If you missed our daily postings this past week, we invite you to take some time to catch up on our prior week's news and gear up for a new week of healthy living information and inspiration.

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Have a great week everyone!

Stephen King's new book Just After Sunset is a collection of short stories. In the story Stationary Bike, King covers extreme diet and fitness in his signature spooky style.

When artist Richard Sifkitz learns from his doctor that his cholesterol and his weight are a little too high, he's concerned. His doctor explains that his metabolism is like a work crew, and when Richard pours fast food down his gullet, the crew has to work overtime. They get grumpy and tired, and sometimes they even quit and go home, which leads to weight gain and health problems. Sifkitz goes home and draws a picture of his "metabolism" -- four guys in a road crew, employed by the company "Lipid."

He puts a stationary bike in his basement and draws a mural on the wall. Pretty soon, he's biking two hours a night and curtailing his eating habits to the extreme, but strange things start happening. He ends up riding in the mural, and let's just say his work crew is less than pleased that he's taken their livelihood away from him.

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One of the scariest moments in my own movie-watching history was when Pennywise peeked through the sewer grate in Stephen King's It.

There's a reason why clowns are routinely used to scare adults -- they scared us when we were kids too. That's what a recent poll of children in London found when the University of Sheffield questioned kids age 4-16 in an effort to improve the look of area hospital children's wards. Every child polled -- 250 in all -- reported disliking clowns, and many (even the older children) reported being afraid of them.

I think it's safe to say that children's wards in London won't be seeing any large clown murals when the redecorating starts!

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