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October 2009 Archives
2:14 PM Fri, Oct 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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I've been busy working nights in our Sports department this week, so today I'm going to give you a little re-run. Last year, I posted "This Halloween, don't do a drive-by" to encourage families to walk to their trick-or-treat destinations......
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7:20 AM Thu, Oct 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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People with high blood pressure can benefit from a good night's sleep, according to the Health & Nutrition Letter from Tufts University's Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. "A new study, among the first of its kind to objectively......
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12:01 AM Wed, Oct 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Plan on watching the World Series starting Wednesday night? (even if it's just to root against the Yankees?) If the series goes to 7 games, and the average game last more than 3.5 hours, that's a lot of sitting on......
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8:06 PM Tue, Oct 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Donita Naylor Journal staff writer Three Rhode Island State Police troopers have swept a national law-enforcement fitness contest, taking six first-place awards in the 2009 LawFit Trooper Challenge in Fairfax, Va. Competing for Rhode Island were G. Thomas Chabot......
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6:54 AM Tue, Oct 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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It's time to exercise some common sense as flu season begins, writes registered nurse Patricia Stumpf in the autumn issue of Tale Health Care, a newsletter of the Yale Health Plan. "Many people think of the flu as an uncomplicated......
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1:36 AM Mon, Oct 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal photo / Sandor Bodo Iyengar yoga students hold "plow pose" -- modified with a chair, in this file photo One of the most-often asked questions I get is from people who want to try a new form......
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1:01 AM Fri, Oct 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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The onset of winter weather can trick runners into dehydration, writes Kim Mueller, a registered sports dietitian and competitive endurance athlete who provides nutritional counseling and meal planning to athletes all around the world. Even in the coldest weather, runners......
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7:19 AM Thu, Oct 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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Want an easy, cheap and versatile way to work out at home? Install a chin-up bar. For around $20, a doorway pull-up bar gives you a about five different ways to exercise. 1. Chin-ups are resistance training because they......
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1:01 AM Wed, Oct 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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Tai Chi on the beach in Middletown. Frieda Squires photo. Tai Chi is often described as meditation in motion, but it might also be called medication in motion, according to the Harvard Women's Health Watch, a newsletter published by......
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12:01 PM Tue, Oct 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
In a keynote speech this this weekend's New England Iyengar Yoga Conference in Providence, John Schumacher, a yogi from Washington D.C., extolled his fellow practitioners to "show something beautiful" to the world and reach out to give the measure of......
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10:52 AM Mon, Oct 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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Conservationists are blazing new trails in one of the wildest places in southern New England, the Pawcatuck Borderlands, where Rhode Island and Connecticut meet. More than 70 hikers registered to walk the Flintlock Loop Trail which opened officially Oct.......
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6:19 AM Fri, Oct 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
This combination AP photo shows, at left, an undated and digitally altered Ralph Lauren advertisement of model Filippa Hamilton displayed in a Japanese department store and posted on several Web sites, and, at right, a runway photo of Hamilton......
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1:01 AM Thu, Oct 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Not Your Mama's Roller Derby What sweet irony you'll find at the Rhode Island Convention Center this weekend! My blogging partner, Pam Cotter reports that more than 400 people have signed up for the New England Iyengar Yoga Conference......
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6:25 AM Wed, Oct 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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Can you lower your cholesterol readings through exercise? Abnormal cholesterol levels such as high LDL cholesterol or low HDL cholesterol are a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke. Many people with high cholesterol levels have a family history,......
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7:47 AM Tue, Oct 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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Sunday on the Burdickville stretch of the Pawcatuck River Quality leaf peeping doesn't require a long drive to the Berkshires. For outdoor enthusiasts like Jim Cole, the author of Paddling Connecticut and Rhode Island, southern New England offers some......
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1:29 PM Fri, Oct 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By MEGAN K. SCOTT Associated Press Writer When it comes to exercise, most of us are looking for a shortcut, a way to lose weight and firm up without spending endless hours in the gym. So a funky pair of......
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6:23 PM Thu, Oct 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal video / Andrew Dickerman Bicycle manufacturers show off their latest frames, parts, clothing and accessories in Roger Williams Park, Providence, where cyclo-cross races will be held this weekend. Company representatives and riders have traveled from across the......
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2:56 PM Thu, Oct 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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The economy may be bad right now, yoga, it appears, is thriving during the downturn. More than 400 people have signed up for the New England Iyengar Yoga Conference at the Rhode Island Convention Center on Friday, Saturday and Sunday,......
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12:48 PM Thu, Oct 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Felice Freyer Journal staff writer Rajiv Kumar, the Brown medical student who founded Shape Up RI, has received a Community Health Leaders Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation -- 1 of 10 people around the country chosen for......
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1:24 PM Wed, Oct 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The East Bay Bike Path will be designated as a Rail-Trail Hall of Fame trail by the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy on Friday, it was announced Wednesday by the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. The......
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8:34 AM Wed, Oct 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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New York Times video Born to Run, Christopher McDougall's new book, answers the question most runners eventually ask: Why am I in pain? McDougall studied the life and running habits of the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico's Copper Canyon, perhaps......
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1:01 AM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal photo / Frieda Squires Mary Bisson, who works at Maplewood Farm in Portsmouth, looks for rocks as the potatoes are pulled from the ground by a harvester. Stephen Anderson and his aunt, Judy Carvelho, grow potatoes and......
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9:51 AM Mon, Oct 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal file photo / Sandor Bodo If in about 10 days you're walking through downtown Providence and see a lot of people with yoga mats, wearing loose-fitting pants, flip-flops or earth shoes and shawls, it won't be a......
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7:43 AM Sat, Oct 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Volunteers are needed for the Oct. 10 and 11 Providence Cyclo-Cross Festival, a USA Cycling-sanctioned professional and amateur cyclo-cross race event. It's part of the Interbike Festival events that same weekend in the city. Narragansett Bay Wheelman has put out......
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8:47 AM Fri, Oct 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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Mary Murphy photo Southern New England's pumpkin crop took a hit from the summer's wet weather, but farmers who planted seed around Independence Day are bringing their sweet pumpkins to market now. Manfredi's Farm in Westerly is selling just-picked......
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5:14 AM Thu, Oct 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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I'm the mother of two rapidly maturing boys, so we spend a lot of time in my house talking about being "tough." Worried about how you'll look in braces? That's nothing: Jack Lambert played to a national audience in the......
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