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REAL-News --February-2025Feb 01

February 1, 2025 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – February 2025

February 2025 The Gut-Brain Axis Concept and Frailty The concept of the gut microbiome has taken the healthcare and fitness world by storm. The biome is affected by lifestyle, including medications, diseases, diet, and exercise. It is thought to affect not just the body but the brain, and cognition in the elderly. Sarcopenia – theRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: CAI, chronic ankle instability, gut-brain axis, microbiome, muscle quality, obesity, strength imbalances, tai chi, testosterone

REAL-News -- July-2024Jul 01

July 1, 2024 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – July 2024

July 2024 What We Mean When We Say “Activate” Muscles A readily-bandied about if not overused phrase in the fitness arena is “activate your _____ muscles”. Intuitively, we understand its meaning but a recent study out of the UK will give it more currency. They studied what they call ‘force steadiness’ in subjects with andRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: achieve well-being, aging, body fat, cardiovascular, diabetes, low back pain, menstruation, obesity, resistance training

Fit-Happens --Winter-2024Feb 08

February 8, 2024 By Irv Rubenstein

Fit Happens – Winter 2024

Winter 2024 The Changing Winds of Weight Management Sometime over the past 30+ years, many in the medical and fitness world came to a difficult and exasperating conclusion: weight loss is not so simple as eat less, move more. This is a topic we have discussed previously here, here, and here but it’s not theRead More

Filed Under: Fit Happens Tagged With: childhood obesity, GLP-1, obesity, Ozempic, semaglutide, set point theory, weight management

REAL-News--February-2025Feb 01

February 1, 2024 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – February 2025

February 2025 The Gut-Brain Axis Concept and Frailty The concept of the gut microbiome has taken the healthcare and fitness world by storm. The biome is affected by lifestyle, including medications, diseases, diet, and exercise. It is thought to effect not just the body but the brain, and cognition in the elderly. Sarcopenia – theRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: CAI, chronic ankle instability, inflammation, knee injury, microbiome, obesity, prebiotics, testosterone supplementation

REAL-News--September-20242Jan 11

January 11, 2024 By Irv Rubenstein

Weight Management’s New Look

Sometime over the past 30+ years, many in the medical and fitness world came to a difficult and exasperating conclusion: weight loss is not so simple as eat less, move more. For the past 50 years or so the estimated calculus of 3,500 calories = a pound of fat – that is, eat fewer caloriesRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: obesity, Ozempic, semaglutide, Wegovy, weight management

Part 1: GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: The New, Improved, and Not-Fully-Understood Weight Loss DrugsOct 31

October 31, 2023 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – November 2023

November 2023 Exercise Dermatology for Aging Skin Aerobic exercise (AE) is a proven modality for cardiovascular, metabolic, orthopedic, and psychological health. Resistance, or strength, exercise (RE) is a proven modality for improving strength, power, function, and even many of the above-mentioned systems benefited by AE. But skin? Come on now! However, one study has shownRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: ACL, dermatology, neuromuscular deficiencies, obesity, skin, sports psychology, TV watching

Fit-Happens--Winter-2023Jan 15

January 15, 2023 By Irv Rubenstein

Fit Happens – Winter 2023

Winter 2023 “I feel fluffy”: Conflating a body composition analysis with an emotion Most of us old enough remember Julie Andrews’ version of “I feel pretty”, by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. But it was originally written for Maria to sing in the original 1957 theatrical version of West Side Story. Ever since then, however,Read More

Filed Under: Fit Happens Tagged With: dieting, diets, fat, healthy habits, motivation, obesity

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

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