We have all read and heard and watched exercise and medical professionals espouse the benefits of exercise. We have all heard about how being fit reduces your risk of many diseases – heart, brain, musculoskeletal, etc – and that the sooner you get to it, the better off you’ll be. But what about getting toRead More
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The Heritability of Your Fitness Traits
You know your height, hair color, eye color, skin texture, intelligence, etc are things that get passed on from your ancestors through genes, but did you know that there are limits and capacities for your strength, endurance, ability to improve fitness, etc are also heritable? Well, this article in the Express Tribune with the NYTRead More
Bone Density vs Bone Quality vs Falling: What Works and How?
If only it were as simple as some people say: Just walk for better health. But that is such a minimalist approach that may not yield even minimal benefits. We tend to believe that walking is enough to protect the heart, reduce the waistline, maintain or even build better bones, and reduce our risk forRead More
Why Fitness – and Exercise – Training is STRONGLY Recommended
Of course, you’d expect a fitness specialist, a personal trainer, and an exercise scientist to promote the regularity and consistency of exercise and fitness practices for overall health and well-being. Of course, that’s what I do all day. But sometimes the research is just so damn compelling that not sharing it would be like withholdingRead More
Protein Needs Ramp Up as You Slow Down
Tufts Health & Nutrition Letter is a monthly that offers the best and most current nutrition science available. For those who are into alternative health news, especially alternative nutritional guidance, Tufts is the “establishment”. For the rest of us, though, where science is more important than conjecture based on some less-than-ideal reading of the literature,Read More
Sit Your Way to Death
There has been much written over the past five decades on the benefits of exercise to counter the effects of modern, industrial Western society. But only in the past decade or so has much attention been spent looking at the detriments of this modern life we live. That is, the science of sedentariness is onlyRead More
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
Older Adult or Senior Fitness: Exercise Is the Best Medicine for Fall Prevention and Quality of Life As We Age
Exercise for older adults is now being recommended not to help folks live longer but to live better, more fulfilling, more vibrant, and safer – that is, lesser risk of falls- than any medicines your doctor can offer. My friend, Megan Senger, a freelance writer on fitness and wellness, just got an article published inRead More