Why YOU Should Stop Smoking
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If you are a smoker, then you just might be thinking that non-smokers are sanctimonious people who just do not get it. Well, you are absolutely wrong. The problem lies not with non-smokers; rather, it …

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Falling asleep? Energy Boosting Tips
Wednesday, 24 Oct, 2007 – 4:09 | No Comment
Falling asleep? Energy Boosting Tips

Get Enough Iron
A deficiency of iron makes you physically tired because not enough oxygen is being carried around the body. It can also make you depressed, which in turn leaves you feeling even more tired, …

40 Facts About Sleep
Wednesday, 24 Oct, 2007 – 4:05 | No Comment
40 Facts About Sleep

Having trouble dropping off? Maybe our 40 sleep facts will have you snoring in no time!
-The record for the longest period without sleep is 18 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes during a rocking chair marathon. …

10 Secrets Your Gym Don’t Want You To Know
Monday, 22 Oct, 2007 – 4:02 | One Comment
10 Secrets Your Gym Don’t Want You To Know

1. “If you’re still here in April, it’ll be a miracle.” The fitness craze is going gangbusters, with gym attendance up 23% since 2001, to 41.3 million, according to the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub …

A ‘Skinny’ Gene Exists
Thursday, 18 Oct, 2007 – 3:58 | No Comment
A ‘Skinny’ Gene Exists

A team of American researchers say they may have found the “skinny” gene after they were able to manipulate obesity among worms and mice. Published in the Sept. 5 issue of the journal Cell Metabolism by researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the report looks at the role played by a single gene in fat formation.

40 Things You Didn’t Know About Smoking
Sunday, 14 Oct, 2007 – 3:55 | One Comment

As an ex-smoker myself I was even surprised at some of these fact from Coopers Guns

Smoking kills half of all smokers worldwide
Smokers are at increased risk of back pain
Smoking accelerates aging
One person every five minutes …

Causes Of Deaths
Wednesday, 10 Oct, 2007 – 3:52 | No Comment
Causes Of Deaths

This image from The Economist highlights the largest causes of deaths in the world. As you can see disease accounted for 35m of the 55m deaths in 2006

One Click To Help Sufferers Of Breast Cancer
Monday, 8 Oct, 2007 – 5:09 | 2 Comments
One Click To Help Sufferers Of Breast Cancer

One click is all you need to help sufferes of breast cancer. Yes, you have to lift a finger, but that’s about all you need to do. Your click on the “Click Here to Give …

This is what 4 years of exercise can do for you!
Wednesday, 3 Oct, 2007 – 3:48 | No Comment
This is what 4 years of exercise can do for you!

Taken from the impressive progress pictures at John Stone Fitness I decided to put all of these together to create .gif file that really shows of the transition that you can make over a long …