Average Body Mass Index around the world. The full infographic is available after the jump.  Weight of the World | Visual.ly via kwout

Timing Water Consumption for Optimal Benefits – Lifehack via kwout

It’s the beginning of the year and time for new resolutions. Therefore here is a chart that list the 13 essential vitamins to be healthy all year long. After the jump there, the full chart explains also where to find them. Enjoy .  More Than Supplemental | S.B.LattinDesign via kwout   Found via LifeHacker.

There are more information in the American Institute for cancer research, but basically:  Sitting Too Much Can Hurt Health Adding Breaks Can Help CRU: Sitting, Moving, Coffee, Vitamin D and Cancer Risk – American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) via kwout Found via makeuseof

In this Santa Barbara Independent article, there is an interesting explanation of why French don’t get fat whereas "they eat three times as much saturated animal fat as Americans do." The article author Michael Seabaugh quotes  Laurence Hauben an expert on the subject: “The French don’t traditionally wolf down a meal at their desk or while [...]

because you value your body  published an amazing post on 62 Little Known Uses Of Vinegar. Unfortunately this web site is actually suspended. But it is still possible to browse the site via a RSS feed reader like Google Reader. And fortunately Google Reader offers the ability to share a post from a RSS feed [...]

In the TED presentation below, Dr Dean Ornish provides some insight about the rise of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases accros the globe.

because you value your body published an article listing funny facts about alcohol. There is a list of hangover translation in several languages: The French call it ‘wood mouth’ Germans refer to it as ‘wailing of the cats’ Italians call it ‘out of tune’ Malaysians call it ‘lo’ Norwegians identify it as ‘carpenters in the head’ Spaniards [...]