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REAL News June 20173Jun 07

June 7, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News June 2017

          June 2017 Kids Just Wanna Have Fun… The future looks bleak from a long-term public health perspective when you consider that almost 70% of adults are overweight or obese (OO.) Considering that up to 16% of kids are obese, the long-term outlook is dim, not just physically. Many studies haveRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: academic performance, children's fitness, polyunsaturated fats, saturated fats, sedentary lifestyle, yogurt

Feb 06, 2015

February 6, 2015 By Irv Rubenstein

Diabetes, Puberty and Inflammation: Why Diet and Exercise is Medicine

Two articles bring to the forefront, again, what research is homing in on: that inflammation wreaks havoc beyond swelling, redness, and pain. The first, on how inflammation contributes to diabetes – and, by the way, how diabetes feeds into inflammation – comes from Health News Canal: Here we learn of an apparent linkage of bodyRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: hormones, inflammation, sedentary lifestyle, Type 2 Diabetes

Dec 05, 2014

December 5, 2014 By Irv Rubenstein

Calories, Disease, Exercise…and Longevity

This blog has every intention to summarize the health care crisis faced by modern and third world people resulting from the ready availability of cheap calories and sedentary living. One simple article in HealthNewsCanal (http://www.healthcanal.com/metabolic-problems/obesity/58073-obesity-may-…) used mathematical modeling to determine the effect of being overweight or obese on longevity and, uniquely, “healthy-life years”. By wayRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: diabetes, heart disease, overweight, sedentary lifestyle

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