LIBBY TRICKETT SCOFFS FRIED CHICKEN - Saturday 22nd May 2010

HOT NEWS FROM FROM THE ALLITERATIVE KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN WEBSITE
'Fast food franchise KFC is injecting $35 million to launch its latest menu addition, Cayan Grill chicken, with a campaign headed up by Olympic swimmer Libby Trickett.'

'Trickett has taken on the role of brand ambassador for the new line, appearing in a series of 30 second tv ads which launch today, and due to make appearances at some promotional events.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvBhj4GAipY

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This would have to take the biscuit; fresh faced, slim and athletic, we're now seeing Mrs Trickett on TV selling her soul and her body to the junk food industry. I expect her to balloon out over the course of the campaign and take on the shape of a true-blue Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pepsi Max customer.

On the face of it, the Cayan Grill Chicken looks like good wholesome food. ButI suspect Kentucky Fried Chicken isn't greatly interested in Cayan Grill Chicken. It's the upselling and the supersizing that makes the money, the chips and the Pepsi.

I thought sport was meant to be character building. Maybe I was wrong.

On the track
A modest workout on the stepper. 30 minutes for 3873 calories and 507 steps.

In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and order chips with your next bucket of fat.

John Miller
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com

HEART FOUNDATION BIOMETRIC SURVEY - Friday 21st May 2010

Read that the Heart Foundation is working with the Australian Bureau of Statistics to conduct a comprehensive national health survey that includes biomedical data such as actual height, weight, blood pressure, blood cholesterol and glucose levels.

Another vapid of vapids. Same old same old. Ho hum, ho hum.

This is the sort of data every doctor should be supplying to a national repository as a matter of course.

I wrote to the PR woman at the Heart Foundation for a list of the tests. She gave me the brush off and told me to contact the Bureau of Statistics.

However, I'll bet you my last razoo they won't be measuring how aerobically fit people are, despite a low level of aerobic fitness being the principal driver of metabolic dysfunction.

They won't measure strength and flexibility either.

These people don't want to get their hands dirty.

They won't measure levels of homocysteine or C-reactive protein, markers of metabolic dysfunction more appropriately targeted than cholesterol.

Whilst I notice they're measuring weight, I'll also bet they don't measure percent body fat. They'll go for body mass index.

This is just more academic busy work designed to give someone a PhD.

On the track
A good session out early with the boys.

In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and wait for someone from the Bureau of Statistics to come round to your house and run the ruler over you.

John Miller
www.fitandhealthyonline.com
www.globalbackcare.com

HEART FOUNDATION TICK PROGRAM - Thursday 20th May 2010

Found a brochure I picked up from McDonalds a while ago announcing that the National Heart Foundation had sold its tick (and its soul) to McDonalds.



Like an earlier blog I wrote about academics getting into bed with drug companies, this too fits into the lying-down-with-dogs category.



One half of me says that if you eat mince meat, lettuce and tomato at home it's OK; the other half says that if you buy it from a junk foodery it's not.



The Heart Foundation has taken a very soft line with McDonalds.

It cannot be forgiven for turning a blind eye to the massive damage that fast food industries do to the arteries that the Foundation goes to such length to protect. A couple of innocuous products doesn't stand as penance for the rest of the stuff this conglomerate and its independent distributors sells.



But why would anyone be recommending bread rolls stuffed with meat or chicken and a bit of salad? This country is awash with people who eat too much bread. It fattens them up. White bread at that. The Heart Foundation must be attracted to the dough.



Chicken nuggets, they've given them the tick too. Goodness knows what's in them, compressed bits of mashed chicken smeared with fat and bread crumbs. I don't think that's the sort of diet the Heart Foundation should be recommending. I betcha they don't serve them at board meetings.



The wraps look OK, but the problem is that as soon as anyone goes into a McDonaldry as likely as not, as well as something nutritious they'll also come out with a bucket of fat in the form of chips and a fatshake.



You'd think that giving the tick to a company that probably does more than just about any other company on earth to fatten up people up would leave a nasty taste in the mouth of all those surgeons.


Anyway, what can you expect of a medical charity that also gives its tick of approval to



- bread


- bircuits


- breakfast biscuits


- fruit bars


- pasta


- chips


- cheese


- ice cream


- oils


- pies and pasties?



And in case you missed it on their website, here it is again.



On the track
No track today. It's getting colder and I appear to be getting lazier.

In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and eat your mince meat and salad at home.

John Miller

http://www.fitandhealthyonline.com/
http://www.globalbackcare.com/

BACK AND HIP PAIN - Wednesday May 19th 2010

There's an epidemic of musculo-skeletal dysfunction in our community. Ask any group of people 'Who here has either got a crook back, stiff neck, 'cold' shoulder, bung hip, game leg, dicky knee or sore wrist?’ and at least 50% of people will put their hand up.

The good news is that in 80% of cases it's not a medical problem, it's a fitness problem. Chances are you're not strong enough or flexible enough to keep your body in good alignment.

The solution? You need a good strength and flexibility training program to straighten yourself up.

There are two key principles involved here.

1. Tight muscles pull bones out of alignment. That’s the bad news. The good news is that by loosening tight muscles the bones will go back into alignment.

If you do the right exercises, long enough and often enough, there’s a better than even chance you’ll straighten yourself up. Poor function will be restored to good. You’ll start to feel better. Your pain will go away. All you have to do is find the right exercises.

2. The cause of the pain is rarely at the site of the pain – so a rub down and a hot wheat bag on the spot where it hurts may give you some temporary relief but won’t treat the cause of the problem. Over the years it will just get worse.

With lower back pain there’s a chain of dysfunction. Tight calf, hamstring and buttock muscles take your pelvis out of alignment. When that happens, the bones above it are taken out of alignment as well.

It puts pressure on the muscles, tendons, ligaments and discs in your lower back. They ‘feel the pinch.’ You tell people you’ve got a crook back.

Next week I’ll give you an exercise to loosen up your calf and hamstring muscles and get you sitting up straighter. Do that and you square your pelvis up and take the pressure off the bones of your lower back.

Then there’s that better than even chance that millimeter by millimeter, your lower back pain will start to go away.

On the track
Back walking with the boys.

In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and if it’s weak strengthen it; if it’s tight loosen it.

John Miller

www.globalbackcare.com

FEELING BETTER - Tuesday 15th May 2010

I'm feeling better.

I'm up and about, dehydrated, thinner but definitely better. By tomorrow I should be as right as rain.

The body does indeed have remarkable recuperative powers.

On the track
No track.

In the meantime get ready to get back on the track.

John Miller
www.fitandhealthyonline.com

GO BACK TO BED - Monday 17th May 2010

I'm still crook.

I got up just before 6.45am and went out the front to tell my mates I wouldn't be going with them today.

Then I went back to bed.

Christine said I should go to the doctor, but I don't feel like paying $80 to be told I'm crook. Maybe I should have gone to the chemist. I've seen adverts in toilets at airports for stuff that's mean to fix you up when you're crook.

So I just stayed in bed - and the loo. I can feel myself gradually getting better.

On the track.
Only track today was between the bed and the loo. I don't know where all this water is coming from. I've lost 3Kg.

In the meantime lie low and let nature run its course. The body has remarkable recuperative powers; stimulate them - sometimes with exercise, sometimes with rest.

John Miller
www.fitandhealthyonline.com

STILL CROOK - Sunday 16th May

I'm still crook. Up and down half the night. Don't feel like eating. I'm like an animal. When they get sick they go away and hide for a couple of days.

I'm hiding in bed and in the loo. My feet are cold, my bones ache.

On the track
No track today, no way.

In the meantime lie down and go to sleep.

John Miller
www.fitandheathyonline.com