If you hate to go to the gym, you are not alone. The good news is – you can get results in the comfort of your own home with some simple home exercises.
Bodyweight training CAN be effective. It CAN be a substitute for weights, if necessary. Training using your own body weight as a source [...]
Last week I taught Module II of Leadership Strategies for Information Technology in Healthcare at the Harvard School of Public Health.
My students included administrators, clinicians, CIOs, CMOs, and policymakers.
On the first day, I gave them a homework assignment – read my overview of the BIDMC/BIDPO EHR implementation project and then develop a list of barriers [...]
More than how much you eat, what you eat determines the satisfaction level of a meal. Nutritionist Sneha Jain lists 10 foods that make you feel full, without making you fat.
Fast food. Drive thrus. They are the devil. BUT, they can also be godsends. Not only to moms, but especially to moms. I am not a fast food nazi although I know that there are much smarter, better, healthier choices to fill our bellies and our children’s bellies with. But sometimes, [...]
Last night I went through my entire receipt file in order to make room for 2010’s receipts. I threw out everything I wouldn’t need to keep anymore but had to actually look over all the papers again in order to do this. (I have a pretty good habit of keeping receipts just [...]
Almost half of the calls we receive at Pet Poison Helpline involve human medications—both over-the-counter and prescription. Sometimes dogs chew into pill bottles or well intentioned pet owners accidently mix up packages and give their pets a human medication. However pet poisonings from human medications happen, they can be serious.
Below is a list of the [...]
Most fitness professionals have seen or heard it all. Miracle diets, perfect workouts, promises of flat abs in two minutes a day. Chris Hoover, fitness supervisor at the Jewish Community Center in St. Louis, says he constantly sees people acting on that misinformation.
“I don’t know what it is,” he says. “They see a big muscle [...]
To paraphrase a great old slogan for Guinness beer: Sex isn’t just good, it’s good for you!
Okay, so maybe there’s some wishful thinking going on — the science isn’t exactly iron-clad — but evidence is accumulating that the more sex you have, the better off you are.
There is one caveat, though. “We do not [...]
The most common sports related injuries, are overuse and strain injuries. An overuse injury results from excessive wear and tear on the body, particularly on areas and muscles subjected to repeated activity such as ankle, knee, shoulder and elbow joints.
The most common high impact sport that leads to injury is running. Sports medicine experts report [...]
Matters of the heart have baffled humans since the dawn of time, with sonnets and entire books devoted to the meaning of love. Now scientists are finding that the blood pump in your chest is just as complex. You can’t live or love without it. Find out the sappy scoop on the heart, including how [...]
To really succeed at losing weight, you have to first realize what NOT to do. I’ve listed the top 5 mistakes that most people make when trying to lose weight. By avoiding these 5 things and focusing on what actually works, success is guaranteed.
The results are in and all bets are off – - Sin City weighs in as the metropolis with the most pounds. Las Vegas has been named the fattest city in the U.S. in Men’s Fitness’ “9th Annual Fattest and Fittest Cities in America Report.” San Antonio comes in at #2, up ten spots from [...]
It seems like there is always that guy in the bar that has a crazy story about the beer he’s drinking. The worst part, sometimes its believable, so you tell someone, then they tell someone, and thats a beer myth. Here are ten of the more outrageous myths about beer and what you need to [...]
Every year, like clockwork, DISCOVER digs through reams of newspapers and gigabytes of Web sites to find the 100 most important and interesting science stories of the year. We’re unveiling the top stories from 2006 over the next couple of weeks, one subject at a time. Here’s the whole list (only subscribers get access to [...]
“Losing weight can be as simple as cutting out a meatball here and an egg roll there.” ~~Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D.
REACHING YOUR FAT-LOSS GOALS may be easier than you think. To lose a pound of fat a month, all you need to do is cut 100 calories a day from your diet, assuming the [...]
We hear it all the time. If you’re overweight you need to exercise for weight loss. Doctors tell you, nutritionists tell you, your neighbors tell you, and now the television set tells you. But what most don’t tell you is HOW to exercise for weight loss. I get calls all of the time from frustrated [...]
Here are some interesting myths – number two says your brain is like a computer, well if there is a computer out there like my brain, then god help the user!!
What is metabolism?
If you can think of your body as a car for a moment, and your food as gasoline, then metabolism is the process of burning gasoline in order to hurl yourself along the freeway at 70 miles an hour, i.e. it’s the process of making your body go.
Metabolism describes the sum [...]
