Former Marine George Hood of Carlsbad Sets Abdominal Plank Record of 5 Hours and 15 Minutes

The video's cool. They're down at the Oceanside Pier, at the amphitheater.

He went 5 hours, 15 minutes, and 15 seconds.

Watch: "Local man sets new record for longest held plank."

And at the San Diego Union-Tribune, "Marine vet obliterates 'planking' record."

How Charlotte McKinney Maintains Her Bombshell Figure

All natural.

At People, "DWTS Cast-Off Charlotte McKinney: What I Eat in a Day."



BONUS: At Puff Ho, "Charlotte McKinney Channels Kate Upton In New Topless Shoot."

Kelly Brook in Los Angeles

Turns out she's trying the Atkins Diet to shed a few pounds.

Busty as ever, that's for sure.

At the Mirror UK, "Kelly Brook shows off cleavage in busty beach workout as she embraces California life."

Also at London's Daily Mail, "Kelly Brook almost spills out of low-cut work out vest as she flashes her cleavage in multi-coloured sports bra on the beach," and "Dip it low! Kelly Brook continues with her weight-loss mission as she shares video of her working out in low cut top on the beach."

BONUS: "Flower power! Kelly Brook rocks a floral headband as she poses for a series of busty bikini selfies with her Los Angeles 'roomie'."

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Nestlé Fitness Breast Cam Captures Stolen Glances All Day Long

At the Mighty, "This Woman Wore a Hidden Camera in Her Bra for the Best Reason."

Also at NYDN, "WATCH: London woman's 'Bra Cam' catches men, women sneaking a peek."

Erin Andrews: America's Babe, Now More Than Ever

She's so sweet --- and smokin' hot.

At USA Today, "Erin Andrews reflects on her life in health."

Thank you @usatoday pic.twitter.com/Sxc46rt7Uw

— Erin Andrews (@ErinAndrews) September 19, 2014

BONUS FLASHBACK: "New Erin Andrews Bikini Pics!"

How Erin Andrews Stays So Fit

At Health Magazine, "Erin Andrews: On Staying Energized, Working Out, and Being Outspoken."

The September issue of @goodhealth is available today! pic.twitter.com/BbdSvjrpM8

— Erin Andrews (@ErinAndrews) August 15, 2014

Back From the Colonoscopy

I mentioned my procedure this morning.

The test itself is a cakewalk. It's the bowel-cleansing preparations that were a pain. But I'm clean, no polyps, and I won't have to have it done again for ten years.

I'm reading Instapundit, who's blogged about his colonoscopies quite a bit. Here's the search link, but see especially, "I'M HOME FROM HAVING A COLONOSCOPY":

A colonoscopy isn't just a diagnostic test — if they find polyps, they can remove them, making it virtually certain that you won't get colon cancer. If you skip that because of squeamishness, well, you're just an idiot. Luckily, I was clean and don't have to go back for five years. By then, they may have replaced them with swallowable cameras, with actual scoping only when there’s something that needs fixing. At any rate, though, there aren't many simple safe procedures that can absolutely prevent cancer, and this is one. Don't forego it because you're squeamish.

I'm not sure why folks would be squeamish with the procedure; it was easy. After I was taken into the pre-op area, the nurses had me sign the final forms, hooked up my blood pressure monitor and chest nodes, and inserted the IV. The test itself took 10 minutes at most. The nurses gave me mild drug which was like a relaxant. I had no side effects and went out for a nice breakfast with my wife immediately after.

As noted, the preparation is unpleasant, and from reading around yesterday, avoiding the prep is one of the reasons people have skipped this screening. Perhaps the newer procedures will be coming available soon, like the miniature camera pill that takes images while traveling through your bowel. Until then, I'd do this again tomorrow if I needed to screen against colon cancer.

No More Colonoscopies?

Here's this, just as I go today for my first colonoscopy.

At WSJ, "New Ways to Screen for Colon Cancer No More Colonoscopies? Less-Invasive Methods Are Coming."

RELATED: At NYT, "Colon Cancer Screening Saves Lives." (Via Instapundit.)

Sofia Vergara for Women's Health Magazine

A lovely lady.

At London's Daily Mail, "'I have a great a**!': Sofia Vergara, 41, shows off her perfect figure in a seductive shoot for Women's Health."

Weightlifting Mom Lea-Anne Ellison Back to the Gym Just Three Weeks After Giving Birth

Remember the lady who was doing those overhead snatch lifts in (what looked like) her third trimester.

She's looking incredible now!

At London's Daily Mail, "'My baby is great and I'm back in the gym!' New mother whose pregnant-weightlifting photos sparked media storm continues to defy her critics."

'Hot-shaming really is a thing now...'

Well, you can't be flaunting your hotness, heh.

At Instapundit, "THAT’S THE LAST TIME I WORK OUT AT THE HARRISON BERGERON FITNESS CLUB: Gym Tells Hot, Fit Woman to Cover Up Because She’s Intimidating Others. 'Hot-shaming really is a thing now'."

How to Tell You're Having a Heart Attack?

News you can use, at CBS This Morning, "Heart health: Breaking down myths and reality."

Smokin' Jennifer Nicole Lee Wet T-Shirt and Bikini Bottom at Miami Beach

This lady loves showing off for the cameras.

At Egotastic!, "Jennifer Nicole Lee Splishy-Splashy Nippletastic Wet T-Shirt Attack on Miami Beach."

Rachel Fredrickson, 'The Bigger Loser' Winner, Sparks Social Media Outrage

At the San Francisco Chronicle, "Social media erupt over 'Biggest Loser' winner":

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A day after Rachel Fredrickson won the latest season of "The Biggest Loser," after shedding nearly 60 percent of her body weight, attention wasn't focused on her $250,000 win — but rather the criticism surrounding her loss.

Experts cautioned that regardless of her current weight, the criticism being levied on social media about her losing too much isn't helpful. A more constructive message is needed, they say, centering on overall healthy living and body image.

The 5-foot-4, 24-year-old Frederickson dropped from 260 pounds to 105 under the show's rigorous exercise and diet regimen, and time spent on her own before the finale. She was a three-time state champion swimmer at Stillwater Area High School in Minnesota, then turned to sweets for solace after a failed romance with a foreign exchange student she followed to his native Germany.

Frederickson's newly thin frame lit up Twitter on Wednesday, with many viewers pointing to the surprised expressions on the faces of trainers Jillian Michaels and Bob Harper during the show's Tuesday night finale. Many tweeted that Fredrickson looked anorexic and unhealthy, while others congratulated her for dropping 155 pounds.

Frederickson's body mass index, a measure of height and weight, is below the normal range, said Jillian Lampert, senior director of the Emily Program, an eating disorder treatment program based in St. Paul, Minn. But she said the criticism directed against Frederickson isn't helpful.

"As a society we often criticize people for being at higher weights — that's part of why we have the TV show 'The Biggest Loser' — and then we feel free to criticize lower weight," Lampert said.

A more constructive message to send young people would center on well-rounded health and the importance of eating well, moving well and sleeping well, she said.

"We certainly see a lot of people who struggle with eating disorders who use the same behaviors on that show to an extreme," she said. "That can't be helpful."

Well, she does look pretty thin, but you're supposed to focus on "body size diversity," so stop with the skinny shaming you intolerant freaks!

More at the link.

New Guidelines: Heart-Risk Strategy Gets Major Shake-Up

At WSJ, "Panel Unveils Shake-up in Strategy to Cut Heart Risk: Long-standing Strategy Jettisoned Under New Guidelines":

The current strategy of reducing a person's heart-attack risk by lowering cholesterol to specific targets is being jettisoned under new clinical guidelines unveiled Tuesday that mark the biggest shift in cardiovascular-disease prevention in nearly three decades.

The change could more than double the number of Americans who qualify for treatment with the cholesterol-cutting drugs known as statins.

The guidelines recommend abandoning the familiar and easy-to-understand guidance to keep LDL, or bad cholesterol, below 100 or below 70 for people at high risk—a mainstay of current prevention policy. Instead, doctors are being urged to assess a patient's risk more broadly and prescribe statins to those falling into one of four risk categories.

The aim is to more effectively direct statin treatment to patients with the most to gain, and move away from relatively arbitrary treatment targets that are less reliable in predicting risk of attack than is widely believed.

"We're trying to focus the most appropriate therapy to prevent heart attack and stroke...in a wide range of patients," said Neil J. Stone, professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and head of the panel that wrote the guidelines.


Cardiovascular disease is the Western world's leading killer. In the U.S., it accounts for about 600,000 deaths each year, or about one in four. About 130,000 Americans die annually of stroke.

Numerous studies show that statins reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. But solid data demonstrating the benefit of reaching specific targets are lacking, said Dr. Stone.

While lowering the LDL number remains a critical goal, the focus is on the risk reduction achieved with statins rather than the effect on LDL, said Donald Lloyd-Jones, chief of preventive medicine at Northwestern and a member of the guidelines panel.

Cardiologists expect the recommendations, jointly developed by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association, to substantially change the conversation between doctors and millions of patients over the best way to lower their risk of heart attack or stroke.

The risk groups identified in the guidelines include patients who have already had a heart attack, stroke or major symptoms of cardiovascular disease; those with an LDL of 190 or higher, which typically has a genetic cause; people with diabetes; and anyone ages 40 to 79 who faces a 7.5% risk of having a heart attack over the next 10 years, according to a new risk score. That score—with a lower threshold than under current guidelines—takes into account cholesterol level, smoking status, blood pressure and other factors.

All are recommended to take high or moderate statin doses that would result in LDL reductions of about 30% to more than 50%. If fully implemented, the guidelines could more than double the number of people who qualify for statins, to more than 30 million, the authors said.

The new approach is likely to have a modest immediate effect on the pharmaceutical industry. All but one of the statins available, including Lipitor, have lost patent protection and are available as inexpensive generics.

I'm not in any of those risk categories, although pharmacological treatment is the wave of medicine these days. If these medications are that effective, and less expensive generics are available, it makes sense to adjust treatment regimes to help the largest number of individuals.

Interesting, in any case.

More at the link.

'Strong is the New Skinny' - Jennifer Nicole Lee Flaunts Smokin' Hot Body in New Fitness Program Rollout

Well, she's certainly the perfect spokeswoman for "strong is the new skinny."

What a lady. Wow!

At London's Daily Mail, "Holy Batgirl! Jennifer Nicole Lee makes a splash in superhero bikini bottoms while promoting her fitness program."

Previous J. Nicole Lee blogging here.

'If the bar ain't bendin', then you're just pretendin'...'

Hugh Jackman's a bad mf.

Via Twitter.

Jennifer Nicole Lee Topless in Miami

I've posted on this lady quite a bit.

Maybe she's upping the wow! factor.

At Egotastic!, "Jennifer Nicole Lee Bikini Pictures Falling Off to Beat the Heat."