From the MA DPH:

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) Tobacco Control Program is pleased to announce its offering of a FREE two-week supply of nicotine patches to smokers who call the DPH Smokers Helpline at 1-800-Try-To-Stop (1-800-879-8678) during the months of July and August. Spanish-speakers should call 1-800-8-Dejalo (1-800-833-5256) to talk with Spanish- speaking counselors.

The kit includes patches, along with quit tips and information on resources for smokers who want to quit. Retail value is approximately $50 per kit. This offer is good through August 31, 2008, or while supplies last.

Woot!

In the former book, Pollan discusses problems with the food supply and food industry in the US, and the challenges faced by consumers who actually care about what they eat. In the latter book, he addresses the same issues, but from the perspective of answering the question: “What can we do about it?”

Central to his perspective is that food isn’t very profitable to companies as a commodity. A bunch of celery or a simple piece of beef doesn’t sell for very much (unless we’re talking organic, then all bets are off), relative to the prices and profit margins companies can get from making products out of the celery or beef. Pollan calls these products “edible, food-like substances” in contrast to real food.

In this video of a lecture he gave at Google, he gives the example that while cut oats are pennies to the pound, if General Mills, Post or Kellog add high-fructose corn syrup, salt and additives and process the oats so as to remove some of the fiber, they end up with a product costing tens or hundreds of times the cost of the oats themselves.

He also talks about what he calls “Nutritionism,” or a belief that nutrients are important and sources of nutrients are not. Food companies use this to encourage people who want to be healthy eaters to buy premium healthier versions of their products that have vitamins, minerals and/or fiber artificially added back in. This can make them almost as healthy as the original food item was when it came out of the ground and before it was converted into frankenfood!

Highlights:

• Eat locally
• Eat organic
• Eat grass-fed
• Shop the perimeter of the grocery store, not the middle.
• Don’t eat it if:

• You can’t pronounce the ingredients
• Your great grandmother (or someone else’s) wouldn’t recognize it as food.

The whole philosophy boils down to seven words: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

Links:
“Michael Pollan” on YouTube
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals on Amazon
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto on Amazon

Welcome to a blast from the past - a rerun of the original episode of the original Health Hacks Podcast, from August of 2006.

At the time of launch the show had four contributors: myself (Kevin Kennedy-Spaien), Jimmy Moore, Chris Brogan, and Reinhard Engels.

Chris had been doing a show called “Fat Guy Gets Fit,” and asked me to take the lead in expanding it to a multi-contributor show that I would run. I recruited the other contributors from blogs I followed and we started out on Chris’ show for two episodes before putting together this beta episode. Listen in to hear it - warts and all, although the content is still good.

We don’t have all the episodes anymore. When Grasshopper New Media closed down, most of the episodes were lost, but those we still have will be posted here in the coming weeks, then more new episodes of the revised “Health-Hack Podcast.”

Enjoy!

Links:

Jimmy Moore today: The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show With Jimmy Moore
Reinhard Engels today: The No S Diet
Chris Brogan Today: ChrisBrogan.com

Kelly Damron

Kelly Damron is a blogger and the author of Tiny Toes: A Couple’s Journey Through Infertility, Prematurity, and Depression. In this podcast we take a look at how Kelly’s own personal experiences have effected her and helped form the basis for her work through Twin Peas, LLC.

Links for Kelly Damron, Twin Peas and Tiny Toes:

Twin Peas - Kelly’s website: http://twinpeas.com
Kelly’s blog: http://twinpeas.com/wordpress/
Tiny Toes on Amazon.com

Keywords: fertility, infertility, post-partum depression, prematurity, premature birth

When I don’t have time to go to the gym or get on my bike, I make my own circuit workout. Today I was being a bit creative and came up with a full body workout that I can do at my dining room table!

The table and chair workout:
Perform these exercises in quick succession to make a circuit.
You’ll need:
2 sturdy chairs
1 sturdy table

Warm-up for a few minutes before performing this workout. Either jog on the spot, jump rope or climb stairs if you have them.

Step ups onto a chair.
Make sure your chair isn’t going to move. Carpeted floors work best but placing the back of the chair against a wall helps on wooden floors. Alternate legs until you have done 10-15 steps on each leg.

Chair Tricep Dips (to combat turkey wings): Stand with your back to the chair, as if your were going to sit down but about 1.5ft further way. With your palms facing behind you place your hands on the front of the seat. Lower your body, keeping your back straight until your elbows are pointing backwards and bent at 90º. Pushing using your hands (not your feet) raise your body to a straight armed position and repeat up to 15 times or until failure.

Chair Glute-crunches: Lie on the floor facing the seat of the chair with your knees bent, so that your feet are slightly under the chair. Straighten on leg and place it on the chair. Push through the heel of the foot which is on the floor and squeeze your buttocks, raising your hips off the ground. Slowly lower your body and repeat 10-15 times for each leg. You can add an adominal crunch or crunch twist at the end of the movement for added ab work.

Table chinups: Lie underneath the table with your head and shoulders protruding, so that your shoulderblades line up with the end of the table, legs straight. Grip the tabletop, palms facing up. Squeeze your shoulder-blades together and pull your chest towards the underside of the table until your chin is touching the edge of the table. Keep your body in a plank. Slowly lower your body to the starting position and repeat. If this is too hard bring your feet in and bend your knees slightly, keep your body straight.

Bulgarian split squats: Stand in front of a chair (as if about to sit). Take on large step forward and place the toe of your rear foot on the chair. Keeping your body upright and chest high lower your body towards the floor until your front leg is bent at 90º. Make sure your front knee does not pass your toe and that you are not twisting your body. Squeeze your buttocks and push through your heel to help raise your body to a starting position. Repeat 10–15 times for each leg.

Chair shoulder press: Place 2 chairs, seats facing each other, 2-3ft apart. Place your body in between them with your palms on the edges of the seats, fingers pointing towards your body gripping the edge of the seat. Extend your legs infront of you either fully or slightly bent for an easier version. Slowly lower your body towards the floor until your arms are bent at 90 degrees. Keep your shoulders back and body tall and upright. Push through your palms to raise your body slowly to a starting position. Repeat 10–12 times.

Sit down, stand up… and up: Start by sitting in a chair with good posture. Try to stand up without using your hands, squeezing the abs and buttocks to help raise your body. Push through the heels. Once you are standing, transfer the weight to the front of your feet and raise up onto the balls of your feet, hold for 10 seconds and slowly lower to flat feet and then to hovering just above the seat, hold for 10 seconds and repeat 10–15 times.

To increase the calories burnt during the workout include an active recovery of jogging or skipping on the spot for a minute between each exercise. The circuit should take about 7 minutes to complete, perform it up to 5 times. To increase the intensity of these exercises do them wearing a backpack with something heavy in it, sacks of flour and sugar are ideal.

Don’t forget the other most important exercise these holidays: The put down and push away: Put down your fork and push away the plate when you’re full.

In the mean time, say “Hi,” if you are at Podcamp Boston II this month, and check out our newly re-launched Disc of Light website, too!

Mysteriously though, Quizno’s seems to be willing to just pay any fines and NOT release this information. Apparently it was once available on their website, but has since been removed. A recent thread on MeFi has turned up one place where this data can still be found: About.com’s Calorie Count web site.

So check it out for the “skinny” on the toasty subs so good they’ll make you shoot yourself in the chest three times!

It’s called the enteric nervous system, and is a collection of neural tissue that wraps in sheaths around your digestive tract, from esophagus to colon. It is fairly well separated from the cranial brain, growing independently during fetal development, and only later being joined by the Vagus nerve.

It is speculated that “nervous stomach” conditions such as colitis and irritable bowel syndrome may be caused the enteric nervous system. The discipline of neurogastroenterology is studying the connection between these (and other) disorders and the “belly brain”.

For more information:
Complex and Hidden Brain in Gut Makes Stomachaches and Butterflies [NYTimes]

What does it mean to be part of the movement? Very simple:

1. Blog your weight/thoughts about weight loss each day (you don’t have to put the number in the subject line if you don’t want… but I think that’s fun).
2. Search for Fatbloggers daily (i.e. on Technorati or Google Blog Search)
3. Link to and comment on blog posts by other fatbloggers. Share your ups, downs, and tips.

Jason was kind enough to respond to a post I wrote about this over at the GNMHealth.com blog.

Here are two quick tips to hack your crock pot cookery:

1) Freeze all ingredients the night before cooking. Put them in before leaving for work and your food won’t be mush by dinner time, though it will be cooked. Great for roasts.

2) Don’t have a fancy model with a timer? Use a cheap lamp timer available at any hardware store. Set it to turn off an hour before you get home and the food will be cool enough to feed your kids as soon as you walk through the door.

Episode 18 is all about helping you stick with the resolutions you might have made at the start of January:

• Reinhard Engels continues to explain the relationship between the everyday systems “Chain of Self-Command” and “Personal Punchcards” which were introduced last week. Hint: it involves evil robots!
• Occupational Therapist Eve The O.T. takes a break from her multi-part report on office ergonomics to help you bolster your willpower and patch up any lapses now that you’re ten days into your New Year’s resolutions.

Host Michelle Koen will be taking classic recipes like burgers and treats like pudding and cake and showing you how to adapt them to your diet, whether it’s a low-fat approach like Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig, or a carb-controlled plan like the South Beach diet or Atkins.

In the premiere episode, Michelle will be taking the humble yet fatty hamburger and re-inventing it as a delectable yet quite healthy Asian-style lunch or dinner entree!

Join us each Monday for another healthy culinary delight!

GNMHealth shows:

Resveratrol on MeFi

The Thanksgiving Menu of the Gods at Wired.com

Genetics of muscle performance at BoingBoing

Geek’s Guide to Getting in Shape: 13 Surefire Tips

In this episode, I discuss a new twist on using up those pumpkin seeds and what to do with that extra candy.

Reinhard Engels has more on habits for behavior management, Chris Brogan talks about Nuts.

Occupational Therapist Eve the OT teaches about breathing as a form of stress management, and Patrick “Vitamin P” Sullivan discusses a law called DSHEA, which is the reason nutritional supplement companies (like his) cannot simply tell consumers what an herb or mineral compound is supposed to treat.

Also, in this episode, we begin the use of transcripts in our show notes. These are not complete, but do cover much of the show.

Subscribe to the Health Hacks Podcast:

Via iTunes
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KFC (formerly Kentucky Fried Chicken, now ashamed of the word “fried”, apparently) will have dropped its current trans-fat laden cooking oil in favor of soybean oil by April ‘07. They are not alone; recently, Wendy’s removed trans fat from its fries, earlier this year Disney announced it will eliminate trans fats from food sold at its theme parks, McDonalds is actively experimenting to find the tastiest way to make trans-fat free cuisine a staple at the golden arches, as well. Kraft, ConAgra and Frito-Lay have also reduced trans fat use in their products.

Since the NYC Board of Health is holding hearings on a potential city-wide ban on trans fats, and companies like KFC have been targets of lawsuits by the likes of the Center for Science in the Public Interest over non-disclosure of trans fat use, it seems that corporate America has been forced to act by forces outside of the boardroom. That is only part of the story, though.

The real movement seems like it may be coming from within these organizations. Pollsters working for KFC, for instance, have determined that they will actually sell more product if they make the switch. That’s a pretty compelling argument. It seems that 25% of KFC customers said they would eat MORE fried chicken if they didn’t have to worry about trans fats.

Consider the strength of that factoid- this is not a boycott. This isn’t some potentially disinterested group of people saying “don’t eat at KFC”, and picketing with banners and cardboard signs. These are people who are already money-in-the-bank customers claiming they’d eat MORE. From an Aesopean perspective, the bird in the hand is worth two in the picket line.

Can capitalism save our collective health? I doubt it, but then again… every little bit helps.

AND PLEASE DON”T EAT MORE CHICKEN JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN!!

Inspiration:
KFC plans ‘important’ trans fat ‘milestone’ (USA Today)

According to the website, Hypersrtike offers:

Workout plan customized to fit your needs
* Personalized 90-Session Workout Plan to Fit Your Goals
* Personal Fitness Calendar to Record Your Progress
* Add, Delete, Move Workouts to Fit Your Schedule

Variety & Flexibility in Your Workouts

* Workouts Draw from a Large Database of 3D Exercise Animations
* Take Your Workout on the Go Via Progio
* Swap Exercises to Fit Your Equipment Needs

Exercise Instructions to Help You with Proper Technique

* Written Step-By-Step and Animated Exercise Instructions
* Subscription to HyperStrike Motivator Monthly Newsletter
* Access to Articles on Fitness & Nutrition

Hyperstrike is a pay service, but they have a free introductory period offered on their web site.
I likes the animated exercise videos and found them useful. Check it out!

Traineo Weight Loss Community

A community-based portal to encourage weight loss.

From the splash page:

* Stay accountable, reach your goals!
Been to the gym today? Record this in a couple of clicks and see how many calories you burned. traineo will report your totals to your motivators at the end of each week.
* Keep your diet on track
Have you stuck to your diet today? traineo will give you a daily ‘training diet rating’ to easily gauge how good you’ve been.

* Visualize your progress
See how your workouts and diet compare over time with intuitive graphs and see if you’re on target to reach your goals.
*
Keep in touch with your ‘motivators’
Exchange messages with your ‘traineo motivators’ straight from your online account.
* Meet others in the traineo community
Share weight loss tips, give your fellow members encouragement or talk about anything else!
* Get your personal traineo.com page!
You’ll have your very own traineo.com domain where you can leave comments on your progress or comment on other pages with ease!

Collabofit Online Fitness

Virtual teams compete against each other by maintaing an exercise regimen.
Currently invitation only. Sorry! On the upside, they even have a Shovelglove team!
From the site:

Regular memberships are FREE and include these features:

* Join up to 3 teams
* Create your own team
* Enter workout activity stats:
o Walking
o Running
o Swimming
o Cycling
o Situps
o Pushups
o and more…
* Easily track your weight and stats over time

The Daily Plate

A free, online food diary system with food count lookups available.

From the site:

A diet coach, nutritionist, and food plan at your fingertips, just a click away.

Food Journal Food Journal
Keep track of what you eat
Calorie Calculator Calorie Calculator
Determine your daily goal
Fitness Log Fitness Log
Calculate and log the calories you burn each day

Technorati Tags: traineo, collabofit, Daily Plate, online fitness, fitness community, weight loss, weight management

However, running a podcast (How I wish we had used a term like “Netcast” or “Webcast”!) I’ve come to realize that in general people aren’t that savvy about podcasts. Not you, of course, just… people.

So, for the record, You don’t need an iPod to listen to a podcast. you don’t need a portable MP3 player. If you are capable of reading this text, it’s 99.99% a given that you have everything you need (for instance, a soundcard and speakers or headphones… a cell phone… take your pick).

Podcasts are available for listening (or viewing) in a variety of ways: via RSS and an aggregator such as Bloglines; through the iTunes store (usually free!); by visiting a podcast’s page directly; by using a Podcast directory. Whatever is best suited to your needs.

So go now to http://www.healthhackspodcast.com/ and click the little widget in the top post. Sitting at your desk, you will hear this week’s Health Hacks Podcast, featuring segments on Managing your mental well-being on weekends, staying motivated to continue your weight loss, an introduction to Yoga, and thoughts on applying purposeful walking in your life.

If that gets you really pumped, scroll down the page and listen to the six episodes that precede episode six as well! There’s a new show every Wednesday morning.

On behalf of contributors Chris Brogan, Reinhard Engels, Jimmy Moore and myself, thanks!

It’s a good bet that in 9 cases out of 10, this is fine. But what if the attack follows, or is immediately followed by physical exertion? A lot of huffing and puffing can set you up for a respiratory infection under these conditions, particularly if you have a history of asthma.

This information comes from a Physician’s assistant with whom I had the mixed blessing to converse this week. This resulted from something that happened as I was recording a segment for the podcast where I was climbing ten flights of stairs, as I often do. Normally, this doesn’t over-exhaust me (although it did until recently).

On the day in question, after reaching the top of the stairs, I was especially winded AND my soft palate was itchy and my nose began to run. These minor allergy symptoms happen to me all the time, but usually don’t last long. I chose to blow it off, rather than take my Albuterol inhaler. My, oh my was that an error in judgement!

I am currently suffering a major brochial infection. My physician’s assistant informed me that people who suffer from what she called the “allergic trio” of allergies, asthma, and eczema (guilty!) this is a fairly common progression. What eczema has to do with it, I didn’t think to ask.

I have had Pneumonia several times in the last few years, but never really noticed where it started from. In retrospect, it did usually follow physical exertion. So, to all of you with allergies, take note!

I’ve been accustomed to merely reporting on health news since this blog launched in January of 2005. Now, it seems that I’m something of a public figure. Weird.

In the course of promoting the Health Hacks Podcast, and GNM in general, I’ve participated in public forums like PodCamp Boston, where I lead a (very small) session, befriended some pretty interesting people and saw my boss, Chris Brogan, catapult into the limelight.

So, while I’m not signing autographs or writing my memoirs (yet) I am at least now interview-worthy. Well, at least in the eyes of my compatriot Jimmy Moore of the Livin’ La Vida Low Carb blog. You can read the interview here.

Giving this interview was an awakening because it made me articulate some things that were only loosely formed in my mind. It has sparked a lot of interest, and many people have contacted me about contributing either to the Health Hacks Podcast, or possibly to a new show (Interested? let me know!).

Anyway, in this interview I was asked about being a “former low carber”. I haven’t really discussed my own diet path much here on HHDC, so I wasn’t really expecting the question.

I reponded that I don’t feel like a “former low carber”, but perhaps like a former Atkins dieter. Really, when it comes to diets, I tend toward being “platform agnostic”. One reason I gave for moving on to other Low carb/controlled carb concepts was that BDK, or Ketosis wasn’t very attainable for me and that BDK is one of the major points seperating Atkins from other similar plans.

One reader asked how that made sense, and here is my response:

If I could, I’d like offer a response to Low Carb Tennis Guy’s questions.

First, I’ll answer his second question. Dr. Atkins was not the only person to develop a low-carb diet. William Banting was promoting a LC plan his doctor developed back in the 1800’s. Today there are many low carb plans, most of which differ in small ways. If you include “controlled carbohydrate” diets then you can even lump in the South Beach diet and other similar plans.

One major difference between the plan developed (as a work in progress over decades of gradual evolution) by Dr. Atkins and many of the other plans is the “Atkins Metabolic Advantage”, a physiological response triggered by a near absense of carbs. It is more commonly known as Ketosis, but Dr. Atkins, in his later years, favored the term Beneficial Dietary Ketosis, or BDK.

The reason for the new term is that many DOCTORS (gasp!) didn’t realize that there is a difference between ketosis and a very harmful but completely unrelated condition called ketoacidosis. These doctors would tell patients to avoid the Atkins plan like the plague, out of ignorance.

Now the problem with ketosis is that while it makes your body burn fat rather than other fuels, it can be really hard to trigger ketosis. Moreover many LC dieters found they could lose significant amounts of weight without reaching ketosis.

I, myself had much trouble reaching ketosis, and was blowing a fortune on ketone test-strips, even though I was losing weight at a good clip. I did find, though, that while Atkins stressed that you wouldn’t need to conciously limit your food intake that didn’t work for me.

You see, in theory, he had a great idea. Atkins was relying on the hunger/fullness mechanism to kick in, which is likely to happen because fats and proteins are filling. However, a certain portion of americans (like me) had such a screwed up way of eating (thanks, McDonald’s!) that we no longer really understood these concepts of “full” and “hunger”.

So, anyway, I found that I did need some external control on portion sizes, which is why I now pair low-carb dieting with the No-S diet (and the Shangri-La diet, but using oil, not sugar).

I still support the Atkins diet both in theory and, for those it suits, in practice. Look at Jimmy- who can argue with that kind of success?!

For more great info on different Low Carb diets, please read Dana Carpender’s excellent “How I Gave Up My Low Fat Diet And Lost 40 Pounds”.

Isaac Mizrahi, fashion designer extrordinaire has a new job- he designs for Target.

In that capacity, he seems to be trying to curry favor with his new demographic- Middle America (or possibly James Lileks who seems to spend 12 hours a day in the Bullseye Boutique).

Last week Mizrahi appeared on the NPR game show (Yes! They exist!) “Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me”. Pointing to popular actor Vince Vaughn, Mizrahi stated that “Fat is the new black.”

Hrmph.

If you thought it was sad living in a country where everyone is on a diet, imagine one where everyone has simply given up.

Do not go gentle into that good night, people.

Here are some new insights and factoids:

• I counted the steps in the parking garage; 92
• Weight loss as of this morning (since last week); 4 LBS
• Decrease in pants size in 2 weeks; 1
• Another new diet rule; no reading at lunch- just sit and eat, preferably with eyes closed.

Sample menus are under development. This Wednesday, you’ll be able to hear me brainstorming a few on the new podcast, Episode 4.

In the mean time, check out our VERY SPECIAL PODCAMP SPECIAL episode. In addition to some talk on diet and fitness, Eve the O.T. and I discuss ergonomics and injury prevention extensively, with the assistance of people like Guido Stein, Steve Garfield, Beth Kanter, Justin Kownacki, Shava Nerad, and more!

As you may guess the article explains why some exercises may yield less weight loss than one might expect.

One point raised is that if a particular exercise is supposed to burn 300 calories over a certain period of time, you must take into account how many calories you would expend simply by existing during that period and subtract that to see your real caloric deficit. This is the figure upon which you should base your weight loss expectation.

It’s a simple truth which I must admit had never occurred to me. How’s ’bout you?

I have actually put this theoretical diet into action, and combining this with the exercise regimen I’ve discussed over the last three episodes, I’m seeing some results.

The added exercise alone didn’t jumpstart my weight loss. Adding in this new diet has not had a discernable impact according to the scale, however I ended up tightening my belt several notches and eventually losing a pants size.

Reader Ethesis points out, wisely, that beginning any diet can jump-start weight loss. In fact he mentions the idea of rotating diets to keep your metabolism in constant flux. I have always referred to this effect as the “novely factor”.

So what I need to look at in the coming weeks is:
1. Is this plan sustainable?
2. Is it effective?
3. Does it quickly lead to a “brick wall”?

Now, this is just an experiment, and I am neither a dietician nor a nutritionist, but a believer in empirical learning. I have no right to expect this to work, yet I believe it will… but we’ll see.

Jimmy Moore, one of my partners in crime at the podcast, has been involved in a grassroots study of a new low-carb methodology, so I’ll be interested to see what happens on that score as well.

If you are interested in helping test drive this new diet, you can get some details in episode three, but remember, you try it at your own risk.

Be well!

I’m not a vegetarian, but something about them just piqued my curiosity. They are called Primal Strips and are made by Primal Spirit foods of Moundsville West Virginia.

I’m not really sure why I bought them. I chose the Seitan Thai Peanut flavor and the “Hot and Spicy” flavor made from Shiitake mushrooms. Sadly, I lost the mushroom derived one before I could eat it, but I did have an opportunity to try the Seitan.

I’ve tried seitan before, and hated it. However, my love of peanut-flavored Thai food overcame that distaste. I am pleased to say that I really loved it! The Thai peanut flavor was spot on… like a good Pad Thai (which I do miss occasionally), the underlying flavor of the seitan was inoffensive, and the texture was spot on- just like the softer types of beef jerky.

Nutrition panel info:
Calories: 74
Fat: 2G (sat=1g, trans fat=0)
Cholesterol: 0g
Sodium: 353 mg
Carbs: 8g (fiber=1g, sugar=4g, starch=3g)
Protein: 10g
Calcium: 2% RDA
Iron: 6% RDA

So, a little sugary, a bit more sodium than I’d like to see, but a good source of protein, filling and very tasty.

Overall a big thumbs up, with the caveat that this may not fit easily into a low carb plan unless used as a meal replacement bar. It is filling enough, though, that this could be done.

Primal Spirit foods, If you’re reading, I’d love to review some other flavors (HINT, HINT).

I spoke to so many awesome people that I’m really sad I can’t remember who I was interviewing (if you are that person, please remind me!) but a great new personal diet rule occured to me while we were speaking - no eating at the computer. Go have a proper sit down meal, and don’t just mindlessly gulp down whatever’s at hand.

This now goes alongside my other personal, location-based dietary proscription: No eating while driving. I see a theme developing here and it seems to have something to do with being more mindful of the eating experience.

Technorati Tags: Podcamp, diet, eating, food

The idea for Parkour Faux came after Chris and I were both waxing poetic over how awesome real Parkour looks and how we’d love to do it, if we were younger/fitter/etc. The “Aha moment” came to Chris while cruising Parkour videos on YouTube.

Chris stumbled across some kids pretending to be Traceurs. They were running around a park, climbing over benches and vaulting over garbage cans. His brain screamed, “Hey! That I can do!”

Fast forward a week. Eager to test this out, I grabbed a test subject and headed out to a derelict skateboard park near my home. Half an hour later it was clear… It ain’t real Parkour, but it certainly rocks!

Hear it for yourself in episode 2 of the Health Hacks Podcast.