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May 16th, 2008

My Pick - Healthbolt’s Top 5 Posts.

I suddenly realized that Liberty and I have just passed our 5 month anniversary as Healthbolt bloggers. Wow, how time flies when you’re having fun. And it is fun. Getting to research and post on all the interesting, informative, bizarre, and oddball health and medical things is like a dream come true…
I did some maths […]

By Liz -- 2 comments

May 2nd, 2008

The Best in Health and Wellness: Posts from Across the Channel

Here is an April roundup from the Health and Wellness channel. Enjoy!

There is something for everyone (breastfeeding or not) in the mix of the Breastfeeding 1-2-3 highlights from April 2008:
Free Pattern for Sewing Your Own Crew Neck Over-the-Head Baby Bibs
Judge Denies FLDS Request to Keep Mothers with Nursing Babies
World Health Day 2008: Protecting Health from […]

By Liberty -- 0 comments

April 10th, 2008

Heathbolt’s Healthy Health Links.

I seem to be running into lists everywhere I turn at the moment. So I thought I’d share some of them with you…
Stuck in the office with no time to get to the gym. Not to worry. LifeHack has thrown together a list of 29 Exercises You Can Do At (Or Near) Your Desk. You […]

By Liz -- 6 comments

February 28th, 2008

A Month of Heart Health All Wrapped Up for You

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Another month has come and gone. But February was such an important month, as it focused on recognizing the severity of heart health issues and how to take steps to try and outsmart such an unforgiving and non-biased disease.
Here at Healthbolt, we aimed to give […]

By Liberty -- 0 comments

January 13th, 2008

The Sunday Sidebar.

More Nitpicking…
A few weeks ago The Sunday Sidebar highlighted the life of a professional lice nitpicker who made house calls. Turns out that she’s not the only one making a buck or two out the the hair lice invasion. The Hair Fairies is a franchise of upscale lice removal salons located along boutique restaurants, shops, and […]

By Liz -- 0 comments

October 12th, 2006

For your Convenience: Healthbolt’s Greatest Hits

I’ve added a new category over there and a new page under the “Site Menu” called Essential Healthbolt. Now, everything I’ve ever typed on a keyboard is surely gold, but these are the posts that have garnered huge hit-spikes to the site, lots of comments or have been linked to tons of times.
So if you’re […]

By Wade Meredith -- 0 comments

October 4th, 2006

The Meal You Should Eat When You Need to Be Ready For Absolutely Anything

As humans we all have certain small periods of time (I’m talking hours, here) in our lives that are more demanding of our minds and body: ourselves as a whole. These situations are different in everyone’s lives, depending on an enormous variety of factors, but they include such things as job interviews, triathlons, first dates, […]

By Wade Meredith -- 3 comments

October 2nd, 2006

Aural Fatigue In Modern Pop

An exceptionally comprehensive article over at Austin360 explains why modern records (music mastered in the last ten years) can be hard to listen to even if you like the music. It has to do with physical aural fatigue. It is essentially a story of over-compression on modern music studio masters, which is being done in […]

By Wade Meredith -- 6 comments

September 20th, 2006

The Most Amazing Father. Ever.

I got this email from my dad this morning and it definitely touched me. Make sure you check out the video at the end. What a truly awesome story.
Rick Reilly for Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated Issue date: June 20, 2005, p. 88

I try to be a good father. Give my […]

By Wade Meredith -- 4 comments

September 11th, 2006

Free Personal(ity) DNA Test

Normally, I hate these quiz sites. I honestly don’t care what celebrity I look like, which Bond I would be or what X-men character I could fill in for, but this has won me over. It’s a pretty cool “test” of your “personal DNA” whatever that means. It’s free and it’s fun, but it does […]

By Wade Meredith -- 7 comments