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GIive women a sporting chance!

Female athletes swept the medal board at the Olympics, but four out of five women in Britain apparently do hardly any exercise.

You can hardly avoid the sleek, toned and every inch an Olympic gold medallist, cyclist Rebecca Romero posing nude on her bike. After all, the 28-year-old’s naked image has been plastered across billboards to advertise sports drink Powerade.

There is a very good reason she has done so. The London-based Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) are keeping their fingers crossed that Romero will inspire a new generation of sportswomen.

Facing the daunting statistic that only one in five women take regular exercise, the UK charity devoted to getting more women into sport admits it’s got a problem.
According to the foundation, girls and boys start out with equal levels of activity, but by the time girls reach the age of 16, they are half as active as young men.

“Girls as young as seven stop playing sports because they don’t want to seem ‘unfeminine’,” says WSFF chief executive Sue Tibballs. “But with images of women like Rebecca looking strong, successful and sexy, they might change their minds.”

But Tibballs says this kind of attention is all too rare.

“At a time when female obesity levels are soaring, rates of activity are on the wane and women are struggling with their body image, Tibballs says that sport could be the answer.

“We are significantly less active than other countries like Australia and the Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. What’s great about the Olympics is watching women use their bodies in a strong and confident way. Predominantly the women who are famous in our culture are slim or skinny – the size zero generation. What kind of role model is that?

“It’s all about creating that cultural shift where girls grow up to think that doing sport, being fit and healthy is a really aspirational and a good thing.”

I have to say I agree. You can check the full story out on our sports page … Have fun, rock on, stay fit, friends!

Mind the age gap

Twice their age and far less attractive, older men like Ronnie Woods, John Cleese and Salman Rushdie continue to attract gorgeous young girlfriends. Wanobe’s reporter Sara O’Meara talked to author Judy Astley and others about the appeal of older men and why these relationships are usually doomed.

For many folks, relationships between older men and young woman seem crazy and unnatural. I mean why would a 19-year-old Russian waitress choose to date a man like 61-year-old Ronnie Wood?

But Ronnie’s nnot the only older man to bag a younger woman. At 61, Salman Rushdie’s latest squeeze is 27, John Cleese recently began dating an American woman aged 34, and 32-year-old DJ Mark Ronson is reportedly planning to marry 19-year-old model Daisy Lowe.

Some beleive that the age gap relationship is a trade off. The younger lady is looking for someone to make her feel safe and the older man is looking for someone who doesn’t answer back and is a trophy.

Christine Northam, a counsellor for relationship service Relate, told our reporter that couples with a large age difference need to work harder than most. She says that a large age gap can create a minefield of potential problems.

“Practically and emotionally you’re always going to be at different stages of development in terms of your career, your social life and starting a family. Success would entirely depend on exploring these possible areas of conflict and facing them head on.”

However, fiction writer Judy Astley who explores the age gap idea in her new romantic novel, Other People’s Husbands., believes ‘a relationship with a big gap can have an added spark.’

“I know a couple, she’s in her 50s and he’s over 80. He’s kept her fairly balanced, and she’s kept him young. He still can dive in to the sea off a high rock.”

Now that is what I call cool and living life out loud regardless of age. Check out the full article under the Family category in our News, tips and reviews section. I think in my next blog I’ll look at older women with younger men.

Have fun, rock on, friends!

Magical mind, magical body

Summer is a great time, whatever the weather. It’s a period when we regather our energy, soaking in the warmth and sunshine (yes, even in rainy Britain, the sun is known to shine occasionally during the summertime).

For me, summer is a time to laze around reading.

And I’ve just been given some amazing insights into the body’s relationship to the mind by reading  Deepak Chopra’s, Magical Mind Magical Body’.

Chopra explains how personality impacts choice of food, music and activities and how we can use this knowledge to optimise our health and potential.

All awesome stuff as evidenced by some of the mind-blowing facts provided about body and mind:

- In a year, a person`s heart beats 40,000,000 times.
- The average human’s heart will beat 3,000 million times in their lifetime.
- The average human will pump 48 million gallons of blood in their lifetime.
- In 1 square inch of skin there lies 4 yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels.
- The structural plan of a whale’s, a dog’s, a bird’s and a man’s ‘arm’ are exactly the same.
- There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
- Most people blink about 25 times a minute.
- Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
- Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170-miles per hour.
- You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown. You use an average of 17 muscles for a smile.
- Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.
- You burn 26 calories in a one-minute kiss.
- The average human body contains enough: Sulphur to kill all fleas on an average dog, Carbon to make 900 pencils, Potassium to fire a toy cannon, Fat to make 7 bars of soap, Phosphorus to make 2,200 matchheads, and enough water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
- A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
- The tooth is the only part of the human body that can’t repair itself.
Live well, live happy, folks – and keep on rocking!

On being awesome

On being awesome … and the meaning of life

We don’t claim to know the meaning of life at Wanobe.com, but we do understand our user’s desire to have a lifestyle site that is superb, really useful and easy to use.

That’s why we are working hard to make this site an awesome tool when it comes to delivering more fun, more useful features and some outstanding interactivity.

If you fancy sharing or looking at some cool videos, take a look at our new video category. Or if you are worried about a health issue, visit our new ‘well-being and health’ category where we have partnered with Britain’s NHS national health service to provide useful information and advice on just about every health issue under the sun.

What is wanobe.com here for?

We want to help open the door to a unique world of encounters, pleasure, knowledge and experiences. We want to provide you as many possibilities to explore, whether its shopping around for a top brand product at a cheaper price, planning a wonderful holiday, finding a new partner or taking a punt at winning a small fortune.

We’re here for you, 100 percent of the time.

Live well, live happy, keep on rocking!

Exciting changes at Wanobe

Wanobe is really following up on our reader survey a few weeks back by delivering some exciting new options.

You asked for more community enhancing things to do, so we have now launched a movie clip gallery where you can place your video clips on Wanobe, open either to your family and friends or available for everyone visiting the site.

I really hope you find this new function easy and fun to use – and, remember, it’s free.

We have also updated the look and feel of our astrology pages. Now you can read what Wanobe’s inhouse astrologer Patrick Arundell believes the stars have in store for you today, tomorrow, during the week or month ahead in a easier-to-read style.

Even more great things are happening now or are in the pipeline.

Wanobe now gives you the opportunity from your own home to visit a virtual hospital, probably the first of its kind in the UK, to get in touch with GMC registered doctors. Apart from providing advice, they’ll also be able to issue prescriptions for a number of treatments for problems such as erectile dysfunction or weight issues and you can have the medicines delivered to your home.

We like this service so much that we have negotiated a 10% discount for everyone from Wanobe who signs as a member at UK-Med during May. Just go the the Wellbeing section for more information, or click here on UK-Med .

These type of enhancements to the Wanobe site are just the start of some exciting new developments. So please stay with us, and tell your friends and family about all the benefits and fun things you can find at Wanobe.com.

Keep on rocking, Dave

Silent killer

It was scary to learn the other day that high blood pressure may account for more than 13 percent of premature deaths around the world.

An article in the The Lancet medical journal wrote that researchers found that in 2001, the latest year for which complete global data were available, around 8 million early deaths could be attributed to high blood pressure.

Hypertension was also claimed to be responsible for 54 percent of strokes and 47 percent of heart disease worldwide.

I have always thought high blood pressure was principally a problem in high income western countries. But the latest findings show that 80 percent of deaths linked to high blood pressure now occur in the developing world, with half of the fatalities among people of working age.

According to The Lancet article writers little substantive or sustained effort has been made to address an issue that has probably killed over 50 million people in the past decade, disabled many more, and taken billions of dollars from already fragile economies.

However, there is hope on the horizon. Both the WHO and World Bank have now highlighted the importance of chronic disease as an obstacle to economic development. They recommend action to control the huge epidemics of cardiovascular diseases already affecting Asia and South America and threatening other regions, including Africa.

The Lancet writers noted global expenditure on antihypertensive treatment is around €50 billion each year, more than 90 percent of which is spent in high-income countries, where the main debate about access concerns the provision of care to very-low-risk individuals. Middle-income and low-income regions have a five times greater burden of disease than do high-income regions, with access to less than 10 percent of the global treatment resource.

Keep on rocking, Dave

Still rocking and rolling …

I remember first hearing the Rolling Stones perform life back in the early days of their career and being totally wowed by their energy. I am still amazed by their music making and ability to bounce around the stage performing at break-neck speed despite their ages.

I am also really looking forward to seeing the new film they have made with Martin Scorsese, Shine a Light. Judging by what Mick Jagger said in his interview with Wanobe.com, the film promises to be a scorcher.

I know that one of the reasons for Mick Jagger’s ability to shake those hips of his the way he does is because he works hard at staying in shape. That’s a life attitude we should all try to learn from.

I just read a recent study that shows how regularly doing gentle yoga exercises can help reduce the risk of older people falling painfully. The US study found that just eight weeks of classes to improve muscle strength, balance and flexibility makes falls and fractures less likely to happen.

An extra bonus is that people, and especially women, who practised yoga designed for the over 65s also felt more confident and upbeat. The study was carried out by researcher Dr Jinsup Song at Philadelphia’s Temple University.

So there you have it folks. If you want to stay in top performer shape like Mick, start some gentle yoga.

Rock on, yoga it up!

Have fun, travel safe, Dave

Determined to stay young…

Living life out loud for a great many mature people is all about doing their very best to stay ‘forever young’.

Eating healthy, staying fit are all the rage among folks approaching retirement, as is use of cosmetic surgery, botox and medical hair transplants for men and women alike.

For many of us born between 1946 and 1964 (so-called Baby Boomers), we expect scientific advancements and genetic research to help us out and maybe enable a great life past 100. We aren’t afraid to find a pill cure for every health and fitness issue that challenges our mobility and ability to live life to the fullest, from Viagra to vitamin pills.

Regular exercise apparently is highly valuable. Research by the University of Florida showed that a well-designed program combining aerobic, strength, balance and flexibility exercises could make a difference in maintaining mobility functions.

The study’s findings revealed a common concern. When asked what they were most afraid of, most of the respondents didn’t put cancer or other age-related diseases on their list – top was loss of independence.

Now, if all I have to do to stay out of the nursing home is to stay as fit as possible by walking, running, swimming, then I am totally hooked!

So here’s a business idea for all you fit folks over 40 looking for something new to do. Why not start offering fitness or wellness programs targeted at older adults? Today’s population of older adults is so large, I am sure anyone serving the health and well-being needs of the older adult will do extremely well.

So on with the trainers and out on that track, boys and girls. Shake that lethargy off and get with the action…

Rock on, Wanobians. Live long, live well, play a lot.

Dave

Dance, read and play more …

Were you aware that after the age of 60 the brain starts shrinking fairly dramatically, losing between half-a-percent to one percent of its volume every year?
While some of my friends may say that I’ve been suffering that kind of wastage since my teens, I found it fascinating to read recently that you can slow the brain-drain by increasing your mental and physical exercise.

According to John Ratey, author of a book published in January called ‘Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain’, “exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain”.

And as a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, John if anyone should know.

John Ratey believes that by getting and keeping your body in shape, you mind will follow along. He bases his belief on the fact that because we evolved as physical hunter-gatherers our bodies and minds need regular exercise in our sedentary world to avoid growing flabby.

The American psychiatrist claims all form of exercise, especially aerobic but even walking, improves cognitive performance, reduces feelings of stress and can even diminish addictions and the consequences of hormonal changes of women.

Apparently, our brains need to be challenged to learn. By optimising the brain through giving it constant and challenging mental and physical exercise, we can gain the key to a longer, healthier life.

So, get with the action folks. Keep your mind agile by keeping your body in shape. Everything helps apparently – dancing, reading, playing board games, having sex or playing a musical instrument.

Rock on, Wanobians. Live long, live well, play a lot.

Dave