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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
What is a ‘diet’? For the most part, a diet is what and how you eat, where the ‘how’ is as critical as the ‘what’. It is not, technically, a pre-packaged plan laid out by either yourself, a dietitian, a trainer, a book author or a TV personality. A diet is more holistic and doesRead More
A scary title about women getting fatter faster than men in the WaPo raises a question that the article itself does not venture to answer: WHY? The article throws around a bunch of statistics and it’s well worth it for the wellness communities to study. Troubling shift in American obesity: Women surge ahead of men,Read More
Since the Paleo diet became such a fad, courtesy of CrossFit and other high-protein promoters, science has struggled to address the ratio issue in our diets: that is, whereas once high carbs were promoted for athletes, now suddenly high protein and high fat diets which limit carbs were showing success not just in athletic performanceRead More
