Lately I have been thinking a lot about the importance of understanding how to choose exercises that directly apply to specific goals, rather than ones that we simply think are good to do for the sake of doing. We all have favorites that we have found to be effective in
NPR (Reality Check: To Burn Off A Soda You’ll Have To Run 50 Minutes) reported last Friday on research that was done at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health that I was thrilled to see! The researchers looked at what would happen if, instead of posting calories at restaurants, we posted
This is a topic that I have written about before (nutrition: don’t forget the big picture), but after delivering a webinar on childhood obesity, I found myself reflecting on it once again. Sometimes it can seem very unclear whether or not a certain food is good or bad, should be
We’ve got a national sleep deficit and the deprivation isn’t good for anybody. NPR ran an article in August covering a new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics regarding teens and sleep habits. The new policy states that teens require eight to ten hours of sleep but, due to
This is part 4 of Fitness and Sustainability. Over the last few segments (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) we have seen how growth drives our way of life in the developed world. In the last segment we saw the way in which that plays out with the nutrition industry.