Belly Fat Myths And Facts
No subject in health and fitness attracts more hustlers and hucksters than belly fat. The often-cited Kevin Trudeau, for example, did not have a cure for belly fat. In the...
How Often You Do Pushups Is As Important As How Many You Do
Bodyweight exercises such as pushups are a great way to build muscle. Doing more and more pushups, however, doesn't necessarily result in building more muscle. The way a pushup or...
Lowering Cholesterol: What You Need To Know
Cholesterol tends to be misunderstood in two different ways. One common misunderstanding is that somehow cholesterol "clogs the pipes" and accumulates inside arteries when cholesterol levels are too high. This...
An Anti-Inflammatory Diet For Lupus And Other Autoimmune Diseases
The common thread of lupus, Sjogren's syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, placque psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and Crohn's disease is inflammation. Diet makes both more and less difference in managing these diseases than...
Do You Really Need To Stretch Before Exercise?
For about as long as there have been gyms, trainers and other fitness experts have been telling people who exercise that stretching is essential for preventing injury. The truth of...
Modified Tai Chi Is Suitable For Almost Anyone
As I write this medical answer, I myself am in a short-term nursing facility. Two months ago we had major flooding. I had to wade through flood waters that had...
What to Do When You Just Don't Have an Appetite
About two weeks ago a dear friend of mine, with whom I speak nearly every day, who is terminally ill, told me she was ready to end it all and...
Water: How Much Is Enough?
Back in 1992, an Iranian doctor named F. Batmanghelidj wrote a book entitled Your Body's Many Cries For Water. An immediate bestseller, the book persuaded many American readers that dehydration was...
Restless Leg Syndrome And What To Do About It
Restless legs syndrome, which is also known by its acronym RLS, is sometimes responsive to nutritional supplementation. It's not a good idea just to start supplementing on a hunch. You...
Getting Enough Magnesium without Getting Too Much
Magnesium is an extraordinarily helpful supplement for almost all of us. Unless you happen to eat lots and lots (more than seven servings a day) of greens, you happen to...