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 …
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 …
Another Theory on Why Some Folks Are Obese?
Happy New Year! It’s that time of year when, again, so many of us promise that we’re going to shed excess weight by eating righter or better or less – nah, nobody actually commits to …
The Greatest, Bigliest Exercise Ever
Weight loss and weight management are major bugaboos for the fitness/wellness world, not because they’re not useful draws and marketing ideas but because they’re so very hard to do, like breaking up. As I’ve posted …
Part 2: Sane Weight Loss: The 2/3 Diet
In Part 1 of this two part series, I discussed the two articles on dieting and my experience speaking with professionals who help those with eating disorders resume/restore a healthy/healthier relationship with food…and exercise. I wrote …
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 …
Which Comes First – the Excess Weight or a Dysfunctional Immune System?
There is a fairly new and widely-believed current of thought that many lifestyle diseases – heart, metabolic, cancers, even obesity itself – are related to if not caused by excess inflammation. And inflammation is a …
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Eat More, Lose More: The Paradox of the Mediterranean Diet
One should never throw all his apples into one basket. In science, some will rot, others will dry up, and a few might taste really good…for now. So when I read a study touting the …
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