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Exercise

Jan 01, 2016

January 1, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

New Year’s Fitness Resolutions

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

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, dieting, Enjoying the holidays, Exercise, joys of the season

Oct 31, 2015

October 31, 2015 By Irv Rubenstein

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

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

Obesity Ain't What You Think It Oughta BeJun 22

June 22, 2015 By Irv Rubenstein

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

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: burn off excess weight, diet, Exercise, ghrelin, leptin

The Unadulterated Value of Exercise vs the Over-hyped Value of Diets and SupplementsApr 15

April 15, 2015 By Irv Rubenstein

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

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: Exercise, mortality, obesity, reduce your risk of falling, weight loss programs

Exercise of the Week: Crunch with a TwistFeb 03

February 3, 2015 By Irv Rubenstein

Exercise of the Month: Crunch with a Twist

Filed Under: Exercise of the Month Tagged With: core strength, crunch, Exercise, fitness

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January 3, 2015 By Irv Rubenstein

Exercise of the Month: Stand and Press

Filed Under: Exercise of the Month Tagged With: Exercise, fitness, overhead press, step ups

REAL-News --June-20211Feb 25

February 25, 2014 By Irv Rubenstein

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

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: calorie intake, Exercise, nutrient timing, protein, weight management

Weight-Management's-New -Look2Oct 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

Oct 19, 2013

October 19, 2013 By Irv Rubenstein

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

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: blood sugar, diabetes, Exercise, lifestyle choices, pancreas

Oct 03, 2013

October 3, 2013 By Irv Rubenstein

Fall 2013: Thinking or Doing?

Thinking about exercise? The changing face of waist management. News and non-random acts of kindness. fithappens.fall_.13

Filed Under: Fit Happens, Newsletters Tagged With: Exercise, Random Acts of Kindness

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