Some humor for your day: After the exercisers had already gone through the usual calisthenics of push-ups, sit-ups and jumping jacks, the instructor asked the class to do the stationary bicycle floor routine.  That’s where you lay on your back, get your legs up in the air, and then move them...Read more

I’m sure you’re heard a lot about the controversy over the winner of the 2014’s The Biggest Lower competition, Rachel Frederickson. She dropped 155 pounds in the span of 7 months. That’s about 22 pounds per month. While impressive, it’s not a healthy way to lose weight. As a dietitian and weight-loss...Read more

Some parts of the country are already into bathing suits while others are just starting to see it get warm enough for bathing suits. Wherever you live, here are a few tips on making sure you still fit into that bathing suit. While exercise is great for burning calories, it’s your general physical...Read more

As in the movie, Field of Dreams, where novice farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice whispering, “If you build it, he will come”, if you make exercise fun, people will come. Actually, the best approach is to never let them know it’s exercise.   Watch this: http://tinyurl.com/yclbbf9  Read more

Tabloids seem to have their eyes peeled for celebrity “bumps”. In other words, is so-and-so pregnant? Who named it the “bump” I don’t know, but it obviously is very descriptive of one’s physical shape. I suppose that’s why older women with osteoporosis are said...Read more

They say “youth is wasted on the young”. This has much meaning as you get older. You don’t repair as quickly. When you’re young and, say, you hurt your shoulder lifting a heavy box, by the following week or so that incident is completely forgotten. If that same injury happened...Read more

As I was reading the latest issue of Nutriton Action Healthletter, a short piece caught my eye. It talked about how using the action words such as “go” in “Go exercise” encouraged people to eat. Why? Because with that word “go” they believed they needed to fuel up...Read more