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So I was surfing the internet, like one does, when I came across this article:

Being skinny is no guarantee of a healthy heart
Serious health risks are found equally in fat and thin folks, study shows
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26143255/

Certainly, got my attention.  The article references a recent study that demonstrates that ones weight does not indicate heart risks.  Better indicators of heart risks are age, smoking, and especially inactivity.

“The results underscore how important exercise is for staying healthy, even for people of healthy weight” said Judith Wylie-Rosett, an author of the study.

This is something that Pax has been advocating for years.  As he puts it, a healthy body is not imancipated.  It’s fit.  You don’t want to be merely skin and bones.  You want to have muscle as well as little fat.  You don’t want to look like a skeleton with skin stretched over it.

Hopefully, this study will help move the thinking in the health and wellness fields away from weight loss to exercise.

Lot’s of people ask how to get great abs. One of the important aspects of having great “anything” is to exercise it properly.

For your enjoyment, here’s Pax’s descripton of how to do a proper trunk curl, an exercise that targets the upper abdominals.

There is an art to the trunk curl or crunch exercise (frequently, but improperly called a sit-up). You curl your upper torso toward your feet. The full range of motion is only a short distance. You don’t keep the upper body rigid above the hip. It’s a curling action, not a bending from the hip joint. Optionally doing a slightly different curling motion, you can alternately crossover left elbow to right knee and then right elbow to left knee to target your obloquies.

Shown on the machine below is Helen Bentley, the original Ms. Romper Room, and former news anchor.

Do you want to learn more? Then visit http://www.bodyfortheages.org, and sign up for the Body for the Ages Online Wellness Program.