Live Long and Strong

Yes, Choose My Food Plate!

The Food Plate is in, and the Food Pyramid is history. The healthy diet is simpler now, better and comes with a host of tools to dive into your particulars in order to suggest a diet that will work for you. But there are a few issues I have with the tools. If you’re muscular, you won’t get the correct advice. And what’s with the milk!?

The New Food Pyramid is a Plate

As the New York Times puts it: “Goodbye to the Food Pyramid, Hello to the Dinner Plate”. Will it be more instructive and provide better guidance to the American public?

Three Months to Longer Life

It’s all about telomeres, that DNA on the tips of chromosomes. Telomere length is the marker for longevity – the shorter they become, the shorter your life. Good news is, you can protect and even extend them, and thus, your life. Learn how.

What You Sow, You Reap… when the Enemy is Us

In the absence from blogging these past weeks, I was pulled into family issues on both coasts and relearned a lesson we all know but perhaps do not emphasize enough as we make the decisions that make our life. IT’S A common admonition among bloggers to beware the writer’s block that is surely in their […]

90% Of Sustained Weight Loss Includes Exercise and Diet

The aim: To dismantle the confusion about exercise and diet as they relate to weight loss. I present several studies that may seem contradictory and try to find the nuggets of truth.

Eating for a Long Life: WebMD’s 13 Tips

This cogent presentation of 13 slides (one a commercial that bears review for what not to consume), brings together in one place a summary of various posts that echo what I’ve written about on this blog — How eating the right food can be the best prescription for living a long and strong life.

Dr. Oz Tackles the hCG Diet

Dr. Oz jumps into the hCG diet controversy. Is it a sham or an effective, healthy way to lose weight? Dr.Oz weighs in about the pros and cons. Watch what my sister says about it.

Eat Fiber, Live Longer, Healthier too! Watch

Dr. Hyman, a recent government study, and health practitioners everywhere extol the virtues of fiber. Reducing the incidence of cancer, heart disease, high cholesterol and blood sugar are a few of the benefits. Learn how to eat more of it.

A Lesson from Overweight Kids and Two Dead Fitness Icons

Having overweight kids is often the result of working mother’s not having the time to prepare home prepared meals. The need for proper nutrition is underscored by the deaths of two fitness icons.

10 Winter Health Myths

Knowing what’s true and false about health matters is confusing. Here, 10 myths about staying healthy in winter are exposed. That chicken soup’s effectiveness against a cold is just a wives tale, and losing most of your heat from your head are just two myths presented.