This is a great article with sound advice on how to help your kids – and maybe you – cut the sugar habit. Some good facts, good pointers but one really solid, absolutely essential bit …
On the Genetics of Fitness and Health
So, a friend/colleague of mine, Linda Melone (LindaMelone.com) is a professional exercise and fitness writer. She often asks my inputs and sometimes my opinions on matters pertaining to fitness and exercise for articles she is …
On Thinness, Weight Management, and Stupid Subtitles
A recent study, linked below, addresses the different attitudes and lifestyle choices of those who are thin vs those who are dieting to be thinner, we presume. The study’s press release has a few unaddressed …
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Reward vs Punishment: How to Get Your People Moving
Here’s a real-world application of behavioral psychology that could change the world, sort of. It may help you, your kids, or your staff/employees achieve a healthy lifestyle habit that will keep them leaner and healthier. …
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Processed Meats May Be Deadly
Pretty damning headline, eh? Seems the evidence, as composited by a diet and nutrition task force in the US and now this study, is demonstrating that Subway-style processed meats, even if not served in high …
Big-Time Study Shows Strength Training for Seniors Makes Them Younger
Reported this month in Harvard’s Heart Letter (newsletter), Harvard’s Men’s Health Watch (newsletter) and UCLA’s Healthy Years (for aging-related health newsletter) are the results of a study published in the American Journal of Medicine declaring …
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Keeping Kids Healthy Means Keeping Them Moving, Too
Heart disease is still the number one killer of modern, industrialized nations’ people. And many studies have shown the foundation for heart health is established early in childhood, both by the habits and patterns we …
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How to Preserve Muscle Mass While Losing Fat Mass
What a boring topic, right? I mean, how many news pieces do you have to see on TV or read in mass media to find out what has been touted for at least 20 years …
If What You Eat Is Who You Are, Then How You Feel Is Where You Might End Up
We all know, especially those of us getting older, that you’re really only as old as you feel. But the other side of that coin is, the older you feel the sicker you are…or will …
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Eggs – or at Least One Egg – Won’t Kill You
It came out last year or so that eating cholesterol-rich foods ain’t as bad as they once thought. Now this says an egg a day won’t kill you…but the bacon, well, they just don’t know …