"Everyone should check with their doctor before starting this or any exercise program. Unusual dizziness, severe shortness of breath, or tightness, pressure or burning in the chest with the exercise activities should cause you to stop the activities and obtain medical advice."

Fråga är om inte unusual dizziness krävs för att köpa en böjd plastpinne för $29.95.

/Alan

“The contest is based on local history from the 19th century. Ronkainen the brigand, who had influence in the region in those days, is said to have accepted in his troop only those men who proved their worth on a challenging track. In those days, it was also common practice to steal women from neighboring villages.” The full set of rules can be summed up like this: The man carries his woman (who he does not have to be married to: “the wife to be carried can be your own, the neighbor’s or you may have found her farther a field; she must however, be over 17 years of age.”) around the track. The track has water obstacles, dry obstacles and multiple types of surfaces.

7 000 people, or more annually attends this event. It also gets TV, radio and newspaper publicity in Europe. There are even qualifying competitions in Estonia and Sweden. In addition to the individual competitions there are team competitions that require team members to drink the official “wife carrying drink” at the exchange points.

Roth notes that children and the elderly need to get plenty of nutrition. But we adults who work in offices need to quit eating like lumberjacks. "The middle 50 or 60 percent of the life span is when people take in more calories than they need to," he says.

You may be asking yourself: Why have I never heard this before?

A couple of reasons. One is that the official source of nutritional advice is the United States Department of Agriculture. The USDA exists to promote farming and farmers. If America went on a diet, farmers would go bankrupt.

But there's another reason you haven't heard this before and this reason is equally valid: It's just too depressing. "People just like to eat. It's one of life's pleasure," says Roth. "Solid as the data are, people just do not want to give up their food."

Not all people. Some health nuts actually do consume as few calories as a lab monkey. Those pale vegans with the sunken eyes and the bad attitudes are probably going to live till age 90. And they deserve to.

But I have a solution that works for real people in the real world. It's something that I have worked out from a combination of a deep study of the scientific literature as well as my own years of work in the exciting field of newspapers. I call it the Journalist's Diet.

The Journalist's Diet has the two main elements of a balanced diet: coffee and beer. The coffee revs you up, the beer calms you down. What could be more balanced than that?

Not only that, but both are fat- free. One, coffee, is devoid of calories as well.

Psycho trainer method of inspiration? Yes, there are two parts to the psycho trainer method of getting HUGE quickly:

1. A sadistic partner. 2. Some sadistic exercise methods. Make no mistake about it, this workout is going to hurt, and it will hurt a lot ( You'll learn later that this is a good thing. ) There are a few general benchmarks to the workouts that will let you know if you're doing them correctly.

Signs of a good set:

It really sucks and hurts (This is a general guideline, below we'll outline what constitutes proper hurt and suck).

You can't move that well the next day after doing an exercise.

You can't move that well two days after doing an exercise.

During an exercise you hear weird animal noises, then realize your making them.

Your face changes more than 4 shades of red, purple, or black during a set.

You see stars, get tunnel vision, and then come-to with a bar resting comfortably on your neck.

Ugly men, historically, have worked a little harder to attract the opposite sex, whether it be by amassing great wealth and taking over entire countries, or picking up a guitar and insisting on becoming a rock star.

Whatever an ugly man's methods to woo the ladies, the primary obstacle here, as always, is still the ugliness. But now, dog-faced men can increase their sex appeal without wealth, surgery or exercise. According to a British survey, all they have to do to get the girls is wear tank tops and show off their sweaty armpits.

A study released last week at a University of Northumbria conference confirms that women find ugly men more attractive if they can smell the natural pheromones emanating from a man's armpit.