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When Food Diversity Isn't the AnswerMay 14

May 14, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

When Food Diversity Isn’t the Answer

There are nearly as many diets for weight loss in the media and at the country club, let alone at the gym, as there are people needing to lose weight. Likewise, there are nearly as many diets everywhere you see people who otherwise look or are lean. But science keeps trying to find that oneRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, burn off excess weight, calories, diet, lose weight, obesity, Weight loss vs Exercise gain

REAL News February 2016Sep 14

September 14, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

Could Fidgeting Lead to Healthier Blood Vessels?

I hope so, because my dad used to ask me at dinner if I was nervous – my leg was always bouncing up and down. But then, as I aged my legs, vein-y and muscular from training and conditioning, started looking like my grandpa’s – vein-y and muscular. And hairless. And they needed some veinRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: burn off excess weight, Exercise, fitness, Heart Health, physically active

Sep 01, 2016

September 1, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

Eat More, Lose More: The Paradox of the Mediterranean Diet

One should never throw all his apples into one basket. In science, some will rot, others will dry up, and a few might taste really good…for now. So when I read a study touting the benefits of the Mediterranean diet not just for health but for weight and fat loss, my eyes perk up. ButRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: body fat, burn off excess weight, diet, lose weight, musculoskeletal improvements, Weight loss vs Exercise gain

ACSM Annual Meeting Brings Nerves to the ForefrontAug 05

August 5, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

Tufts Re-Evaluates a Study of Biggest Losers

Tufts University’s Health&Nutrition Letter did a front page review of a NYT article based on a study of some contestants in “The Biggest Loser” TV-reality show from a few years back. The gist of the study was that rapid, extreme weight loss slowed the basal metabolic rates (BMR) of those who initially lost a lotRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: basal metabolic rate, burn off excess weight, caloric deficit, obesity, weight loss

Once Again Exercise Proves Its Bona FidesJul 05

July 5, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

Obesity in an Obesigenic World

Gotta love some of the modern terminology in our field and in medicine’s: obesigenic. I suppose it means ‘that which causes obesity’. Anyway, a very interesting genomics approach to the problem of obesity in America has shown that certain genes associated – not CAUSED – with getting obese are more likely triggered by the environmentRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: body fat, burn off excess weight, Exercise, higher risk of obesity, Weight loss vs Exercise gain

Jun 22, 2016

June 22, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

Why are Women Getting Fatter Faster than Men?

A scary title about women getting fatter faster than men in the WaPo raises a question that the article itself does not venture to answer: WHY? The article throws around a bunch of statistics and it’s well worth it for the wellness communities to study. Troubling shift in American obesity: Women surge ahead of men,Read More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: body fat, burn off excess weight, higher risk of obesity, protein, weight loss

Stability Balls at WorkJun 20

June 20, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

And the winner is—-EXERCISE!

Not to toot the horn of my profession but studies upon studies demonstrate the benefits of exercise along a wide spectrum of human existence. From arthritis to diabetes to heart disease to cancer, and back again, exercise may be the single, best, cheapest, most convenient, least side-effected ‘drug’ medicine has recently discovered. For those ofRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: burn off excess weight, Heart Health, mental health, musculoskeletal improvements, slows cognitive decline

REAL-News --November-20201Apr 10

April 10, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

A Unique Take on Obesity Management

I just returned from a quick but fab weekend in Tabernash, CO visiting my freshman (1970) year RA at Vanderbilt University, Whitney, and his wife, Kathleen, with my lady friend, Kathy. And while no confusion ensued over common names, our conversations, meals, walks, work outs, and general just getting to know yous made for aRead More

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Mar 07, 2016

March 7, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

Sleeplessness Causes Munchies

Anyone who’s ever pulled an all-nighter knows you tend not to eat, or drink, healthy stuff as the night wears on. But even if you don’t intend to stay up all night, if you have insomnia at times or the baby cries out frequently, it’s worth noting that some of the same metabolic events occurRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: burn off excess weight, higher risk of obesity, lose weight, sleeplessness, weight loss

Feb 15, 2016

February 15, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

Overweight Kids MAY??? Benefit from an Exercise Program

Scientists hate to make hard conclusions when it comes to affirming anything. Thus, they are apt to call for future studies to confirm or dispute their findings. When a fitness program for little kids who are obese claims improvements in areas of fitness if not in body composition, don’t take it with a grain ofRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: burn off excess weight, childhood obesity, fitness, higher risk of obesity, physically active

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