Losing more than a pound or two a week is not healthy. Rapid weight loss is bad for two main reasons. Lose weight fast and you will lose muscle First, if you lose weight quickly, you lose muscle along with fat. This is bad when it comes to losing weight. Muscle burns more calories than…
Category: Health Fitness
Running Safely – Health Risks Associated With Running
It is a bright and beautiful morning. The sky is clear and the birds are singing. All is well with the world. You look out the window and see your super fit next door neighbor putting on a pair of sneakers for his daily workout. They look at you and smile knowingly just before you…
Wugging for health and weight loss
If you hate exercising, you’re not alone. But instead of giving up exercise like most people do, try exercising. Woggling is fun. Wugging is healthy. And wiggling is a great way to lose weight. Wogging is a term for an exercise that combines the best of two worlds: walking and jogging. Wogging removes a lot…
Negative Calorie Foods List – Can Foods Really Have Negative Calories?
What are negative calorie foods? And how can something you eat have less than zero calories? Technically there is no such thing as a negative number of calories. Almost all foods have calories (water has zero calories, which is the lowest amount you can get). But it also costs us some effort to eat or…
KISS diet: the only diet you will ever need
So here is the problem. You, like millions of others, enjoyed the holidays and, with all the high-calorie foods, cookies, cakes, and candy canes, put on a few pounds. He probably resolved that as soon as January 2nd rolled around he would lose some weight. Well, the second of January has come and gone. He…
Bowflex for baby boomers
There are hundreds and maybe thousands of fitness gurus claiming to have the perfect answer, the “magic bullet” for fitness and a solution for a healthier body and lifestyle. Well, I’m not going to pretend to have the perfect answer! However, I do have some tips on easy-to-use exercise equipment that may be some of…
Abdominal fat: its health risks
Around our midsection, there are two different types of fat: subcutaneous and visceral. Subcutaneous- It means under the skin. It is the fat that we can see and pinch. But surprisingly, we need to worry less about the subcutaneous fat than about the visceral stuff. It is often described as a “passive” fat because it…
Are High Carb Diets Really Bad?
Based on the current collection of popular diets, one might think that high-carb diets are bad. Some of the most popular diets, like the Keto diet, seek to minimize carbohydrates as much as possible. Other diets, like the Paleo diet, allow fruits and vegetables but eliminate all grain products. Diets like Paleo don’t target carbs…
Aerobic Exercise: Benefits, Examples, and How to Know If You REALLY Do Aerobic Exercise
“Aerobics” is a term first coined by Dr. Kenneth Cooper, an exercise physiologist at San Antonio Air Force Hospital. He developed the formula of subtracting your age from 220 and exercising with your heart rate at 60-80% of that number. Although he originally formulated “aerobics” to help astronauts, he soon realized that this type of…
Modified Yoga Classes Help Cope With Post-Election Excitement
The current US election was brutal. Millions of people around the world hated the result; including myself. Past elections have brought the same disbelief. Many voters couldn’t believe when George W. Bush or Barack Obama got elected. There will always be an election or a period of time that causes extreme stress. I am not…