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REAL-News --July-2022Jul 01

July 1, 2022 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – July 2022

July 2022 How much do YOU know about Nutrition and Health? The following questions were asked of physicians in the January 2022 edition of Medscape, an online reference for healthcare providers. See how much YOU know: 1. Which most accurately expresses the results of a study on the risk for stroke and dementia in peopleRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: Alzheimer's disease, diet, Heart Health, neuroprotective, olive oil, omega 3, prehab, slows cognitive decline, total knee replacement

REAL-News --April-2021Apr 01

April 1, 2021 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – April 2021

April 2021 Why Exercise Doesn’t Burn Calories as Expected:  Compensation We all grew up hearing a mile walk or jog burns 100 calories; that you have to burn 3500 calories to lose a pound of fat; that you can’t exercise weight off…WHAT? Yes, it’s much easier to eat 100 calories than it is to runRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: burn off excess weight, caloric compensation, diet, dieting, Exercise, weight management

Part-1:-The-Diet-Obesity-Debates-ContinueJul 24

July 24, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

Part 1: The Diet-Obesity Debates Continue

There are two crises – other than political and covid-19  – that America, and maybe the modern, Westernized world in general, though also the rest of the world everywhere, must face that will destroy humankind: obesity and diet. And the fitness community, especially us professionals, has to accept our roles as potential solutions and causes.Read More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: burn off excess weight, childhood obesity, diet, field of health or exercise science, obesity, personal trainers, professsional fitness trainers, weight bias, weight loss

REAL-News--April-20232Apr 10

April 10, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

Coronavirus Tips: How to Live Through Covid

If I were an expert on anything, it would be somewhere in the category of fitness but not in medicine. What is fitness, anyway? This question has been asked by health, exercise, wellness, medical and fitness experts for over 50 years, pretty much since Dr Ken Cooper researched and wrote on, and developed the veryRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, coronavirus, covid, diet, Exercise, fitness, physical activity

Fit-Happens--Winter-20233Mar 19

March 19, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

Fit Happens – Spring 2020

Spring 2020 The Year of the Coronavirus It is hard to understate the impact of a pandemic on the personal, professional, economic and political lives of a society, especially one that includes everyone across the globe. The sudden spread and fearful consequences of a what’s called ‘novel’ coronavirus – Covid-19 – has sequestered students atRead More

Filed Under: Fit Happens Tagged With: coronavirus, Covid-19, diet, Exercise, field of health or exercise science, physical activity

Part-1:-The-Diet-Obesity-Debates-Continue1Jan 16

January 16, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

Soda Safety…Again

Not long ago, I wrote about the ongoing controversy with artificial sweeteners in the American diet and culture. An article from September 2019 in the Washington Post brings more to bear on this topic, not for the findings but for the conversation around them. First, the article addresses the results of a European study inRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: artificial sweeteners, coronary heart disease, diet, heart disease, soda, sugar, weight management

Soda-Safety...-Again1Nov 16

November 16, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

Disease, Apps and Ultimate Responsibility

I receive occasional offers from other bloggers to include or add onto my site as this sharing boosts one’s own visibility on the web. I vet them for content and redundancy – that is, if I’ve already addressed a topic – as well as readability. The latter pertains to it complexity or lack thereof. Some,Read More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: diabetes, diabetes apps, diet, Exercise, health apps, weight management

REAL-News --November-2019Nov 01

November 1, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – November 2019

 November 2019 Running Economy and How You Run MaxVO2 is your body’s maximal oxygen uptake and use capacity. But this only tells how fit you are while your running economy (RE) tells how much energy you use relative to the distance you run. And it’s a better predictor of your racing skills. A study fromRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: diet, field of health or exercise science, obesity, running economy, running mechanics, slows cognitive decline

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