Every trainer has his or her opinion on this matter, and every athlete still wonders: which exercises should I do first, and in what order do you plan your routine? Typically, the novice goes with the flow – whatever is available in the gym, or whatever muscle group he wants to build, regardless of whatRead More
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More Healthy News
This article discusses research that shows weight loss reduces pro-inflammatory events and substances that contribute to heart disease: http://www.healthcanal.com/immune-system/7192.html What’s cool about the study is that it also demonstrates that fat, your personal body fat, may be a better predictor of how well you’ll lose weight if you have bariatric surgery, but who knows? MaybeRead More
Weight Loss in Older Adults
Traditionally, physicians have been reluctant to encourage older adults – those over 75, for example – to lose weight since studies have shown that older adults who lose weight tend to have unnoticed medical problems. In other words, weight loss that occurs in this population is often due to disease, not desire. A recent studyRead More
Vertical Core Exercise
Now why didn’t I think of this name? Damn it – I’ve been promoting it since 1992 when I first got hold of a newfangled exercise toy, the elastic band with handles. I call it the torso rotation when you hold one end in your clasped hands directly in front of the sternum and rotateRead More
When or if to See a Doctor
If you’re an athlete, or even a weekender, or even an around-the-house piddler, and you incur a new or recurrent ache or pain, you might dismiss it for a few hours….but then get concerned when you try to get back into whatever it is you have to do. The ache or pain increases, or simplyRead More
Exercise and Weight Control in Aging Women (And Men, Too…)
On Wednesday, March 24, an article about a research project hit the news big time. a continuing study, as a sub group of the women’s health study (by Dr. I Min Lee), found that women who were middle age (avg. 54), followed for 13 yrs on their diet, exercise, and weight, were able to maintainRead More
Hi Fructose Corn Syrup Makes You Fatter Than Sugar
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is the bugaboo of nutritionally minded, and nutritionally smart, people. It’s a consequence of technology trying to find a market. When it was first ‘discovered’ in the ’60s, most soft drinks, like sodas and fruit drinks, were flavored with sugar – about 50% fructose and 50% sucrose. But with AmericaRead More
Sugar, Hi Fructose Corn Syrup
The corn growers of america want you to not be afraid of hi fructose corn syrup, so they’re changing the name: corn sugar!!! that should allay any fears of consuming too many wasted calories now that its name has changed, right? Wrong. There are unwarranted fears about the correlational link of hi fructose corn syrupRead More
The Carb-Fat Dispute Continues
How to best lose weight? Low fat, low carb/hi protein, or low calories? This debate has been ongoing for at least 40 years, maybe longer, but I was too young to care back then. Now I do, and professionally, have been battered about by the various studies showing one or the other as best. TheRead More
More On Barefoot Running
The articles continue coming in about the merits or hazards of barefootness. The American Running & Fitness Association, of which I am a lifetime member and happy recipient of its newsletters, has an article in this month’s Running & Fit News: http://static.americanrunning.org/fitnews/ARAfitnews_V28_1/continued2.ht… It discusses some of the books out there along with some commentary byRead More