June 2020 Is There An Exercise Routine Older Adults Can and Will Do? As we age, we lose muscle and bone mass. We don’t manage glucose levels as well. These predispose the elderly to …
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 …
On Intermittent Fasting: Better than other low-cal diets?
There are many ways to diet for weight loss but every single one of them require reducing caloric intake. Every diet, every diet book, and every diet guru merely promotes a way of making calorie …
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When Food Diversity Isn’t the Answer
There are nearly as many diets for weight loss in the media and at the country club, let alone at the gym, as there are people needing to lose weight. Likewise, there are nearly as …
Diabetes and Exercise, Part 3
This is the last part of a 3 Part essay on diabetes and exercise that I wrote for Medical Fitness Network (http://medicalfitnessnetwork.org/). It addresses the risks and some of the considerations those with diabetes must …
Obesity, Kids, and School Lunches
Should the State dictate what you eat? nope. but if it’s paying for it, it has the right to lay out a menu that it believes is better for you than menus we know are …
Weight Loss in Older Adults
Traditionally, physicians have been reluctant to encourage older adults – those over 75, for example – to lose weight since studies have shown that older adults who lose weight tend to have unnoticed medical problems. …
Hi Fructose Corn Syrup Makes You Fatter Than Sugar
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is the bugaboo of nutritionally minded, and nutritionally smart, people. It’s a consequence of technology trying to find a market. When it was first ‘discovered’ in the ’60s, most soft …