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Dream Anatomy: A National Library of Medicine Exhibit

Dream Anatomy Provided by the National Library of Medicine “shows off the anatomical imagination in some of its most astonishing incarnations, from 1500 to the present.” There are some gorgeous pieces ranging from educational to entertaining. Even better, the work is in the public domain!

The invention of the printing press in the 15th century-and the cascade of print technologies that followed-helped to inspire a new spectacular science of anatomy, and new spectacular visions of the body. Anatomical imagery proliferated, detailed and informative but also whimsical, surreal, beautiful, and grotesque — a dream anatomy that reveals as much about the outer world as it does the inner self.

Over the centuries anatomy has become a visual vocabulary of realism. We regard the anatomical body as our inner reality, a medium through which we imagine society, culture and the human condition.

Found via Boing Boing

Posted in Exercise & Health, General & Tagged: medicine, science

NutritionData’s Nutrition Facts Calorie Counter

NutritionData’s Nutrition Facts Calorie Counter” tells you, in simple terms, what’s good and bad about the foods you eat, and helps you select foods that best meet your dietary needs.”

Posted in Exercise & Health, Quick Links

Lift Your Mood

Men’s Health provides yet another great article, Lift Your Mood explains how your state of mind affects your workout, and how to best take advantage of your mood.

What you’re feeling can make you put less into your workout–or cause you to skip it altogether. But those same moods can be used to help your lifting session. How? Most strong emotions–anger, anxiety, frustration–cause your adrenal glands to release adrenaline and more than 30 other hormones into your system. “This hormonal surge causes your heart to beat faster, relaxes your bronchial tubes to improve breathing, converts fat and protein into extra blood sugar, and even slows down your digestion to improve muscular energy,” says Richard Marsella, Ph.D., author of Welcome to Stress Management. “Whether you feel like exercising or not, your body is already getting a temporary boost that could enhance your workouts.”

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Best Foods for Men

I have picked up the last few issues of Men’s Health and have found it to be a great source of information about workouts, eating and well, general men’s health issues. The most recent one had a great article, which they have now put on-line: Best Foods for Men. Not only do the editors provide nutritional information on their recommended foods, in many they tell you why they chose the item and how the nutritional breakdown affects you. An example:

Best Cracker
Pepperidge Farm Hearty Wheat
Dense and crunchy. And not in the Swedish-cardboard-cracker kind of way, either. Per 16-g serving: 80 calories, 2 g protein, 10 g carbohydrates, 3.5 g fat (0 g saturated), 1 g fiber, 100 mg sodium

The categories are:

• The Bakery
• 6 Best Bar Munchies
• 9 Best Breakfasts
• Canned Food
• Condiments
• Dairy Case
• The Deep Freeze
• Meat Cooler
• Sandwich Fixings
• Snack Aisle
• Soda Aisle
• 6 Best Square Meals

I really do need to subscribe…

Posted in Exercise & Health, Food & Drink & Tagged: food, health