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Health and Wellness

Avandia Linked To Heart Attacks.

by Eugene Thong on February 20, 2010

From CNN.com.
It should surprise no one in the health or medical field that the diabetes drug Avandia is linked to an increased risk of heart attacks (at least, not after Steven Nissen’s 2007 study of Avandia).  Unfortunately, for most doctors, Plan B is to simply prescribe another drug.
“Don’t worry about the Avandia scare, Mrs. Jones; [...]

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They Just Don’t Get It.

by Eugene Thong on March 11, 2009

Either you hate the new Watchmen movie or you love it.  Some people won’t be able to get past the violence.  Some will be turned off by the full-frontal nudity and the laugh-out-loud ridiculousness of scoring a sex scene with Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelulah.”  And some people just flat-out won’t get it.
If you’re attentive (or a [...]

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Trends.

February 16, 2009

For a while, fitness was all about health.  All the writings from the early days of Physical Culture pay tribute not just to the prodigious amounts John Grimek and Abbye Stockton could lift, but to their glowing skin, radiant spirits, and general exuberance of health.
Then, in the 60s and 70s, fitness became all about pushing [...]

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Reading Between the Lines.

November 17, 2008

Last week I posted on the JUPITER study and the media hoopla surrounding it.
Well, looks like they’re not done yet:
Eat Your Statins.
“Eat Your Statins?“  For heaven’s sake.
There’s not much in this article that hasn’t been discussed or debunked at length on this and other blogs, but a couple of lines are worth highlighting:
The drugs have [...]

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My Philosophy, Simplified.

November 10, 2008

The problem.
The cure:

Can you condense your health and fitness philosophy into 3 sentences or less?  Post it to comments.

    

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How Aging Affects Exercise.

November 5, 2008

In light of recent events and client queries, here are some quick blurbs about how aging affects exercise:
Greater chance of injury. As I wrote about in a recent post, injuries tend to accrue rather than occur.  In other words, by gradually wearing down your joints due to activity and as an inevitable result of aging, [...]

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Real Food is Better For You.

September 29, 2008

…in almost every single case.
Take this picture from Regina Wilshire’s blog, for instance:

While corn isn’t the best of all possible choices for you (it is a cereal grain, after all), you can easily see how eating the actual foodstuff is far, far better than its synthetic counterpart (that’d be high fructose corn syrup).
Corn growers would [...]

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Doctors and Exercise.

September 15, 2008

Are you surprised at the amount of confusion and mixed messages that you get from the media and health professionals (such as doctors, nurses, etc.)?
“It’s good to strength train but don’t lift anything heavy; walk everyday for 30 minutes for “exercise”, but anything you do can be considered exercise; eggs are bad for you; eggs [...]

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Wall-E and Obesity.

July 16, 2008

*** Warning – Spoilers ahead! ***

Pixar’s Wall-E is cautionary tale; not just of the environment and planetary stewardship, but personal stewardship as well. Although a work of fiction, the film is scattered with reminders of how lack of movement and poor diet (and lack of self-responsibility) can lead to obesity and early death in [...]

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The Chinese Don’t Get Fat.

July 14, 2008

Or do they? (Check out Dr. Eades‘ great post on this study)
Most of the China studies I’ve read deal with rural Chinese and appear to show that their low-fat, high-grain diet is superior for health. This, of course, flies in the face of all Western research, which clearly shows a link between carbohydrate [...]

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