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"Ornish earned his reputation with his work on the management of atherosclerosis with extremely low fat vegetarian diets. But like predecessor Nathan Pritikin, Ornish's recommendations are not suitable for most people. The few small studies claimed to prove the worth of his work have also been questioned on scientific grounds. Dr. Richard Pasternak, director of preventive cardiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, has said that "There's virtually no science" in them. Dr. Robert Eckel, Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver and chairman of the nutrition committee of the American Heart Association also expressed serious doubts, as did Dr. Frank Sacks, a nutrition professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Sacks, in trying to replicate Dr. Ornish's results with a grant from the NIH, found that it was difficult to recruit patients and few could stick with the program. Fortunately, Ornish's program has been superseded by more effective forms of managing elevated blood cholesterol and the discovery of other treatable risk factors.



Ornish began as a devotee of an Indian guru, Sri Swami Satchidananda. He became involved with the Swami after dropping out of Rice University in 1972 in a state of suicidal depression. It was apparently during this time that he formed his beliefs about the importance of a vegetarian diet with no added salt, sugar or fat and no caffeine combined with meditation, yoga and exercise.



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You can learn to stop arching your back while bench pressing. I'm a certified personal trainer. The first thing you can do that will make it easier to stop arching your back while performing the bench press, is to watch someone else committing this mistake.

Yes, watch them, and you will see how ridiculous it looks. That's how you look. Sorry for being blunt, but when a person arches his (or her) spinal column while bench pressing, how can he not know that this fools nobody, and isn't a true bench press?

Sometimes, the back arch is done during the bench press because the person wants to be seen handling a heavy barbell, and the only way to move the barbell is to arch the back. Even if the barbell is heavy for your body weight, you won't impress anybody.

The next step is to abandon the idea of handling the weight load that you arch your back for. If you can't maintain proper form with a particular weight load, then stop using that weight load. Bad form with heavy weights won't progress you as quickly as good form with lighter weights.

There's a woman I see at the gym who dramatically arches her back when bench pressing -- the barbell is 135 pounds. She wants to be seen bench pressing 135 pounds. However, what everyone sees is an exaggerated vertebral arch, and not only that, but she brings the bar down only halfway for every rep.

Do you do this? And if so, is it to be seen handling a heavy barbell, or do you really believe that a big back arch (especially coupled with incomplete reps) will make you stronger and bigger? It certainly doesn't make you look strong, and it will do very little to advance your strength or grow your muscles.

Use lighter weights so that you are not tempted to arch your back when bench pressing. People don't care how much weight you have on the barbell as much as you think they do.

The next tip is to place both feet on the bench, legs bent, while lifting. You won't be able to arch your spinal column this way. Keep your feet on the bench for the entire set. The flat back will force your chest muscles to do much more work than if you arch your spine while your feet are on the floor.

Arching your back while bench pressing is called a muscle substitution pattern, and that's exactly what it sounds like it is: Some chest muscle fiber gets substituted out by leg and lower back muscles when the bench press is performed with an arched back. When you bench press, do you want to build your chest/arms, or lower back and legs?

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Joe Torre shockingly announced he will retire from the Los Angeles Dodgers, and hands  the reins to successor Don Mattingly today  with two weeks left in the regular season.

It's a move that caught everyone by surprise considering that the Dodgers may want to interview others such as Tim Wallach, but nevertheless Mattingly is the incoming manager while Torre is nothing but a lame duck on the West Coast.

This offseason is promising to be quite the boiling one when it comes to managers and vacant team openings. As for Joe Torre, where will he end up going next season?

You can bet he'll end up with a big market team with a playoff bound roster that is destined for the World Series. Remember he is retiring from the Dodgers, not baseball, so whether he is or isn't we look at Torre's possible destinations this offseason. 

At the end of the day, it would have been nice to send Joe Torre out on the shoulders of his players, being carried from the field after one last trip to October, one last dramatic seven game Fall Classic, and one last trip around the stadium.

But even though this is Hollywood, the place that patented the Hollywood Ending, we aren't on the set of a movie, and there will be no fairy tale goodbye.

Joe Torre leaves on his own terms nevertheless, old enough to have seen it all and yet young enough to still enjoy the memories.

It is fitting that Torre, who first appeared on the major league scene fifty years ago as a 19 year old kid with the Milwaukee Braves, retires the same year as Bobby Cox, the venerable Braves manager.  

Torre is one year older than Cox, and made his debut as a manager in 1977, one year ahead of Cox. Torre managed the Braves in the mid-1980's, taking over one year after Cox was fired from his first stint with the team. And Cox won his only World Series in 1995, one year before Torre would win his first with the Yankees. 

And while it seems that these two baseball sages, these two elder statesmen of the game, were always missing each other by a year, of this there can be no doubt: in five years time, these two legends of the game will be standing side-by-side, God willing, as the newest inductees into baseball's Hall of Fame.

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Apple Ipad Review

Free Fallout: New Vegas Graphic Novel Preview Hits iPad

Have an iPad and a bit of time? Might want to check out the free preview of the Fallout: New Vegas All Roads graphic novel.

Bethesda Softworks teamed up with Dark Horse Comics to create this graphic novel penned by Chris Avellone, the game's senior designer. The freebie gives you 12 pages of the graphic novel. Here's a small taste.

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The Wall Street Journal

The default front page of the WSJ app immediately shows that the WSJ has thought a little outside the box in making its iPad edition different from the print and website editions. It offers up two versions of the paper: a daily one and a "Now" one. The "Now" version is updated with breaking news coverage throughout the day. It also features "top article picks from Journal editors." Users are invited to choose one or the other as their default version when they open the app. Both versions offer a mix of content from the print and online versions of WSJ.

As well as two versions of the paper, the WSJ iPad app has three useful sections: My Watchlist, Saved Articles and Saved Sections (the latter is only available to subscribers). It should be noted that the WSJ iPad app offers only limited content and features to free users. Subscribers get the full experience for $3.99 per week. A good portion of the content of the iPad app isn't available to non-paying users.

From a user experience perspective, the WSJ iPad app is very slick. The now familiar 'swipe' and 'pinch' iPad functions are deployed smartly and the only new thing users need to learn is that pinching returns them to the section homepage.

The New York Times

In contrast to the WSJ and many other newspapers with iPad apps, the New York Times offers only a limited amount of content in its iPad app. Called NYT Editor's Choice, the app features "a selection of latest news, opinion and features" from the venerable paper.

The NYT app has been heavily criticized for its lack of content. Gizmodo argues that the NYT's deal with the Amazon Kindle could be a big factor behind that decision. Politics aside, what is the user experience like?

The app is divided into sections: 6 content ones (News, Business, Technology, Opinion, Arts, Features) and one for video content. The first thing that struck me about the app is its relatively small default font. There is an option to select a larger font, but - like some of the Zinio magazine apps I profiled yesterday - one can't magnify the content. The content also has few images. Navigating the app is via the same swiping motion in WSJ, but it felt clunkier.

The video section was good, but (you guessed it) there wasn't a lot of content.

Overall, the NYT iPad app is rather disappointing from a content perspective - and just average from a user interaction point of view.

Newsy

The fact that both WSJ and NYT offer only limited free content on iPad surely leaves room for other companies to innovate. And that's exactly what video news service Newsy has done. It was probably the first iPad app that I used regularly, when I bought the device.

Newsy creates short video summaries of daily news. They're presented by people who wouldn't look out of place on the E Channel. Each clip runs from 2-5 minutes and is comprised of commentary based on TV news networks, news web sites and (refreshingly) blogs. They're concise summaries of the news of the day, taken from sources across the Web and other media.

I often watch Newsy on my iPad during my lunchtime - it sure beats watching midday TV! Here's an example clip, about the iPad's WiFi problems back in April:

iPad Newspapers Lite on Innovation Currently

There's no shortage of newspapers that offer iPad applications, many of them with much more free content than WSJ and NYT. However the sector is ripe for innovation, which is what apps like Newsy and Flipboard are doing.

Over time, newspapers will add more interactive features - video, infographics, slideshows. Much of the type of content that the Wired iPad app is experimenting with.

Newspapers could also do a lot with personalization on the iPad. Every newspaper reader (obviously I'm referring to older generations - joke!) has their favorite sections. But more than that, newspapers should offer in-depth news coverage on topics of interest to individual readers. It could even be esoteric content that doesn't often make the print edition due to space restrictions. The iPad is a Web-connected device after all, so it could theoretically pull down any content from a newspaper's archives - in the case of WSJ and NYT, those companies have decades of content that could potentially be accessed by iPad users. Imagine reading a news story about the BP oil spill, and wondering what other oil spills there have been through history - why not scroll through the WSJ or NYT archives on that topic within your iPad.

Let us know in the comments what your favorite iPad newspaper apps are. Also, what features would you like to see in these apps?

Disclosure: ReadWriteWeb is syndicated by NYT, although not on the iPad. Image credits: ReneS.; stevegarfield

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