That's Fit

Your Total Health correspondent Hoda Kotb sat down with actor Kevin Bacon this past week and learned a thing or two about the man who has starred in more than 60 movies and can be linked to almost every actor in six easy steps.

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is the name of this game, a popular sport played across college campuses in the 1990s, and now it's not only celebrities you might link to Bacon. You can also link yourself -- in just one easy step.

Besides acting -- and singing with his brother in the band The Bacon Brothers -- Bacon is busy making a difference with his newly launched website SixDegrees.org. He wants you to check it out. The purpose of his site is to raise money for various charities -- donations can be made online -- by linking celebrities with causes. Jennifer Love Hewitt and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are a pair, for example. So are Eva LaRue and the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition, and Natasha Richardson and the Foundation for AIDS Research. The list of causes and celebrities go on. But more notable are the regular people who are linking themselves to causes -- and to Kevin Bacon too.

More than 4,000 profiles of everyday folks populate this site. It's more than celebrities now, says Bacon. It's thousands of people, like you and me, championing their own causes.

It's about giving back, Bacon told Kotb about his desire to raise money and social consciousness at the same time. And then he revealed some of his health secrets. Here are a few: Kevin Bacon takes a nap every day. He puts his feet up, his hands across his chest, and he sleeps. He's addicted to this healthy practice, he says, and feels quite cranky if he misses his daily siesta. He also practices a hated exercise called Super Slow which involves lifting very heavy weights in a super slow manner. It's enough to make you puke, remarks Bacon who says some days, his least favorite body part is his face. I say that face is a quite an asset. Without it, this whole six degrees thing never would have been.