The Great Ganesha

What are YOU looking at? Oh, my clone? In that case, it’s fine. Keep on looking. The FDA (after a few years of debate) says that food from cloned animals and their progeny is safe to eat. Looks like this thing has been on the back-burner for a while (pun intended, I apologize, I couldn’t [...]

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No – I’m not insulting anyone here, so calm down. I suffer from the occasional migraine myself, and was intrigued by this new treatment which I read in (of all things) Men’s Health. It advocates crushing a chili in your hand and literally, rubbing it into your nostrils. There’s even an all-natural nasal spray that [...]

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The Finisher’s Medal, front and back Well, folks, we did it! 26.2 miles! My second marathon, the wife’s first. Here’s our route, freshly uploaded from the GPS into Google Earth. Temperatures were in the low 60s with fog, which made it perfect for me and perfect for running. In fact, it was so foggy, I [...]

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If relations between your friends have sunk to a new low because you’re blaming them for your obesity, listen up. Just because you’re fat, it doesn’t mean you’re unfit. Particularly, if you’re a biker. …cycling is a lot more forgiving of body type and age than running. The best cyclists going up hills are those [...]

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You better watch out. An article in today’s Times talks about a study that showed that obesity is contagious. Obesity can spread from person to person, much like a virus, researchers are reporting today. When a person gains weight, close friends tend to gain weight, too. Their study, published in the New England Journal of [...]

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If Elvis were Indian, he’d definitely go for this. I mean, there’s a reason why the pan-fried, peanut butter, bacon and honey sandwich is called The Elvis. A company called (aptly) P.B. Loco has come out with Peanut Butter – the Asian Curry Spice edition. Incidentally, if you go to About.com’s “Elvis Presley’s Favorite Foods” [...]

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Perusing last month’s Men’s Health I came across an ad for one of those super-duper, miraculous pills which, when you just have 150 of them (each costing $1), you lose all the fat on your body. As it is, they are all ripoffs. The makers are just aiming to exploit overweight or extra-vain people who [...]

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Picture courtesy: Andy Day An article by Alec Wilkinson in last week’s double-issue of the New Yorker is about parkour – the art of running up walls, going down the rails (as opposed to the stairs) and jumping across rooftops. As it says in the magazine: Parkour, a made-up word, cousin to the French parcours, [...]

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Last Thursday, I was complaining like hell. Well, I have to admit, despite high mileages this week, in fact, some of the highest I have done in a long time, the run wasn’t so bad. Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday was 5-7-6, respectively. Not much, I know, but we’re building it slow and easy. It’s the first marathon for [...]

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Apparently, running when you’re injured is good for you. An article ($) in January’s NYT talks about running through injuries and how it helps them heal faster. Now, before you naysayer couch-potato-types jump on me, it’s not like you should run with shattered kneecaps and fractured tibias, but you can run with certain not-so-serious (that’s [...]

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