Sitting for long periods of time — when you don’t stand up, don’t move at all — tends to cause changes physiologically within your muscles. You stop breaking up fat in your blood stream, you start getting accumulations of fat … in your liver, your heart and your brain. You get sleepy. You gain weight. You basically are much less healthy than if you’re moving.
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If you’re reading this Tumblr post while sitting down, stand up! Here’s more reasons why. (via nprfreshair) Tumblr—it’s a day to stand up! (via discoverynews) |
A bird! A plane! No, it’s super moon! It was hard to miss the spectacular full moon last night, when it was biggest, brightest and closest to Earth this year — a mere 221,802 miles away.
“America’s Oldest Teenager” - Dick Clark began his radio and television career in 1952 when he became the regular substitute host of “Bob Horn’s Bandstand” on WFIL in Philadelphia. In 1956, he became the full-time host. A year later, ABC picked up the show and changed the name to “American Bandstand.”
Clark died earlier today at age 82. (Photo by NBC. More photos.)
Dick Clark owned a Flintstones-inspired home, which he put on the market just weeks before he died for $3.5 million. This just goes to show how how awesome he really was.
More details on what happened before he died: CBS reports that former “American Bandstand” host and TV impresario Dick Clark passed away at Saint John’s hospital in Santa Monica, California, only 24 hours after being admitted for an unspecified outpatient procedure. Clark, who had a history…
