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Treadmill test endorsement scanted factsYour paper's contribution to the recent media blitz intended to soften the blow of the treadmill emissions test is disappointing, given your perpetuation of bad "facts" on which the blitz relies and on which misinformed individuals and organizations have chosen to support the test.I'll give but two examples:Check the math. We are told (in American Lung Association commercials) that the test will reduce emissions by 71 tons per day. We are also told by officials (as quoted in The Sun on Sept.

For all its allure, the American Dream has always come with strings attached. The catch is that hard work and long hours on the job are part and parcel of getting ahead and making money. Family life often pays the price, of course -- a bargain that makes many Americans queasy.Bob Israel, co-owner of a motion-picture ad agency in Los Angeles, knows the feeling well."At some point during the day, I look at my watch, and I'm faced with, 'Do I go home now and spend a little more time with my kids before they go to bed, or do I complete the work that I'm staring at?

Right from the start, I knew we would have problems in our relationship. We were too much alike, he and I. Type A. Achievers. The kind who love lists and checking things off. The kind who love control. And yet, as the new year rolled in with all its resolutions and promises of change, I made a commitment to him. I downloaded the app to my phone and linked myself for the foreseeable future to MyFitnessPal. He made promises, and I did, too. But could we keep them? After all, we both wanted the same thing: We were determined to get rid of the eight pounds that had crept onto my frame in the last year.

They cover endless miles, uphill and down, yet they go nowhere. Treadmill trackers. And they are multiplying because you don't have to learn any new skills to exercise on a treadmill, and the machines are less stressful on joints and muscles than many other fitness gadgets.According to the Fitness Products Council and American Sports Data Inc.:* From 1996 to 1997, sales of treadmills for home use alone boosted sales of fitness equipment by 14 percent, to more than $3 billion.* Treadmills accounted for $1.6 billion in consumer spending in 1997, compared to $725 million in 1996.

Kaci DeWitt-Rickards remembers being a chunky kid with a steady diet of Burger King chicken tenders, vanilla milkshakes and Papa John's pizza. By her sophomore year in college at the University of Miami, her adolescent pudge had ballooned into a weight problem. The 5-foot-4 exercise physiology major hit her heaviest weight ever that fall in 2010, weighing in at 167 pounds. She felt bad about herself and didn't have a lot of energy. But most of all, she felt like a hypocrite as she studied for a career to help people stay fit. "If you're going to go out and teach a healthy lifestyle, you have to live it," DeWitt-Rickards remembers a professor saying that fall semester.

Monitoring the heart with an exercise treadmill, one of the most common tests used to identify people at risk of a heart attack, may not be as effective as previously thought.The exercise test may fail to predict up to 80 percent of exercise-related heart attacks in apparently healthy men, according to a 10-year study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda .An exercise treadmill test consists of placing electrodes on the chest while a person runs or walks on a treadmill.

HOUSTON -- A new census report released today paints a harrowing picture of the 5.3 million mothers of childbearing age who were receiving food stamps during the summer of 1993.The women, between the ages of 15 and 44, were younger when they first became mothers; had more children to raise; and were far more likely than other women their age to never have been married, never to have held a steady job and never to have gotten a full education.The mothers, studied as part of a continued look at women getting government aid, represented 15 percent of the 36 million mothers of childbearing age in the nation.

In 1977, Mick Jagger first sang, "Start me up, I'll never stop."Now, at 54, as the Rolling Stones begin their "Bridges to Babylon" tour, the legendary rocker has proved that phrase was more than a lyric. It's a way of life."He's lean, he's athletic, he's out there running around like a 16-year-old," says Greg Isaacs, corporate fitness director for Warner Bros. and personal trainer for celebrities including Melanie Griffith and Goldie Hawn. "I doubt he eats cheeseburgers every day."Other aging acts, such as the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac, have hit the road lately as well.

Joy and Grant Pivec's palatial new home rests as a columned tribute to country gentility at the end of a half-mile-long, gravel driveway in northern Baltimore County. Just a couple of months from completion, the interior is about to be painted. Joy Pivec stands in the midst of exposed drywall, in what will soon be her state-of-the-art kitchen. She speaks first about a master plan, one that preceded the custom design of this house. Her in-laws, Sharon and Dave Pivec, nurtured dreams of a family compound, one on which they, and all three of their children, would eventually build four homes on land off Old York Road.

Ignoring an explicit warning that the federal government will punish the state for failing to meet clean air standards, the House of Delegates gave final approval yesterday to legislation that would keep Maryland's treadmill-like vehicle emissions test voluntary.The bill now goes to Gov. Parris N. Glendening for signature or veto. Although three of his Cabinet secretaries have lobbied against the bill, Glendening has declined to say what he will do.The House voted 83-46 to approve the bill after hearing jTC assurances from a committee chairman that the state would have 18 to 24 months to negotiate with the Environmental Protection Agency to avoid sanctions that could cost the state as much as $98 million in transportation funds.