Man Up for Good Health!

By Jim Mittler, PhD, Medical Director, Palio

According to the Mayo Clinic, men have few health threats ? heart disease, cancer, and unintentional injury (be careful with those power saws!), which is a good thing because research shows men are less likely than women to see a physician. However, with rising rates of obesity, diabetes, and impact-related injuries, men cannot afford to take a casual approach to maintaining good health.

June is Men?s Health Month and it?s a good opportunity to raise awareness of health issues affecting men. While there?s no substitution for regular medical advice and early treatment for disease and injury, technology is putting better health in the palm of men?s hands through apps and online services.

With ZocDoc, men who aren?t afraid to see the doctor can search for physicians or dentists in many major U.S. markets by specialty or insurance coverage. Accessible on Android, BlackBerry or iPhone devices, users can read reviews or book an appointment.

For men hesitant to visit their physician, myHealthMate, offers a symptom checker where users can tap a body graphic to navigate symptoms relating to more than 20 areas of the male body and receive health tips relevant to their symptoms.

For guys who like to crunch numbers, Cake Health makes tracking all insurance and health care expenses a piece of cake. With everything consolidated into a single place, men can track just how much they?re paying for health care and understand the investment they?re making in their well-being.

Making a commitment to exercise is also good for men seeking to eliminate visceral fat and improve their health. For two bucks, Men?s Health Workouts provides a personal trainer in your pocket, offering exercises and workouts logs ? perfect for anyone striving to improve strength and conditioning. For men wanting the motivation of professional sports trainers, FitPlay app provides on-demand video workouts on the iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. Whether passionate about yoga, cycling, kettlebell training, tennis, golf, or strengthening the core, access to the same workouts used by professional athletes is just a click away.

However, exercise alone isn?t enough to reach health goals. Diet is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. That?s why Weight watchers mobile makes it easy to track points, monitor intake and ensure healthy food is incorporated in the daily diet. Think Weight Watchers is just for women? Don?t tell that to the round mound of rebound Charles Barkley, encouraging men in and out of the locker room to man up and lose like a man.

If health tracking and exercise apps aren?t enough to keep guys motivated to manage their weight, Retrofit offers the benefit of weekly Skype sessions with a registered dietician, a psychologist, and a ?mind-set coach.? Retrofit monitors a subscriber?s weight via a wireless scale so that a coach can reach out if the number starts to rise. The company?s motto is ?We want you to keep weight off.?

Maintaining good health is more than watching what you eat and increasing exercise. Sleep also plays a factor in good health. Getting appropriate shut eye is beneficial for curbing hunger, reducing inflammation and better immune system response. Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock analyzes sleep patterns and ensures men wake up rested and ready to greet the day.

Software developers have gone a long way towards helping men (and women) better engage with their health, diet, and fitness in a more personal and individualized way. Men?s Health Month may only be 30 days long, but the benefits of these innovative applications can have long-lasting effects.

Palio is an advertising agency revolutionizing pharmaceutical and healthcare marketing to create experiences that will?Never Be Forgotten.

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Hundreds evacuated as western wildfires grow

LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) ? Firefighters on Sunday were fighting wildfires that have spread quickly in parched forests in Colorado and New Mexico, forcing hundreds of people from their homes and the evacuation of wolves from a sanctuary.

The Colorado fire, burning in a mountainous area about 15 miles west of Fort Collins, grew to 22 square miles within about a day of being reported and has destroyed or damaged 18 structures. A fire near the mountain community of Ruidoso in southern New Mexico began Friday and was listed at 40 square miles Sunday due to better mapping. It has destroyed at least 20 structures.

It wasn't immediately clear how many of the structures lost were homes, as opposed to outbuildings. The smell of smoke drifted into the Denver area and smoke from the fires spread as far away as parts central Nebraska, western Kansas and Texas.

The latest New Mexico fire is smaller than the Whitewater-Baldy fire ? the largest in the state's history ? but it's more concerning to authorities because it started closer to homes, said Dan Ware, a spokesman for the New Mexico State Forestry Division. He said the number of Ruidoso evacuees was in the hundreds, but he didn't have an exact figure.

Firefighters also were battling a wildfire that blackened 6 square miles in Wyoming's Guernsey State Park and forced the evacuation of campers and visitors.

Cooler weather was helping firefighters in their battle Sunday against two other wildfires in southern Utah.

In Colorado, authorities sent 1,600 evacuation notices to phone numbers but it wasn't immediately clear how many residents had to leave. About 500 people had checked in at Red Cross shelters.

Law officers went door to door to alert people in the evacuation area on Saturday, with flames licking at some of those units, Larimer County sheriff Justin Smith said. He said there was an unconfirmed report of a person unaccounted for, but he wouldn't elaborate.

Authorities say it's the worst fire seen in the county in about 25 years. It spread as fast as 1 1 1/2 miles an hour Saturday, skipping and jumping over some areas but burning intensely in trees in others. Flames were coming dangerously close to deputies who were telling some residents to evacuate, Sheriff Justin Smith said.

Because of the erratic way the fire has burned, unburned structures within the fire perimeter remain at risk.

Kathie Walter and her husband helped friends several miles away evacuate from the Colorado fire on Saturday. When they got home, they were surprised to get a call warning them to be ready to evacuate just in case. But Walter didn't want to wait.

"Smoke was coming in hard. We could not see flames or orange or black smoke. But we didn't need see anymore. We just said 'Hey, let's get out of here,'" she said.

They evacuated with their five cats and two dogs. They had a head start. After a wildfire in the area last year, they had left two suitcases packed in their garage.

Elaine Mantle and her family got a call to evacuate their Bellvue home at 5:45 a.m. Sunday. It took about 30 minutes for them to get out and reach a spillover shelter at the Budweiser Event Center in Loveland. Evacuees gathered there for a fire briefing, sipping coffee and eating bananas and powdered doughnuts, in a large gymnasium-like space.

It was the Mantles' first evacuation in the 25 years that they have lived in the mountains, and they were grateful to be safe.

"We're all here, we're all OK. Our neighbors are all here. We feel good," Mantle said.

She, her husband and adult daughter checked for fire information updates on their phones as they waited for the briefing to begin.

The evacuees included 11 wolves from a sanctuary near the fire. KUSA-TV in Denver reported that 19 wolves remained behind at the sanctuary, which has underground concrete bunkers known as "fire dens" that can be used by the animals.

The blaze is the latest to hit Colorado's drought-stricken Front Range. In May, a fire set by a camper's stove charred 12 square miles in the same Poudre Canyon area. In March, the Lower North Fork Fire 25 miles southwest of Denver killed three people and damaged or destroyed more than two dozen homes. That fire was triggered by a prescribed burn by the state forest service that grew out of control.

Eight air tankers ? including two from Canada ? and several helicopters were on the scene to help fight the blaze, which appeared to be burning on private and U.S. Forest Service land and was expected to be fueled by wind gusts of up 40 mph Sunday.

Wind has played a major role in the spread of both of the fires.

In New Mexico, the mix of timber, dry grass and the steepness of the slopes were making the firefighting efforts more difficult.

The fire was burning in steep, rocky, inaccessible terrain in the White Mountain Wilderness of the Lincoln National Forest, which is home to Smokey Bear, the little black cub that became the nation's symbol of fire prevention in the 1940s.

More than 300 firefighters were battling the blaze help from three large air tankers, three heavy helicopters and three Blackhawk helicopters. There were also 100 National Guard troops in Ruidoso to help as needed.

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Thomas Peipert contributed to this report from Denver and Amanda Lee Myers contributed from Phoenix.

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Incase Ari Marcopoulos Camera and iPad Bag review

Tomorrow I leave for Apple's 2012 World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) and in addition to clothes, I have to bring with me a 13-inch MacBook Air and its charger, a new iPad and its charger, a Canon 5D Mark III, extra batteries and their charger, a 50mm lens, a 24-70mm lens, a 70-200mm lens, a couple of mophie juice packs, and assorted cables. Not only do I need to keep it all together on the plane, I need to keep it with me walking to and from Moscone West, to meetings with developers, and more. That means I need a bag that's the gadget equivalent of a Dungeons & Dragons bag of holding. And the Incase Ari Marcopoulos Camera and iPad Bag might just be it.

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Frustrated liberals want more from Obama

FILE - In this June 6, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in Beverly Hills, Calif. They are trying to be hopeful, but the Democratic Party's most passionate voters are struggling to hide their frustration with President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

FILE - In this June 6, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in Beverly Hills, Calif. They are trying to be hopeful, but the Democratic Party's most passionate voters are struggling to hide their frustration with President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) ? They are trying to be hopeful, but the Democratic Party's most passionate voters are struggling to hide their frustration with President Barack Obama.

Republicans attack the president as a big-government liberal. Many liberals meeting Thursday at Netroots Nation ? it describes the annual convention as "a giant family reunion for the left" ? argue instead that Obama hasn't fought hard enough for progressive priorities on taxes, health care and the economy.

Even more problematic for the president: With the election just five months away, some are threatening not to donate money or time or even vote in November for the man who overwhelmingly ignited their passions and captured their imaginations four years ago.

"I want to be happy with him," said Democrat Kristine Vaughan, a 45-year-old school psychologist from Canton, Ohio. "But I am finding that he has succumbed to the corporate influence as much as everyone else. I think he has so much potential to break out of that, but overall he has been a disappointment."

Vaughan isn't sure whether she'll vote for Obama a second time and probably won't donate money as she did during his first campaign. She refuses to support Republican challenger Mitt Romney, but is considering writing in another candidate in protest.

The sentiment is not unique among the 2,700 people gathered on the first day of this three-day convention. More than a dozen liberals interviewed here indicated some level of frustration with the president, despite widespread praise for his recent decision to support gay marriage and ongoing push to scale back military action in the Middle East.

Most plan on voting for Obama and their gripes are not unlike what the White House has heard for much of the president's term. But these left-leaning backers' varying levels of enthusiasm could spell trouble for a president whose 2008 victory was fueled by a massive network of grass-roots volunteers and small-dollar donors. Polls show the president locked in a tight race that's likely to be decided in several swing states where he scored narrow victories four years ago. Places like Ohio, Florida and Virginia are expected to be especially competitive, and Obama will need liberal supporters to both work on his behalf and turn out in droves on Election Day.

"He's done a good job, but he could have done a lot better," said Ed Tracey, 55, of Lebanon, N.H., who heads his local chapter of the group, Drinking Liberally.

Tracey was one of Obama's many small-dollar donors four years ago, but his dissatisfaction has affected his generosity: "I decided that unless I thought he really needed it, I wouldn't contribute," he said.

Despite the criticism, polling suggests Republicans may face a larger enthusiasm gap than Democrats.

In late May, a Washington Post-ABC News poll found that 93 percent of Obama voters said they are enthusiastic about voting for him, including 51 percent who were very enthusiastic. For Romney supporters, 75 percent were enthusiastic, and just 26 percent were very enthusiastic.

Still, a closer look at the Democratic base shows an evolution of enthusiasm ? or lack thereof ? over the past four years.

The widespread belief in Obama's message of hope and change turned to frustration as the president yielded to Republican pressure by devoting a significant portion of the 2009 stimulus package to tax cuts. Liberals were further irked when he abandoned the so-called "public option" in his health care overhaul, didn't go after big banks more aggressively in his financial overhaul bill and supported the extension of Bush-era tax cuts.

Now, many say Obama is not fighting hard enough for tax increases on the wealthy to help close the federal deficit.

"I look forward to him fighting much harder," said Arshad Hasan, executive director of Democracy for America, a group founded by former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean.

But, like many liberals here, Hasan offered a mixed review of the president. He said Obama's decision to support gay marriage was "a huge accomplishment for progressives." He also was hopeful that Obama might shift further to the left should he win a second term.

"There's also a strain of thought among progressives that he's waiting until after the election to come out and be more boldly progressive," Hasan said. "I don't know which way that's going to go, but I know that either way, we get a much better deal than if Mitt Romney is elected."

Indeed, instead of hope and change, Democrats are trying to rally around their dislike for Romney, a man whom many are still getting to know.

Massachusetts-based liberal radio host Jeff Santos held the first stop of "the Real Romney tour" at the conference. The event was designed to highlight perceived weaknesses in the former Massachusetts governor's job-creation record and private-sector experience at Bain Capital, the Boston-based private equity firm he co-founded.

"He has no soul," Santos said of Romney.

Romney's association with reality television host Donald Trump drew some of the most heated criticism, especially given Romney's unwillingness to condemn Trump's repeated questioning of Obama's birthplace.

"If Mitt Romney can't stand up to a birther who's putting out racist conspiracy theories, how can he lead on other issues?" asked Rashad Robinson, executive director of Color of Change, a liberal group that promotes African-American political influence.

Robinson said some blacks now have less enthusiasm for Obama.

"President Obama hasn't done everything we wanted. But we know what Romney would do," he said. "Mitt Romney has said things like he doesn't really care about the very poor. And for a community that is facing unemployment levels the black community is facing, we may not be going to the polls with hope, but that doesn't mean we won't be turning out."

Associated Press

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