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REAL-News --June-2020Jun 01

June 1, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – June 2020

   June 2020 Is There An Exercise Routine Older Adults Can and Will Do? As we age, we lose muscle and bone mass. We don’t manage glucose levels as well. These predispose the elderly to reduced function and higher risk of falls and fractures which could seriously impair both quality and quantity of life. EncouragingRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: achieve well-being, calories, Exercise, exercise intensity, physical activity, sedentariness, sitting

Sep 10, 2018

September 10, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

Exercise – Sedentary Behavior = 0

As I wrote here, here , here and here, the science of sedentary behavior is the current variation of exercise science that is confounding experts. Here, a NY Times fitness and wellness writer summarizes a recent study that demonstrates what I reported in this blog post way back when: that is, when people do go toRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, calories, Exercise, field of health or exercise science, musculoskeletal improvements, science of sedentariness, sedentary

On Intermittent Fasting: Better than other low-cal diets?Nov 12

November 12, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

On Intermittent Fasting: Better than other low-cal diets?

There are many ways to diet for weight loss but every single one of them require reducing caloric intake. Every diet, every diet book, and every diet guru merely promotes a way of making calorie reduction palatable. This is done by making recipes that supplant the many trigger foods or components, like sugar, fats, whiteRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: body fat, burn off excess weight, calories, diet, dieting, fasting, intermittent fasting, weight loss

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

A Dummy's Guide to the Differences Between Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes1Oct 19

October 19, 2013 By Irv Rubenstein

Diabetes and Exercise, Part 3

This is the last part of a 3 Part essay on diabetes and exercise that I wrote for Medical Fitness Network (http://medicalfitnessnetwork.org/). It addresses the risks and some of the considerations those with diabetes must control for and manage: In managing diabetes, either type 1 or 2, there are some guidelines one should follow, forRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: calories, diabetes, Exercise, hypoglycemia, insulin

Feb 04, 2011

February 4, 2011 By Irv Rubenstein

Obesity, Kids, and School Lunches

Should the State dictate what you eat? nope. but if it’s paying for it, it has the right to lay out a menu that it believes is better for you than menus we know are unhealthy and promote obesity. hence, when I read this in the Times: Childhood: Obesity and School Lunches – I feltRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: calories, diet, Exercise, fitness, obesity

Apr 17, 2010

April 17, 2010 By Irv Rubenstein

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

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: calories, Exercise, obese, weight loss

Mar 24, 2010

March 24, 2010 By Irv Rubenstein

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

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: blood sugar, calories, fat, high fructose

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