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Healthy Lifestyles

The Mustache, The Dreamer and You

Photo courtesy of www.canada.com A contestant in the World Beard and Mustache Championships.
April 22, 2008

It is a widely known fact that mustaches are better for your health. They increase metabolism, protect against various foreign agents entering your bloodstream, and even in some cases have warded off thousands of malaria-infected mosquitoes in the Cote d’Ivoire in the late summer of 1945.

Sure, if you were to take those claims and process them through modern science or any believable logistics you’d find out they were indeed false. I might have just outright lied to you. In fact, yes, I did just lie to you. And while that sort of thing is frowned upon in journalism (cough, 24 hour cable news networks), I felt beholden to push the limits of the mustache in both print and perception because I believe that it can and will be done. People around the world are doing it, so why shouldn’t I?

For example, what if a mustache had the power to change an entire month? Guess what? It does. If you visit www.movember.com, you will see men

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Once You Go Green...

April 8, 2008

On March 25, satellite images revealed a huge shelf of Antarctic ice had collapsed, leaving a “Connecticut-sized” shelf behind “hanging by a thread,” scientists say. Part of the Wilkins Ice Shelf, it covered 5,000 square miles until it started to cra

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Run, Drink and Be Merry

March 26, 2008

By Julie Black, iPlayOutside.com



If you’ve been looking for an excuse to get outside and exercise ... look no further my friends. The long standing U.S. tradition of beer and runners dates back to the oldest marathon in Ameri

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The 100-mile-diet — Healthy and Always Local

March 11, 2008

Amy Collins turned to buying locally grown food out of frustration and guilt. “It ticks me off, at myself, that I’m not able to have a garden and grow my own food for my family,” says the 36-year-old who home-schools her daughter in

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The Art of Regaining One’s Lost Sanity

February 28, 2008

For whatever reason, we all sometimes feel a bit crazier than other times. Chemicals get unbalanced. Too much stress. Important things happening all the time. Sometimes you just talk to yourself a bit more than other times.

Whatever probl

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Healthy Lifestyles Poll

How well does beer and running go together?
Like PB & J Like Oil and Water

 
Rio Grande ? Huntington
Appalachian Film Festival
Option 22
Poobah
Back Bay Seafood
His & Hers ? Mustache Issue
Pod ? Tony Lockard
Blind Side w/Britny Fox Apr 26
 
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