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By Irv Rubenstein
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
By Irv Rubenstein
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
By Irv Rubenstein
Ok, so people know they should be losing weight; they have read and heard it ad infinitum. They feel terribly guilty about their excess weight, their diet and exercise habits, and their burden on the health care system. and they refuse to engage in the long hard arduous struggle to counter the effects of modernRead More
By Irv Rubenstein
the unwavering love of natural in our dietary nazis is unquestionably reserved for those overly suspicious of technology, industry, mass marketing, and government. i know some are truly concerned for health matters but argue vigorously against those who contend some conspiracy to create physiological and metabolic genocide in search of the dollar. and, while thisRead More
By Irv Rubenstein
there are many reasons to not read this blog: don’t want to learn anything, don’t want to read my rantings, don’t want to be healthier. the main reason, tho, is you don’t want to sit long enough to do so. therefore, read this article on the physiology of sitting. as a point of discussion, letRead More
By Irv Rubenstein
the challenge is enormous – how to get kids eating properly if their parents don’t or won’t. in other words, in a society where there are many lifestyle options, there is no legitimate way to get folks to act in accordance with any one set of standards, let alone dietary. so even the word ‘properly’Read More
By Irv Rubenstein
seems a lot is being published in the area of feet and running. i’ve commented before on this in regards to barefoot vs shod running. we have that choice, unlike our fellow land animals, and we’ve chosen, for the most part, shod. so scientists keep checking things out to see how economical it is, bothRead More
By Irv Rubenstein
a recent study in Pediatrics reported: The study, which included 8,550 4-year-olds from around the United States, found that children who ate dinner with their families more than five times a week, slept for at least 10.5 hours a night, and watched less than two hours of TV a day were 40 percent less likelyRead More
By Irv Rubenstein
we all know genetics factors in on such things as hair color, facial appearance, body types, etc. some of these we can only change by seeing professionals with expertise in drastic, or in the case of hair non-drastic, measures. but we think if only we exercise, we can get better – better endurance, strength, flexibility,Read More
By Irv Rubenstein
we fitness professionals have much to fear from big Pharm: someday a drug will be developed that will remove one of the major impetus, or is it impeti, for people who seek out our services. well, maybe that drug is here: Weight-loss supplement burns as many calories as 20-minute walk while i would not beRead More