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Online Investing: Stocks, Personal Finance & Mutual Funds at SmartMoney.com Food etiquette rules that might surprise you (Illustration by Edwin Fotheringham) You have good manners, right? After all, you (usually) keep your elbows off the table and say "Please pass the salt." But when you head abroad, things get a little more complicated. Case in point: Rest your chopsticks the wrong way, and you might remind a Japanese friend of their grandmother's funeral (Rule 2).

What, Me Exercise? Those who do not find time for exercise now will have to find time for illness. —The Earl of Derby, 1873 Don't kid yourself into thinking that exercise, by itself, will make you lose weight. Financial Planning Association Turn on more accessible mode Sign In <div id="ctl00_ctl48_noscript">It looks like your browser does not have JavaScript enabled. Please turn on JavaScript and try again.</div> Bargaineering: personal finance blog with anecdotes, advice and commentary.

pose running technique The popularity of running as a leisure pursuit has increased throughout the past 25 years, reflecting social trends away from organised team sports and towards less time-consuming, more flexible and independent ways of keeping fit and active. Over the same time period, there has been an explosion in sports science and sports injury research and therapeutic practice. Among other things this has produced a wealth of advice on baseline fitness and training for running, and huge advances in footwear technology. Yet despite all this, runners keep on injuring themselves. They continue to seek treatment, typically, for Achilles tendinosis, patellofemoral pain, repetitive calf muscle strains, big toe pain and low back pain – and it seems to those of us who have been around the sports therapy world for a while that the incidence of running injuries has not reduced significantly.

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The painful truth about trainers: Are expensive running shoes a waste of money? Thrust enhancers, roll bars, microchips...the $20 billion running - shoe industry wants us to believe that the latest technologies will cushion every stride. Yet in this extract from his controversial new book, Christopher McDougall claims that injury rates for runners are actually on the rise, that everything we've been told about running shoes is wrong - and that it might even be better to go barefoot... By CHRISTOPHER McDOUGALL The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Barefoot Running ‘And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.’ ~Kahlil Gibran Post written by Leo Babauta. Diseases of Affluence RECENTLY I WORKED as an internist-intensivist at the Canadian Combat Surgical Hospital in Kandahar. Most of our casualties were Afghans: National Army soldiers, National Police and civilians caught in crossfire. They were diminutive men, almost always less than a hundred and forty pounds. I cannot comment on the body masses of the Taliban—they were never brought to us. But they are not likely larger than those of the soldiers and the police. And because, in war, soldiers are fed first—prospering right up to the moment they are pierced—the civilians were even thinner.