Families Exercise!
Are you a busy parent having difficulty finding time to squeeze in exercise? Do you want to instill good habits in your kids at an early age to help them be healthy adults? Exercise together! A study...
View ArticleFamily exercise times two: Adventures on our tandem
Dr. Sarah recently shared tips on exercising with your family, and I’d like to share my experiences in riding with my family on a tandem bicycle. Years ago I began bicycling to lose weight, and within...
View ArticleThe BMJ joins the fight + asks, where does the weight go?
In a recent edition of The BMJ (once known as The British Medical Journal) (December 17–24), Dr. Richard Smith, a British physician and the former editor of the highly respected publication, has...
View ArticleBreak your New Year’s resolutions [into pieces]
As the saying goes, resolutions go in one Year and out the other. For those of us who struggle with being overweight, our resolutions have the familiarity of a Groundhog Day TV marathon. It’s the same...
View ArticleExtra Credit, January 18
Extra Credit, January 18, 2015 Academics on the attack against sugar A new campaign based at the University of California, San Francisco, aims to make people aware of the dangers of sugar. This is a...
View ArticleExtra Credit, January 24
Metformin is thought to be the most widely prescribed drug for Type 2 diabetes. How much of it do we take in the Midwest? Enough that it’s measurable in the water in Lake Michigan—where’s it’s causing...
View ArticleExtra Credit, February 16
We’re very fond of the website and Twitter feed Ditch the Carbs. Good information and, wow, what great recipes (although not all are low-carb enough for keto). This graphic was one of their top posts...
View ArticleStick with your fitness routine, part 1
Working out is all about inertia. There’s something about exercise—maybe it’s an endorphin addiction—but when I’ve been working out steadily for a few weeks, I crave my next workout. And when I haven’t...
View ArticleBMJ sports medicine blog on exercise and diet
The BMJ (formerly The British Medical Journal) has a sport medicine blog, and they addressed recent research which showed that exercise alone is insufficient for losing weight (although the study’s...
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