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Exercise Humor: “Just Coasting”

April 11, 2015
Exercise Humor: “Just Coasting”
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

2014’s The Biggest Loser Shows Us the Power of Exercise

February 17, 2014
2014’s The Biggest Loser Shows Us the Power of Exercise
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

How to Jump Start Your Summer with a Few Weight-Loss Ideas

June 9, 2013
How to Jump Start Your Summer with a Few Weight-Loss Ideas
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

Make Exercise Fun and People Will Do It

October 16, 2009
Make Exercise Fun and People Will Do It
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

There’s dowager hump. Now dowager bump?

August 25, 2009
There's dowager hump.  Now dowager bump?
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

Staying Young While Getting Older Takes Work

August 13, 2009
Staying Young While Getting Older Takes Work
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

Exercising is all in the words

April 28, 2009
Exercising is all in the words
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