Today's Walk
45-80 minute walk in the fat-burning zone at 60-70% of your maximum heart rate. Finish your walk at a moderate pace with 5 minutes of cool down at a very easy pace.
Fat-Burning Walk
Advanced Walkers:
Threshold Walk
Exercise:Upper Body
Walk for Your Heart
The New England Journal of Medicine reported a 1999 study that shows 3 hours of brisk walking a week reduced heart disease risk by 35-40% in women. Other studies also say that walking at a moderate pace can keep the heart healthy.
Walking and Heart Health
Nuts and Beans for Your Heart
Researchers from Tulane University reported that eating beans and other legumes at least four times a week lowered heart disease incidence by 19 percent compared to those who ate legumes less than once a week.
Nuts and Beans and Heart Health
Recipe of the Day
Pasta e Fagioli Soup
A classic Italian soup.
Fun
From the Fishing Guide
Recently one of our computers not only crashed, it made a noise that sounded like a heart monitor.
"This computer has flat-lined," a coworker called out with mock horror.
"Does anyone here know how to do mouse-to-mouse?"
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