It happens every year around this time, as people wallow and wail about their having fallen off the wagon of fitness, diet, and even health: The infamous if not ridiculously self-abnegating New Year’s Resolution to do better this next year. It does not have to be this way, of course, and we all know it.Read More
Exercise
Part 3: The Science of Weight Loss Just Got Messier
Can a food manufacturer or grower be faithful to science if it funds the researcher? And vice versa. In Part 3 of a three-part series, I address this latest bit of unsettling news reported in theNew York Times. In my first two posts – Part 1: The Weight Loss Agenda Just Got Messier and Part 2:Read More
Why diets don’t actually work…but how to make them work better – Part 2
A couple weeks ago, I posted Part 1 of this discussion on weight management – Why Diets Don’t Actually Work. Here’s the rest of the story – how to manage weight with two, or a couple more, simple rules…. In the second part of the interview, a few days later, Dr Mann reveals two ‘secrets’Read More
The Unadulterated Value of Exercise vs the Over-hyped Value of Diets and Supplements
Trying to keep up with what’s going on in the fitness/wellness sciences is difficult. Every time some new ‘thing’ hits the media, it stirs up interest from many of my clients in the meaning and value this new thing presents. They trust me to sift through the BS and provide a PhD view of it.Read More
Exercise of the Month: Crunch with a Twist
Exercise of the Month: Stand and Press
Nutrient Timing and Weight Management
Part 2 – using the concept of nutrient timing to lose weight (see part 1 Nutrient Timing, Nutrient Intake, and Wellness) If eating a specific nutritional dose before and after a workout constiutes the principle of nutrient timing (NT), and this concept facilitates and optimizes the workouts themselves, then can’t NT be used to helpRead More
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
Exercise and Diabetes
The following three essays are the long version of what I have written for Medical Fitness Network (of which I am an advisory board member), an organization that is designed to educate professional and lay individuals on a variety of medical conditions/diseases, as well as to serve as a clearinghouse, of sorts, through which thoseRead More
Fall 2013: Thinking or Doing?
Thinking about exercise? The changing face of waist management. News and non-random acts of kindness. fithappens.fall_.13