No, Virginia, there is no spot-reducing. (Apologies to Francis Church.) Your little friends are wrong.
It’s curious that after about a thousand years’ worth of “myth-busting” articles that proclaim there is no spot-reducing, people still believe that the way to eliminate, say, stomach flab, is to do crunches out the wazoo. Within the last week, two [...]
Here’s a curious piece from MSNBC.com’s health section:
Couch potato contentmentAmericans know exercise is good for their health. Yet many are overweight, out-of-shape couch potatoes–and that seems to be just fine with a lot of them, suggests a new nationwide fitness survey.
The article summarized a study by the International Health, Racquet, and Sportsclub Association, a trade [...]