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REAL-News --September-2024May 01

May 1, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – May 2020

   May 2020 Low Back Rehab: How Hard Should It Go? Intensity of exercise is a potent factor in the rate and extent of progress one makes in general fitness and in some injury recoveries. But this has not been thoroughly tested in chronic non-specific low back pain (CNSLBP.) THis is a topic we’ve coveredRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: exertion, HIIT, low back pain, obesity, overweight, pain, soft drinks, walking efficiency

REAL-News --March-2020Dec 16

December 16, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

Is Overeating/Obesity an Addiction?

When the originally-named Eating Disorders Coalition of Tennessee (EDCT) was founded in the early 2000’s by Dr. Ovidio Bermudez of Vanderbilt University (at that time; now with the Eating Recovery Center of Denver, CO), Reba Sloan, R.D., now-deceased Karen Silien, psychologist, and Nan Allison, R.D., among others, its stated mission was to create awareness andRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: addiction, addictive behavior, eating disorders, obesity, overeating, overweight

REAL-News --November-2019Nov 01

November 1, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – November 2019

 November 2019 Running Economy and How You Run MaxVO2 is your body’s maximal oxygen uptake and use capacity. But this only tells how fit you are while your running economy (RE) tells how much energy you use relative to the distance you run. And it’s a better predictor of your racing skills. A study fromRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: diet, field of health or exercise science, obesity, running economy, running mechanics, slows cognitive decline

Fit-Happens --Winter-2024Oct 17

October 17, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

Bingeing at Night: A Hormonal Habit?

A recent article in the NY Times reviewed a scientific article in the December issue of the  International Journal of Obesity that reinforced what many fitness and wellness professionals suspected: that nighttime binge eating may be more than habitual; it may be hormonal. The article suggested that obese people who binge eat – not all do, one mightRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: body fat, dieting, eating disorders, lose weight, obesity, weight loss

The-Real-Fake-News:-Processed-Food-Is-'Healthy'Oct 15

October 15, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

The Real Fake News: Processed Food Is ‘Healthy’

The fitness field is replete with pseudo-science especially regarding diet, dieting and diets. While personal trainers may have some ‘expertise’ in nutrition based largely on what they learned in their certification prep courses or at professional conferences, they also have some serious biases often based on what’s worked for them. These could be appropriate forRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: diet, field of health or exercise science, healthy diet, obesity, processed foods, unprocessed foods, weight loss

Part-1:-The-Diet-Obesity-Debates-Continue1Aug 22

August 22, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

Artificial Sweeteners: Diet or Die?

Let me state from the get-go that I am not a biochemistry guru or even a registered dietician, so any comments below regarding the safety of artificial sweeteners (AS) such as saccharin, aspartame, sucralose or their ilk comes from an angle few in my profession are willing to take. Based on a hearty defense ofRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: artificial sweeteners, dieting, field of health or exercise science, high-fructose corn syrup, obesity, sugar

REAL-News --March-2020Feb 24

February 24, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

The Sounds of Obesity

I remember the fad of the record album of my college days that gave potheads- of which I was NOT one (really, ask anyone on my freshman floor) – a mellow thrill: recordings of the humpback whales. Stoned, they’d express youthful ‘wows’ as if the combination of science and THC took them to another level.Read More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: body fat, childhood obesity, diabetes, diet, higher risk of obesity, obesity

REAL News - November 2018Nov 01

November 1, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – November 2018

  November 2018 When Hip Structure Compromises Hip Motion A more recent diagnostic of hip deformity, along with a more recent surgical procedure to manage it (thanks to the work of a Nashville orthopedist), has helped explain a lot of athletes’, and even non-athletes’, groin pain. Called femoroacetabular impingement (FAI), it is essentially a recognitionRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: Exercise, flexibility, functional fitness, musculoskeletal improvements, obesity, Stretching

Obesity Ain't What You Think It Oughta BeSep 22

September 22, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

Obesity Ain’t What You Think It Oughta Be

A fascinating, lay article in the Huffington Post, with the catchy title, “Everything You Know About Obesity is Wrong“, attempts to offer readers a simple, and emotionally moving, synopsis of obesity science. It is heartbreaking at times as interviewees often express lifelong feelings of pain and shame, and society and the medical community don’t help.Read More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, childhood obesity, Exercise, field of health or exercise science, hormones, obesity, Weight loss vs Exercise gain, weight management

Life-Changes:-Diet-for- LivingMar 23

March 23, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

Deflection Points: When Behavioral Eating Can Be Fatal!!!

How’s that for a headline? Grabs your attention, don’t it? But that’s how mass media, especially on line media, operates: it tries to grab eyeballs. Even researchers do so by titling their articles accordingly – either catchy, kitschy or catastrophically. But if you read them carefully, you will often see the big clue that it’sRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: childhood obesity, deflection point, diet, eating disorders, higher risk of obesity, obesity

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