined to the house getting over the flu. My doctor believed that it was H1N1, but did not bother to run any blood work since the results would not be available until after I was cured or dead. That is not a quote, but the reality. I’ll have to admit that it was the worst flu that I have experienced, but the deaths that I have read about all seemed to be caused by the secondary issues. My condition settled into my chest and that is what my doctor treated.
