Good news! You’re likely burning more calories than you thought when you’re walking

Walking is the most common exercise, and many walkers like to count how many calories are burned. Little known, however, is that the leading standardized equations used to predict or estimate walking energy expenditure — the number of calories burned — assume that one size fits all. They’ve been in place for close to half a century and were based …

Michelle Alexander – If a Political Revolution Is Born, It Will Have Little to Do With Bernie or Hillary, but Everything to Do With Us

his is the last post that I intend to write about the primaries for quite awhile. I am sharing this article because it makes two important points that seem to be lost in all the sensational media coverage of Hillary vs Bernie: Although Bernie ultimately voted for the 1994 crime bill, he argued strenuously in opposition to it on the …