Issue: March 05, 2012 (Archive)

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Won't come out to play
The kid who never gets the ball tossed to him in the playground may be more likely to pass on any type of exercise. Children who were ostracized during a virtual ball-toss computer game were subsequently less physically active, a study has found.

No pain, all gain
Your loss is someone else's gain. Outdoor fitness company Circuit25 is giving you two new incentives to tone up: All4One and the Six-Week Challenge.

Give yourself 21 days
Almost 40 percent of the Chinese population is overweight or obese, according to the World Health Organization. The prevalence of Type 2 diabetes in the country is close to 10 percent of the population - similar to that of the United States.

Eye that freebie
Get a free Sukin Antioxidant Eye Serum (HK$135) when you buy more than HK$230 worth of Sukin products from Watsons between February 28 and March 18.

Gentle cleanser
You don't need to scrub your face squeaky clean to cleanse it thoroughly.

Stop pushing it
Mark Goldman was a relative newcomer to yoga when he found himself teetering in the standing lotus pose with an instructor barking over him like a drill sergeant. "You can get into this pose," the yogi said. "Push harder."

Fight the radicals
Pollution, smoking and stress increase the presence of free radicals in your body.

Bar none
Instead of chocolates for Valentine's Day, how about giving heart-healthy Stephen James Luxury Organics Activated! energy bars (HK$39)?

Look into your heart
Something wasn't quite right. Linda DeSmet was gaining weight and she couldn't figure out why. Then she started getting short of breath with the slightest bit of exertion. "If I walked a short distance, I had a hard time breathing," she recalled. She knew she should see a doctor, but she put it off.

Going gently
All of us want to die with dignity. But did you know that one in 10 people face an undignified end - going to their death screaming in pain?

Perfect pinch
Inspired by Singapore's famous chili crab dish, researchers have created a robot with a pincer and a hook that can remove early-stage stomach cancers without leaving any scars. Mounted on an endoscope, it enters the patient's gut through the mouth. It has a pincer to hold cancerous tissues, and a hook that slices them off and coagulates blood to stop bleeding.

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