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Myth Busting #928 - Sweating Out Toxins Is Harder Than You Think1Apr 12

April 12, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

Myth Busting #928 – Sweating Out Toxins Is Harder Than You Think

Many a fitness professional, including those who write, contribute or publish fitness and wellness articles, adhere to some voodoo beliefs that, occasionally, need debunking. For example, I just read an article in Lower Extremity Review about symmetry. That is, in medicine, therapy and fitness, there is a belief that things should be symmetrical between ourRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: detox, field of health or exercise science, fitness myths, myth busting, nutrition, sweating

Fit Happens - Winter 2017Dec 11

December 11, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

Fit Happens – Winter 2017

28 Steps to 28 Years of STEPS This December 11, 2017, marks the 28th year in business for STEPS Fitness. It was originally founded by a college colleague, Kathy Alexander, and I in 1986 as a concept. We opened our first gym in 1989, so that’s what I’d call our start date. Despite the corporateRead More

Filed Under: Fit Happens Tagged With: diet, Enjoying the holidays, nutrition, physical activity

Aug 05, 2011

August 5, 2011 By Irv Rubenstein

HAES it Going?

It’s intentional: HAES = Health at Every Size, a program to help overweight women come to grips with the lifestyle patterns that have contributed to their heaviness, but NOT by enforcing weight loss. Rather, it encourages finding – no, creating -new patterns of thinking, feeling, responding, and acting to stimuli – both external as wellRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: fitness, health, nutrition, well being

May 28, 2010

May 28, 2010 By Irv Rubenstein

Clarification and Addition

In an earlier post this evening, I referred to a study mentioned in the Tufts Nutrition Letter re calcium supplements not being beneficial to prevent heart disease. However, a Swedish study did show that calcium intake did correlate with reduced risk of heart disease in men. It was a very large epidemiological study which givesRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: heart disease, nutrition, suppliments, vitamins

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