Day 155: Promoting good health

Today's inane image of the day:

This is the second set of chocolate cupcakes I made over break... they're significantly darker in color and more rich in chocolate flavor probably because of the addition of coffee [I also used more butter...]. [Yes, I realize that I am opposing the title of this entry with this photo. My sincerest apologies... everything in moderation!]

Instead of spending our day off [thank you Dr. King for your positive impact on our society and this wonderful 3-day weekend!] from classes sitting around and reading books [we do have a quiz tomorrow!], a number of us spent the morning or afternoon volunteering to do health screenings at a local Forgotten Harvest drop off site. At the location I went to, each of us rotated through 4 stations: blood pressure, blood glucose, flu shots and BMI. It was a wonderful opportunity to give back to the community, as well as practice our skills.

After returning home, I found a wonderfully illustrated and well-timed video entitled, "23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health?" -- I promise it'll be worth your 9 minutes!

And here's one more awesome video making a staircase more appealing than the escalator:

P.S. I started using Tumblr to reblog other interesting posts [all medically-related]. For the time being, I will stay faithful to the Blogger platform for my personal entries, but you should still check it out [and follow me if you have an account!]: http://amandaxi.tumblr.com/