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...seen them: perfectly toned celebrities on late-night television telling us that we too can develop rock-hard abdominal muscles. It's easy! Just slap down $149.99 for the Torso Track or $149.75 for the Ab-Doer and watch those unwanted inches melt from your waist. Americans shelled out tens of millions of dollars last year on various devices to firm up their flabby midriffs...
...body and worked the abs the entire time. Among the winners: the bicycle maneuver--so called because it looks as if you are pedaling while lying flat on the floor--and exercises performed on the "Captain's Chair," a device typically found in gyms that helps hold the torso in the air while you raise your legs up toward your chest. Researchers suggested that a varied routine of the different exercises could deliver the best results...
Still want to crunch like the stars? The San Diego team found that the best of three infomercial products it studied was the Torso Track, endorsed by Suzanne Somers, which requires users to kneel on a pad and slide a handlebar forward and back, working both the abdominals and the obliques...
...body's first line of defense is to shunt blood away from the torso and out to the skin. The brain sends signals to the blood vessels, commanding them to expand in size and increase the amount of blood being pumped by the heart. Then, working much like a car's radiator, the body cools itself off by warming the air around...
...somehow so great that the behavior endured through thousands of generations. Indeed, the anatomy of our ancestors underwent all sorts of basic changes to accommodate this new way of moving. Many of the changes help the body stay balanced by stabilizing the weight-bearing leg and keeping the upper torso centered over the feet. Lovejoy, who studies the anatomy and biomechanics of locomotion, thinks the changes may have improved coordination as well. "To walk upright in a habitual way, you have to do so in synchrony," he says. "If the ligaments and muscles are out of synch, that leads...