The answer to the title question, “What is ‘Old’ and How Can One Procrastinate Aging”, is a timeless one. It’s as old as cognition itself. For the next step after old is dead and mankind …
Free Holiday Season Advice, for what it’s worth
Here come those nasty holidays advice columns, again. Halloween ends, and the decorations for Thanksgiving come out in stores and homes. Everyone knows that that portends – Christmas decorations, gift shopping and those ubiquitous and …
Can Protein Supplementation Facilitate Joint Replacement Success?
In many blog posts and newsletters, I have tried to come to grips with the value and merits of increased protein ingestion. Studies have demonstrated that extra protein helps not just athletes and ‘bodybuilders’ but …
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Bones: The Last Frontier of Fitness Training
Most everyone knows that cardio exercise is valuable to health and longevity. It improves the heart muscle itself plus the blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood to other organs and muscles. It keeps resting blood …
Designing Your Own Workout…May Require a Pro
I wish DIY was applicable in all aspects of life. As a client told me the other day, when confronted by a minor repair of his toilet a few years back, he considered DIY. His …
Obese and Heart-Healthy: The Paradox Continues
A recent article about a research study raises once again the prospect that obesity, defined as >30 BMI or >25% body fat in men and >30% in women; or >40″ waist for men and >35″ …
Obesity Ain’t What You Think It Oughta Be
A fascinating, lay article in the Huffington Post, with the catchy title, “Everything You Know About Obesity is Wrong“, attempts to offer readers a simple, and emotionally moving, synopsis of obesity science. It is heartbreaking …
Exercise – Sedentary Behavior = 0
As I wrote here, here , here and here, the science of sedentary behavior is the current variation of exercise science that is confounding experts. Here, a NY Times fitness and wellness writer summarizes a recent …
Standing Desks: Why All the Rage?
In several other posts here, here, and here, I have discussed exercise and health science’s efforts to find the least amount of activity necessary to confer benefits. This goes back to my early years in grad …
Of Mice and Men: Exercise boosts neurogenerative systems
Aging happens over time, and with it comes many changes to the mind and body. I know it sounds tautological and mundanely simplistic, but science is still investigating what and why things deteriorate as we …
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