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Posted: Friday, Apr 01, 2011 1:07 pm
Early today morning, in a surprisingly bi-partisan vote, both houses of the U.S. Congress passed a major new law that imposes strict punishments on the nations almost 33% obese population if they did not take immediate and dramatic action to change their diet and exercise habits.
Titled the “Federal Overly…
Posted: Saturday, Apr 10, 2010 10:09 pm
You have read it here many times before: “Fat is not the enemy”. In fact, in Fat Fiction I wrote about some of the more common misconceptions about fat and how our body deals with it. The Fitness Mantra bottom-line has always been that fat, one of the three macro-nutrients,…
Posted: Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 9:42 am
Folks, it’s been a long time coming and I don’t think I can lie to myself (or to you) anymore. Diets, exercise, this paranoid – almost maniacal – eye on calories in, calories out… none of it is working for me (and accept it – it’s not working out so…
Posted: Saturday, Oct 24, 2009 2:55 pm
The garden is one of the few places that many people would confess feeling truly ambivalent about. While it’s true that a beautifully maintained garden not only adds beauty and value to the home or community it graces, but also provides a sanctuary for nature lovers or serenity-seekers, what’s also…
Posted: Saturday, Jun 13, 2009 7:31 pm
A simple concept about the food we eat and what it does for us. But I haven’t seen it expressed quite so succinctly:
“Every bite you eat is an act of nourishment or an act of suicide.” – Dr. Bruce Bond
So, what do you choose? Good or bad? Fitness…
Posted: Tuesday, Jun 02, 2009 8:38 pm
Consider two simple scenarios you could be facing at lunchtime: when you have a solid food and water, you could eat those separately or you could premix them into a soup and drink the whole thing together. Which of the two techniques do you think will keep you full longer…
Posted: Monday, Jun 01, 2009 8:07 pm
If you are a person who regularly eats out then this news item should come as no surprise at all. With portion sizes constantly on the increase and restaurants forever trying to figure out how to increase the taste in their dishes, is it any wonder that the first casualty…
Posted: Sunday, May 31, 2009 8:40 pm
Another little fitness-quotation gem I came across yesterday and thought it worth sharing:
Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. -Edward Stanley
It’s a choice we make everyday: be healthy or not, stick to our diets or…
Posted: Saturday, May 30, 2009 8:45 pm
Salt, how do we hate thee, let me count the ways! Sometimes the public is so quick to get on the nutrition bandwagon and demonize a perceived common enemy, that common sense and due diligence are often shown the door (case in point: our fear of saturated fat, cholesterol, ……
Posted: Friday, May 29, 2009 8:41 pm
It’s well known that as you age, unless you take active steps to remain healthy and fit, you tend to gradually put on more fat and lose muscle mass. What is not so well known, however, is what those specific preventive steps really are.
True, a healthful diet and frequent,…
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