GET YOUR KICKS
With 32 teams and a global audience for World Cup matches, soccer’s on stage this summer, and manufacturers and retailers aren’t missing the chance to flog jerseys and duffel bags, caps and shoes. Not making the trek to
Deutschland for the games? You can still look the part by ordering jerseys on fifaworldcupstore.com, above, and stores from Target (check out its online exclusives, such as this
duffel bag) and Wal-Mart to Sports Authority are featuring clothes, balls and accessories from Adidas and Puma for soccer moms, dads and kids.
CALORIE SCENE INVESTIGATOR
Charles Stuart Platkin, a.k.a. the Diet Detective, has launch Dietdetective.com, a website that debunks fad diets, offers quizzes on your ability to lose weight and keep it off, and gives tips for dining out without pigging out. This week he focuses on cycling, noting that bike riding is one of most efficient calorie-burning activities around. Riding at a leisurely pace of 10 to 12 mph, a 155-pound person can burn 423 calories in just 60 minutes, or about 7 calories per minute. The author of books and a syndicated columnist on nutrition, fitness and health topics, Platkin has a master’s degree in public health and a law degree.
ALL HEART
Many are forewarned, but heart attacks nonetheless come as rude awakenings to everybody. “The Cardiac Recovery Handbook” (Hatherleigh Press; $15.95) is a sober, thorough guide to – as the book’s subtitle promises – life after a heart attack or heart surgery. In fact, the book comes with information that should be useful to anyone at an increased risk of having a heart attack. The book, 316 pages strong, is no CliffsNotes to heart health, but a glossary in the back should help readers keep up with what might be considered sentences that are too technical. The handbook covers medications, lifestyle choices and the emotional factors involved in recovering from a heart attack. Each chapter also includes relevant questions that recovering patients may want to ask their doctors. | LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
