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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

Brains, Aging, and Obesity

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August 5, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

The brain shrinks as you age, and all you can hope for is good genes and healthy habits to slow it down. But what if good genes are there but healthy habits aren’t…and you gain …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: aging, brain, Exercise, higher risk of obesity, slows cognitive decline

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

Diet – Inclusive vs Exclusive…or Both

June 26, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

As per my blog post of June 22, this article says it nicely: it’s not just what you eat but what you don’t eat, too. Now, that may or may not sync perfectly with said …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: childhood obesity, diet, higher risk of obesity, lose weight, obesity

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

Sleeplessness Causes Munchies

March 7, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

Anyone who’s ever pulled an all-nighter knows you tend not to eat, or drink, healthy stuff as the night wears on. But even if you don’t intend to stay up all night, if you have …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: burn off excess weight, higher risk of obesity, lose weight, sleeplessness, weight loss

Overweight Kids MAY??? Benefit from an Exercise Program

February 15, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

Scientists hate to make hard conclusions when it comes to affirming anything. Thus, they are apt to call for future studies to confirm or dispute their findings. When a fitness program for little kids who …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: burn off excess weight, childhood obesity, fitness, higher risk of obesity, physically active

Part 3: The Science of Weight Loss Just Got Messier

October 31, 2015 By Irv Rubenstein

Can a food manufacturer or grower be faithful to science if it funds the researcher? And vice versa.   In Part 3 of a three-part series, I address this latest bit of unsettling news reported …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: burn off excess weight, diet, Exercise, higher risk of obesity, physically active

Sit Your Way to Death

October 21, 2015 By Irv Rubenstein

There has been much written over the past five decades on the benefits of exercise to counter the effects of modern, industrial Western society. But only in the past decade or so has much attention …

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Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: Heart Health, higher risk of obesity, inactivity, reduce your risk of falling, science of sedentariness

Does Your Child’s Obesity Start with In Utero Appetite Hormones?

January 23, 2015 By Irv Rubenstein

Here’s some intriguing new research  that shows a kid’s hormones at birth may lead to higher risk of obesity when they get older. One of the latest – say, over a decade now – areas …

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