We have two philosophies about food that stand opposed to each other. One is the enjoyment of food as both a source of individual pleasure and deep cultural significance, the other is of food as a fuel that drives our physical prowess. This is a great opportunity to stop and
An article on the Washington Post this week, We’re Lucky If We Get To Be Old, Physician And Professor Believes, is drawing more attention to the changing attitudes about health as we enter into old age. While many associate growing older with ‘slowing down’ we really should be thinking the
There was a great article on the Guardian last week called No Diet, No Detox: How To Relearn the Art of Eating. It’s a wonderful report on how our eating habits have become disordered and the importance of finding a way to return to a more healthy, more psychologically balanced
I had the opportunity this last month to speak at a fitness conference on program design and to deliver a webinar on training clients with diabetes. I was searching for ways to supplement the relatively straightforward content with some other, perhaps lesser known aspects, and found a couple of points
I used to think that the world had to be perfectly clear. Every question needed to have one answer, every dilemma one solution, every scientific problem one fundamental explanation. I’ll admit, I still think it would be nice, but I have also come to recognize something else – there is
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