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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 – …
The Diet Amnesty: Why You Shouldn’t Blame (Just) Yourself – Part 1Read More
A recent article on-line declares that researchers are homing in on what it called “the perfect amount of exercise for a longer life”. As you might imagine, reading beyond the headline could be grounds for, …
Trying to keep up with what’s going on in the fitness/wellness sciences is difficult. Every time some new ‘thing’ hits the media, it stirs up interest from many of my clients in the meaning and …
The Unadulterated Value of Exercise vs the Over-hyped Value of Diets and SupplementsRead More
In a fascinating but abbreviated article on a potential cause of worldwide obesity, the “protein leverage hypothesis” offers new meat to chew on, but some very critical pieces are missing. First let me summarize, the …
The “Protein Leverage Hypothesis” of Obesity and Why Isn’t Activity Mentioned???Read More
What I Learned This Summer: On Fats and Fatness; The Joy of Joint Replacement; How To Recover From Surgery. Also, Rest In Peace, Ted Welch. fithappens.spring.2014
This is the second installment of a 3 Part essay on diabetes and exercise that I did for Medical Fitness Network (http://medicalfitnessnetwork.org/). The first section is descriptive of the mechanisms of the two main types …
Much has been written about dieting, exercising, or combining the two for effective weight loss. Many a book, and many an author, have pretended to know the answer for the vast majority of those carrying …
Why It’s So Hard to Lose Weight (originally posted 10/27/11)Read More
This op-ed in the Times – http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/when-big-food-makes-its-… – highlights perhaps one of the strangest elements of american politics that has long gone unencumbered by both parties: the revolving door and closed feedback loop of those …
The mckinsey quarterly report, an on line economics think-tank-like publication, comes from an economics/business perspective and articles deal with everything from banking to investing to market dynamics….to health care. Why not? That’s the fastest growing …
This chart, from the McKinsey Quarterly, a free, on-line business resource, demonstrates the real and devastating costs of obesity in america. as the article points out, these costs are rising world-wide: http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/newsletters/chartfocus/2011_01.htm I have written …
