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On Intermittent Fasting: Better than other low-cal diets?Nov 12

November 12, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

On Intermittent Fasting: Better than other low-cal diets?

There are many ways to diet for weight loss but every single one of them require reducing caloric intake. Every diet, every diet book, and every diet guru merely promotes a way of making calorie reduction palatable. This is done by making recipes that supplant the many trigger foods or components, like sugar, fats, whiteRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: body fat, burn off excess weight, calories, diet, dieting, fasting, intermittent fasting, weight loss

REAL-News - October-2021Sep 25

September 25, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

Part 1: Sane Weight Loss: The 2/3 Diet

Normally I don’t get so worked up about weight loss but this article in the WaPo, “Intermittent fasting vs daily calorie-cutting diets: Both  help you lose weight”, on top of last night’s gathering at Table 3 on behalf of the Renfrew Center’s 10th year in Nashville has me thinking diet. Generally, as a trainer ofRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: body fat, childhood obesity, dieting, weight loss, weight management

Part-1:-The-Diet-Obesity-Debates-ContinueJan 21

January 21, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

Bariatric Surgery Helps Teens Fight Obesity

A recent study just came out touting the benefits of bariatric surgery for obese teens. This article found that kids who had the surgery to bypass the stomach, reducing the amount of food and its absorbability that can enter the system, and causing immediate and long term metabolic changes that positively impact health, not simplyRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: bariatric surgery, kids, obesity, overweight, teens, weight loss

Fit-Happens --Spring-20204Sep 25

September 25, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

Picking Insurance is Secondary Compared to Taking Care of Your Self

    The ACA, or Obamacare, is a federal attempt to provide easy shopping for health insurance plans on what are called exchanges. While the effort to make it easier to shop and compare plans is valiant, it’s still not that easy to make a decision what with all the variables one has to considerRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: Exercise, health insurance, Obamacare, reduce stress, weight loss

Sep 08

September 8, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

If Exercise Helps the Brain, Not Exercising Hurts It, Maybe

Many studies over the past few years have expounded on the value of exercise in terms of mental, cognitive and emotional health. From fending off depression, improving executive function, reducing your risk of dementia and maybe Alzheimer’s, maintaining cardio fitness – and even strength – has been shown effective, not just during the post-workout periodRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: Alzheimer's disease, cognitive function, depression, physically active, weight loss

REAL-News --February-20211Aug 30

August 30, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

What’s a Few Extra Pounds, Anyway – Right?

There is no perfect weight. Let’s get that off the table right now. But each of us has a weight that is more better (intended bad grammar), even more perfect than other weights we’ve been. Some make us look less fit, less attractive, less able to wear a particular style of clothing, or less  healthy.Read More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: BMI, body fat, dieting, obesity, weight loss

Aug 24, 2016

August 24, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

Holy Protein, Batman! Now They’re Saying Lo-Pro is the Way to Go

After years of current research showing that the high-simple carb diets we were encouraged to eat back in the 70s and 80s lead to more obesity, and that we needed to add more (healthy) fats to our diets, and that higher protein might help more people lose weight by controlling both hunger and blood sugar,Read More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: body fat, higher risk of obesity, lose weight, protein, weight loss

Aug 10, 2016

August 10, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

Does Chronic Dieting Cause Hunger Signaling to Fail

Many of you know that dieting is a fool’s errand for many of us. We can go for a period of time, usually short enough that it can fit between major holidays or events, and monitor and regulate our diets and even our activities if the goal is deemed worthy….despite the healthiness of that goalRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: dieting, fitness, physically active, weight loss, Weight loss vs Exercise gain

Eating Disorders May Arise from Parental Comments about WeightAug 08

August 8, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

Eating Disorders May Arise from Parental Comments about Weight

A NYT article came out recently summarizing a study of 500 women and their experiences as young girls when it came to weight and parental comments about it (the link to the article is embedded):  Parents Should Avoid Comments on a Child’s Weight     Then, in a running and fitness newsletter, one of theRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: childhood obesity, eating disorders, obese, parental comments about weight, weight loss

ACSM Annual Meeting Brings Nerves to the ForefrontAug 05

August 5, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

Tufts Re-Evaluates a Study of Biggest Losers

Tufts University’s Health&Nutrition Letter did a front page review of a NYT article based on a study of some contestants in “The Biggest Loser” TV-reality show from a few years back. The gist of the study was that rapid, extreme weight loss slowed the basal metabolic rates (BMR) of those who initially lost a lotRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: basal metabolic rate, burn off excess weight, caloric deficit, obesity, weight loss

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