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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
Maybe you’ve read about some famous athlete who touts the benefits of this newfangled medical technique – PRP. before this, you may have heard of athletes touting the benefits of prolotherapy. Maybe you’ve even tried one or both of these out for you chronic, nagging, overuse tendinopathy or what not. If so, let me knowRead More
Dear Friends and Family, I may not have told you in this venue, but I will be teaching a one-evening class called Newton’s Laws of Weight Loss through the University School of Nashville Evening Class program. I’ll be taking a look at new science and old in the quest for weight loss to give youRead More
Here’s an article that stimulates absolutely no thought in my mind: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/does-exercising-make-you-drink-… The essence is that exercise seems to stimulate rather than blunt alcohol consumption. Humans present one layer of evidence; mice, which we assume do not have social circumstances centered on alcohol consumption, also seem to thrill on alcohol intake if they are exercisers.Read More
It’s on everyone’s mind, whether you’re lean and fit or obese and diseased: why can’t I/they/he/she lose weight? Well, if you’re a doctor administering to a patient whose health can be dramatically altered by losing weight, you have several options: talk nice, give orders, don’t say anything, or present the data. This article in theRead More
Yesterday I met with a 61 y/o attorney with whom I’d met two years ago to help with his knee problems. He stays active and is fit tho a bit paunchier than he’d like to be…because he also enjoys drinking a few in the evening. So, while his wt hasn’t really changed, and he doesRead More
Every trainer has his or her opinion on this matter, and every athlete still wonders: which exercises should I do first, and in what order do you plan your routine? Typically, the novice goes with the flow – whatever is available in the gym, or whatever muscle group he wants to build, regardless of whatRead More
Now why didn’t I think of this name? Damn it – I’ve been promoting it since 1992 when I first got hold of a newfangled exercise toy, the elastic band with handles. I call it the torso rotation when you hold one end in your clasped hands directly in front of the sternum and rotateRead More
The articles continue coming in about the merits or hazards of barefootness. The American Running & Fitness Association, of which I am a lifetime member and happy recipient of its newsletters, has an article in this month’s Running & Fit News: http://static.americanrunning.org/fitnews/ARAfitnews_V28_1/continued2.ht… It discusses some of the books out there along with some commentary byRead More
