Should You Give Honey to a Baby? No!
Honey Health Warning – Do Not Give Honey to Babies Honey is one of nature’s medicines and human have been harvesting it for thousands of years. However a reminder was issued today after reports of botulism being on the rise. Babies are unable to fight off the botulism bacteria during their first year and botulism [...]
4 Influential and Inspirational Sport and Fitness Icons
Originally Published on MotleyHealth.com, and then discarded. Not enough people were reading this wonderful little article, so it was ruthlessly torn from its parent like a crying baby from the clutches of its mother. It was only in the late twentieth century, during the post-war period, that athletes and sports persons really became celebrities in their [...]
Baseball Fitness from the New York Yankees
In November 2009 the New York Yankees won their first Baseball World Series title since 2000, beating Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday, 7-3. They persevered and they were determined, a lot like the ’98 team” Yankees Manager Brian Cashman The team played excellently together and proved that their fitness regime and baseball training skills are certainly [...]
Should Footballers Take Lessons from Jeet Kune Do?
I originally wrote this blog after watching England play in the 2010 Wordcup. It is a half-hearted post, but may have some element of truth in it. My thought was that one of the reasons that the “Samba Boys” do so well is because they have a seemingly less structured approach to the game. Maybe fluidity can [...]
Coalition Scraps Minimum Wage and Introduces Forced Labour
Coalition government decides to make long term unemployed do community work or lose benefits. So the plan is, anyone that has been claiming benefit for too long will have to sweep streets, cut grass and do other council work for free while the councils sack staff to save money. Enforced labour? Sounds like it.
Just Discovered Windows Health Spaces!
Windows runs its own blogging / networking site called spaces, so today I set up a Windows Health Space. I did think about calling Bing Fitness or something as I ended up there after looking at Bing search. It looks quite interesting, amazing really to think that so few people talk about it. Everyone plays [...]
The Stranglers – Golden Brown – Video on Youtube
YouTube is so great. Just saw this, I think for the first time. Not sure if I have seen the video before. Seems familiar. never had MTV. 1981, I was only 7. No More Heroes, I remember that. No idea why. I remember listening to No More Heroes in a pub in Preston, probably 1993, [...]
The England Germany Debacle at the World Cup 2010
What happened to England? And how could a goal in a World Cup final be disallowed by a referee? Yesterday England crashed out of the World Cup after Germany beat them 4-1. Germany initially dominated the game, scoring two goals which simply made a mockery of the English defence.
Newsreader Announces that Summer Has Officially Started
Today I was told by a lass on the tele that today was the official start of summer. Now, call me a traditionalist, but I am sure that summer used to start on the Summer equinox, and that June 21st (or is it June 22nd) was actually the official start of the summer season. So, [...]