I’m excited about a new certification that I completed this year. At Fitness Education Institute’s Eclipse 2014, a conference for personal trainers in New York City, I got to sit in on the lecture portion of the Functional Aging Specialist program. It is a program put together by two PhD’s out
Fats are tricky to talk about, which is why there has been some new back and forth on them this week. An article at the Guardian (Studies Saying Fat Is Not That Bad Are Misleading, Scientists Say) states that recent articles in March (Low Carb vs. Low Fat Diet) have led
Regulation of soda was back in the news this week. Apparently the latest is a consideration of a tax on sugary drinks. (Soda-Makers Try To Fizz Out Of Bay Area Tax Campaigns) The article reminded me of two years ago, when I took this picture, as the Bloomberg administration was
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
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