Get More Sunshine in Your Life
Failing that, take a vitamin D supplement. It’s a little unusual to see mainstream docs actually recommending supps, but the evidence in favor of supplementing with vitamin D is piling up. As the latest Harvard Heart Letter explains: Heart disease. Falls and broken bones. Breast and prostate cancer. Depression and memory loss. These problems seem to have nothing in common, except that they are leading causes of faltering health...
Be Smart: Get Fit!
This is true in more ways than one. Getting/staying fit isn’t just a smart idea… according to new research, it may also make you smarter. According to the LA Times blog “Booster Shots”: That dumb jock might be smarter than he looks December 18, 2009 For young men, the fitter you are, the better your brain works. A study recently published online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences took...
A New Year’s Gift for My Kids
This book review from NYT nutrition writer Jane Brody just caught my eye… Recipes to Set Teenagers on a Healthy Path …There is no better time than now to change this trajectory and get the nation’s youngsters on a more wholesome track. And there may be no better way to start than by consulting a new book, “Eat Fresh Food: Awesome Recipes for Teen Chefs,” (Bloomsbury), by the award-winning chef Rozanne Gold in collaboration...
Offensive or Effective?
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. This probably goes double for graphic, gross-out pics, which is why the New York City Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene decided to use them to dissuade New Yorkers from “Pouring on the Pounds.” New Campaign Asks New Yorkers if They’re “Pouring On the Pounds” Health Department encourages consumers to choose beverages with less sugar August 31, 2009 – It’s hard to overeat...
USADA Launches “Supplement Safety Now” Site
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has a new site dedicated to its latest crusade: getting supplements containing “designer steroids” and illegal stimulants off the market. Called “Supplement Safety Now,” the organization (a non-governmental agency responsible for implementing the World Anti-Doping Agency guidelines in the US), is currently lobbying Congress for substantial changes in how the FDA regulates dietary...
Speaking of Exercise Gimmicks… Shoes!
Tara Parker-Pope has an appropriately skeptical post in the NYT about those Reebok “Easy Tone” shoes… here’s the money quote: But the claim that the shoes offer muscle toning is backed by a single study involving just five people, not published in a peer-reviewed academic journal. In that study, done at the University of Delaware, five women walked on a treadmill for 500 steps wearing either the EasyTone or...
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