A study on heart-healthy foods published in \"Archives of Internal Medicine\" was based on 189 previous studies involving millions of people. Vegetables, nuts and the Mediterranean diet - a diet high in vegetables, nuts, whole grains, fish and olive oil - qualified as good for the heart. Starchy carbohydrates like white bread, as well as the trans fats in many cookies and french fries qualified as bad. In between were foods like meat, eggs and milk for which there isn\'t yet enough evidence. Unfortunately, the Western diet high in processed and red meat, refined grains and high-fat dairy may soon provide enough evidence.

Although bottled water sales have had double-digit increases for years, there\'s evidence that sales have stopped rising. Industry analysts attribute this change to the poor economy, but environmentalists may be having some effect on sales. Environmentalists concerned about our dependence on the fossil fuels used for making plastic bottles have asked people to stop drinking bottled water and have asked states to increase recycling programs. Americans spent more than $11 billion on bottled water in 2008. Now sales are down 1%. While non-decomposing, plastic water bottles unnecessarily fill our land fills, they also unnecessarily unfill our wallets.

Micro cars give high fuel efficiency of 30 mpg or more at competitive prices between $12,000 and $18,000, which is good for our wallets. The bad news is that crash tests released by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that drivers of the 2009 models of the Smart \"for two\", Honda Fit and Toyota Yaris could sustain significant leg and head injuries in a severe, front-end crash with mid-size vehicles - and a crash at 40 mph qualifies as a severe crash. Although there is a saying that the best things come in small packages - maybe they aren\'t the safest things.

Break dancing isn\'t safe. German researchers interviewed 144 professional and amateur break-dancers and found that injuries to the spine, knee, wrist, shoulder and ankle are common - especially among professionals. Not one professional interviewed had an injury-free history and only 4% of the amateurs did. Seventy percent said they also suffered from overuse injuries, like carpal tunnel syndrome and tenosynovitis, an inflammation of tendon sheaths. To make matters worse, breakers gave themselves an average of only 6 days to heal after an injury. Although the researchers suggested safer training methods, their suggestion that breakers wear protective gear probably won\'t get a break.