The Myth of Moderate Exercise - TIME

A study shows that exercise leads to successful weight loss, but you may have to work out harder and longer than you were told.

"By the end of the 24-month intervention, the women who managed to lose at least 10% of their starting body weight... — and keep it off — were exercising twice as long as health authorities typically recommend and expending more than twice as many calories through exercise as women who had no change in body weight. The biggest weight losers were active a full 68 minutes a day, five days a week (about 55 minutes a day more than they had been before the trial began), burning an extra 1,848 calories a week."

Can Sugar Substitutes Make You Fat? - TIME

Here's why they might.

Moderate Calif. quake a drill for the `Big One' - Yahoo! News

Yesterday's earthquake may help remind people that the `Big One'is coming.

"To prepare for the "Big One," scientists and emergency planners in the fall will hold what is billed as the largest earthquake drill in the country. It will be based on a hypothetical magnitude-7.8 temblor. Earlier this year, scientists calculated that California faces a 99.7 percent chance of a magnitude-6.7 quake or larger in the next 30 years."

Is There a Laziness Gene? - TIME

If studies of mice are any indication, our propensity to be activemay be encoded in our genes.

"Although the animals' activity levels could not be entirely attributed to genes, researchers calculated that heredity accounted for about 50% of the differences in activity. They also found that activity-promoting genes were dominant traits in 75% of the exercise-loving mice."

5 Surprising Reasons You're Gaining Weight

You may be gaining weight because of these unexpected reasons.

New Yorkers try to swallow calorie sticker shock - Diet and nutrition- msnbc.com

People in New York were in for a surprise as a new law requiring calorie counts to be posted with menu items revealed what no one really wanted to know -- the astoundingly high number of calories found in ordinary restaurant food. A muffin with more calories than a Big Mac suddenly doesn't seem like such a reasonable snack.

‘Dry drowning’ claims 10-year-old’s life - Health - TODAYshow.com

‘Dry drowning’ can happen when a small amount of water gets into the lungs (from bathing/swimming). This can result in delayed drowning that can take place as long a 24 hours after.

Newsvine - Longer lives, less pay — women not saving enough

Women are not saving enough to finance their retirement.

Findings - Deep Down, We Can’t Fool Even Ourselves - NYTimes.com

Very interesting article about studies investigating moral hypocrisy in people.

10 Tips to Avoid Auto Repair Rip-Offs - MSN Autos

How you can avoid being rip-offed by auto mechanics.

Fathering in America: What’s a Dad Supposed to Do? - Psych Central

How to be a good father.

Personal Health - Exercise Guidelines for the Elderly - Personal Health - Jane Brody - NYTimes.com

Exercise is the real fountain of youth.

Need Press? Repeat - ‘Green,’ ‘Sex,’ ‘Cancer,’ ‘Secret,’ ‘Fat’ - NYTimes.com

Apparently, the toxic shower curtain study had a flawed methodology, but the news media failed to realize that because they were too busy spreading the headline-grabbing story like wildfire.

Solution, or Mess? A Milk Jug for a Green Earth - NYTimes.com

The new milk jugs that Sam's Club and Costco are using are more space-efficient and better for the environment. But it may take people a while to get used to pouring them as they require a different technique -- rock-and-pour instead of lift-and-tip.