February 2010 Tips

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."
-Will Rogers

"Spry means dropping yesterday like a hot potato, ignoring tomorrow like a nagging neighbor and gratefully living every waking hour of today."
-reader Angie Papadakis, winner of the Spry in a sentence contest

"Follow all the rules, miss all the fun."
-Katharine Hepburn

"We need to give our attention to the simple things that give us pleasure with the same fervor we give to the complex things that drive us crazy."
-author Dawna Markova

What we're really talking about is a wonderful day when no one diets. I mean, why else would you call it Thanksgiving."
-Erma Bombeck

The French spend more time eating than Americans do each day (2-plus hours vs. 1 hour, 15 minutes). Yet their obesity rate is less than half that of the U.S. (12 percent vs. 26 percent).

"Why do they call all the small size candy bars the 'fun sizes'? Wouldn't it be more fun to eat a big one?"
-Anonymous

Two-thirds of insomniacs in a recent study reported sleeping better when doing hour-long Tai Chi sessions three times a week.

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."
-Will Rogers

After two weeks of not smoking, lung function improves by nearly one third.

"You can change who you are without rejecting who you were."
-psychiatrist Dr. Gordon Livingston

It takes more than 90 muscles to execute a simple squat.

"When you're forever looking forward, there's no time left for regrets."
-Joe Kita, author of The Father's Guide to the Meaning of Life

Cutting 2 restaurant meals per month could save you $300+ a year.

"Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect, there will be fish."
-Roman poet Ovid

The New Year's resolution tradition is said to have started in 153 B.C. in ancient Rome.

 "We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing."
-Playwright George Bernard Shaw

12,000 Rhode Island residents lost a collective 84,000 lbs. in a 2008 diet challenge.

"When you're through changing, you're through."
—author and former congressman, Bruce Barton

You inhale and exhale 30,000 times every day.