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Earlier this summer I wrote about one of the latest three news articles to shake up the summer dieter’s doldrums, an article in the Washington Post about the new federal dietary guidelines that de-emphasizes breakfast. (The Weight Loss Agenda Just Got Messier) Today I wish to tackle the age-old dispute first proffered by Dr. Atkins:Read More
Earlier this summer, three news articles blasted out of the summer doldrums to shake up everyone’s ideas about weight management and dieting. In a likely futile effort to reconcile what each says with what the scientists are trying to say, I will address each in its own right in this three part series. First, thereRead More
The latest controversy, which we’ve seen played out over the past 30 years, comes to you from two doctors: one, a pediatrician, the other a researcher in weight management. The former wrote in the NY Times; the latter wrote in an exercise science newsletter. The former used a lot of research to stand on hisRead More
A couple weeks ago, I posted Part 1 of this discussion on weight management – Why Diets Don’t Actually Work. Here’s the rest of the story – how to manage weight with two, or a couple more, simple rules…. In the second part of the interview, a few days later, Dr Mann reveals two ‘secrets’Read More
An article in the Washington Post, “Why Diets Don’t Actually Work, According to a Researcher Who Has Studied Them for Decades” (May 4, 2015), has excited the air- and ether-waves, especially among those organizations – and trainers – who promote weight loss diets. It’s no wonder: the researcher, Dr. Traci Mann, U of Minnesota, claimsRead More
A recent article on-line declares that researchers are homing in on what it called “the perfect amount of exercise for a longer life”. As you might imagine, reading beyond the headline could be grounds for, well, uh, for learning the secrets of longevity that Cortez was seeking 500 years ago. It turns out that twoRead More
Trying to keep up with what’s going on in the fitness/wellness sciences is difficult. Every time some new ‘thing’ hits the media, it stirs up interest from many of my clients in the meaning and value this new thing presents. They trust me to sift through the BS and provide a PhD view of it.Read More
www.exerciseetc.com) would attest, and an avid reader of the art and science of exercise and training. So when he blogs (http://marinosbodyshop.com/page/blog.html), it’s worth taking note. One of his blogs – Can Serious ACL Injuries In Young Female Athletes Be Prevented? (http://marinosbodyshop.com/posts/1150/ ) – goes through a fairly detailed analysis of the epidemiology of anterior cruciateRead More
My buddy, Mike Deibler, from San Diego, a Masters in Exercise Science and a speaker with Exercise ETC, has posted this piece about spot reducing: Don’t Burn Fat This Way In Mike’s succinct and quite manner, he hits the nail on the head, spot on: there is no good way to spot reduceRead More
Two articles in Health Canal, an online health blog of recent scientific publications, prompt me to comment as this issue is rapidly coming to the forefront of the obesity crisis. The first identifies functions within the brains of obese people (and for the the sake of discussion, most likely includes those who are very overweightRead More
