For a few years, while she was establishing herself as a neuromuscular expert on feet, Dr. Emily Splichal, a NYC podiatrist, was a source of highly technical yet superbly functional webinars (this is but one …
Names, Titles, Honors: What Makes a Personal Trainer of the Year
Earlier this month, at the University of California-Irvine, the MedFit Professional magazine (MFP) honored 12 personal trainers who’d been nominated for Trainer of the Year each month in 2019. I, personally, was given such an …
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Pain: The Fitness Dilemma Discussed in Hush Tones
A provocative article in the New York Times back in December 2019 offers a layman’s perspective on pain that raises more questions than it answers. In brief, it posits the prevalent theory that the brain …
Soda Safety…Again
Not long ago, I wrote about the ongoing controversy with artificial sweeteners in the American diet and culture. An article from September 2019 in the Washington Post brings more to bear on this topic, not …
Is Overeating/Obesity an Addiction?
When the originally-named Eating Disorders Coalition of Tennessee (EDCT) was founded in the early 2000’s by Dr. Ovidio Bermudez of Vanderbilt University (at that time; now with the Eating Recovery Center of Denver, CO), Reba …
Disease, Apps and Ultimate Responsibility
I receive occasional offers from other bloggers to include or add onto my site as this sharing boosts one’s own visibility on the web. I vet them for content and redundancy – that is, if …
Bingeing at Night: A Hormonal Habit?
A recent article in the NY Times reviewed a scientific article in the December issue of the International Journal of Obesity that reinforced what many fitness and wellness professionals suspected: that nighttime binge eating may be more than …
The Real Fake News: Processed Food Is ‘Healthy’
The fitness field is replete with pseudo-science especially regarding diet, dieting and diets. While personal trainers may have some ‘expertise’ in nutrition based largely on what they learned in their certification prep courses or at …
Artificial Sweeteners: Diet or Die?
Let me state from the get-go that I am not a biochemistry guru or even a registered dietician, so any comments below regarding the safety of artificial sweeteners (AS) such as saccharin, aspartame, sucralose or …
An Alphabet Soup for Shoulder Health
I love reading about shoulders and working with them mainly because they’re so complex. It’s not that I really understand it all, but having attended many lectures and a few specific conferences on shoulders, I …