Raise your hand if you know someone who has gone on a diet at some point in their life (Yes, you can include yourself – I won’t tell anybody). Hmmm! Most everybody. Thanks for participating. Now, leave your hand up if that/those individual(s) stayed with it and adopted a change in their way of life.… Continue reading The Truth About Diets – They Are As Sensible As Lottery Tickets!
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The Single, Most Important Thing You Can Change to Ensure a Longer and Healthier Life.
If we simply look at the stats behind the most prevalent lifestyle habits that cause early death, we have to come down on diet as the one most responsible for shortening our lives. As this chart points out, the combination of poor diet with inactivity has now surpassed smoking/tobacco as the main cause. Choosing to… Continue reading The Single, Most Important Thing You Can Change to Ensure a Longer and Healthier Life.
Why Do the Japanese Outlive Us in America – Without a 24 Hour Fitness?
Photo by Ash Edmonds on Unsplash Remember when GM, Ford, Chrysler scoffed at the quality of Japanese “rice burners” that started showing up on the U.S. market back in the 1970s and dismissed their presence as a potential threat. Not long thereafter, the American auto industry started rolling out gems like this rolling bathtub – – while Toyota… Continue reading Why Do the Japanese Outlive Us in America – Without a 24 Hour Fitness?
Asking Your Forgiveness – I’ve Been Helping You Die Early.
Alexas_Fotos on Pixabay I was mad last week. I was only 1/3 through Dr. Robert Lustig’s book, “Metabolical”, at the time. Now I’m 7/8 through. I’m madder – with a permanent state of mad. I’ve also discovered I owe you, dear reader, an apology. I’ve misled you with some of my writing. If you’ve tracked… Continue reading Asking Your Forgiveness – I’ve Been Helping You Die Early.
Must life go downhill as we age, or do we have a choice?
Yes, life does go downhill, but – -we have some choices in the matter. Not with the eventuality of it, but with the starting point and the pace. The reality is, we took out a death certificate at birth. Or, as retired Stanford geriatric physician, Dr. Walter Bortz once wrote: “Life is a fatal disease. Once… Continue reading Must life go downhill as we age, or do we have a choice?
On Hot Dogs, Senators, and Prescriptions for Beans, Broccoli, Bananas, and Blueberries.
Photo by call me hangry on Unsplash What’s your reaction when you look at this picture? My reaction? I’m like a Pavlov dog – I start salivating. Put a brat with mustard on a white bun within a city block of me and I’m off my heath-and-wellness rails in a heartbeat in my clamor… Continue reading On Hot Dogs, Senators, and Prescriptions for Beans, Broccoli, Bananas, and Blueberries.