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Heart Attack Grill Diet Center.

A good diet is one that avoids foods that contribute to problems that raise the risk of heart disease like obesity, high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

Diet can play an important role in lowering your cholesterol. Discover ten foods that can protect your heart.

Now you can use your iPhone monitor your heart rate. This iPhone Heart Monitor app by John Ballinger. It uses the inbuilt microphone on your iPhone 3G or headphone microphone to listen to and detect your heart beats. You can use the iPhone 3G directly over your heart or directly on the pulse in your neck or wrist, the app will be able to detect the stats(Check out see the video). Available on iTunes for $5. [ link ]
Please Note: works best with iPhone 3G, works well with iPhone 1G/2G but you must use the headphone cable microphone, the inbuilt microphone does not detect heart beats.

Heated car seats are nice and toasty for your bottom, but it may prove be too toasty for men’s sperms:

Optimal sperm production requires a temperature 1 to 2 °C below
the core body temperature of 37 °C. This is one reason why the testicles hang outside the main part of the body. To test whether heated car seats might be raising scrotal temperatures above this threshold, Andreas Jung at the University of Giessen in Germany and his colleagues fitted temperature sensors to the scrotums of 30 healthy men, who then sat on a heated car seat for 90 minutes.

An hour in, and scrotal temperature had already risen to an average of 37.3 °C, with a maximum temperature in one man of 39.7 °C. [...] Although that’s only a slight increase due to the heated seats, Jung notes that it may nevertheless be enough to damage the sperm production process.

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The iPosture Posture Improvement Device($100) was created to serve as an aid to men and women in improving their posture, enhances their appearance. You just wearn it as a pendant, clipped to clothing or adhered directly to the skin, it can remind you by vibrating intermittently if your posture is uncorrected.
“The iPosture immediately begins improving a user’s posture by vibrating intermittently when the user slouches and continuing to vibrate until posture is corrected. The iPosture is designed to be worn for approximately four hours per day for the first two to four weeks in order to improve posture by ingraining good behaviors in the user. Once a user learns to correct him- or herself, he or she will continue to do so even when not wearing the device. However, the user should continue to use the device two to three times per week thereafter to maintain posture improvement. The iPosture monitor was developed to be the smallest, most user-friendly posture improvement device on the market. Just 1 inch in diameter, the iPosture is designed with intuitive technology that senses when the body slouches, and it alerts the user with a brief vibration to correct it. “