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

August 24, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

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 …

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

Obesity in an Obesigenic World

Once Again Exercise Proves Its Bona Fides

July 5, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

Gotta love some of the modern terminology in our field and in medicine’s: obesigenic. I suppose it means ‘that which causes obesity’. Anyway, a very interesting genomics approach to the problem of obesity in America …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: body fat, burn off excess weight, Exercise, higher risk of obesity, Weight loss vs Exercise gain

Confusing Food Messages, Confusing Food Eaters

June 29, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

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 …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: achieve well-being, body fat, mindful eating, physically active, weight loss

Why are Women Getting Fatter Faster than Men?

June 22, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

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 …

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

A Unique Take on Obesity Management

REAL-News --November-20201

April 10, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

I just returned from a quick but fab weekend in Tabernash, CO visiting my freshman (1970) year RA at Vanderbilt University, Whitney, and his wife, Kathleen, with my lady friend, Kathy. And while no confusion …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: body fat, burn off excess weight, diet, Exercise, lowering calories

Real News: January 2016 Creatine Supplements: For Bones, Not Just Muscles

Real News: January 2016 Creatine Supplements: For Bones, Not Just Muscles

March 25, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

April 2016 Can Creatine Supplementation Boost Bone, Too? What if you could get bigger, stronger, more powerful muscles by adding a supplement to your diet that would also increase bone density? Wouldn’t it be worth …

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Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: body fat, childhood obesity, creatine, Heart Health, strength training

Low Carb Will Take You Only So Far

March 20, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

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 …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: body fat, diet, Heart Health, weight loss, Weight loss vs Exercise gain

How to Preserve Muscle Mass While Losing Fat Mass

February 17, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

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 …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: body fat, lean body mass, metabolism, resistance training, senior fitness

Eat Nuts, Reduce Cholesterol, and Prevent Diabetes

February 9, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

How is it possible for one food item – in particular, nut oils – to virtually do what so many drugs portend to do? How can nuts do so much for so little without so …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: body fat, dieting, HDL, Heart Health, LDL, lose weight

The Diet Amnesty: Why You Shouldn’t Blame (Just) Yourself – Part 1

The Sounds of Obesity2

June 15, 2015 By Irv Rubenstein

An article in the Washington Post, “Why Diets Don’t Actually Work, According to a Researcher Who Has Studied Them for Decades” (May 4, 2015), has  excited the air- and ether-waves, especially among those organizations – …

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