Is your New Year’s resolution to lose weight? Here are five bad strategies to avoid, according to Aaron Michelfelder, MD, of Loyola University Health System: Bad Strategy No. 1: I’ll lose weight at the gym. Working out is good for your health and can help to maintain your weight. But exercise alone is not very … Read more
Mark Mattson, the National Institute on Aging’s chief of neurosciences, has dedicated much of his 20-year career to examining how diet affects brain cells. And based on what he’s seen, he’s jumped on the fasting bandwagon himself. Most recently, Mattson and his colleagues studied the salubrious effects of intermittent fasting, practiced either every other day … Read more
Sadly, as we get older evil forces conspire against us to make losing weight more difficult. From years of abuse (why’d you have to love softball so much?) our muscles and joints become less cooperative. They’re stiffer, they hurt more, and they make exercising a lot less convenient. And that’s just the beginning. Our metabolism … Read more
One of the major causes of chronic stress in the modern environment is sleep deprivation and disturbance. Even a single day of sleep deprivation can increase cortisol levels by over 100%. Sleep duration has been declining over the last few decades. In 1910, people slept 9 hours on average. By 1960, surveys indicated that Americans … Read more
When it comes to shedding stubborn belly fat, exercise alone is not the answer. The master key really lies with what you eat, and perhaps more importantly when you eat, followed closely by the type of exercise you engage in. Scheduling your eating to a narrow window of time each day is the version of … Read more
A recent article by David Zinczenko, author of the book, Zero Belly Diet, addresses a number of specific foods that can help promote a leaner belly by decreasing inflammation, eliminating bloat, and turning off your fat storage genes. Zinczenko writes, in part: “Zero Belly is based on the breakthrough science of ‘nutritional genetics…’ In early … Read more
We all know those people that seem to have the world’s fastest metabolism. They seem to be able to eat whatever they want, whenever they want without any consequences. Then there is you, trying every trick from drinking ice water and green tea to adding strength training into your exercise routine just to give your … Read more