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Category Archives: Diet and Exercise
Sugar is only toxic sometimes
Finally, a very sane analysis of what sugar does in your body. Robert Lustig, who is most famous for saying “Sugar is toxic,” lays out the case in a more sensible, less sloganistic fashion by saying that the fructose in … Continue reading
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Grapefruit is a powerful drug
For 43 of the 85 drugs now on the list, consumption with grapefruit can be life-threatening, Dr. Bailey said. Many are linked to an increase in heart rhythm, known as torsade de pointes, that can lead to death. It can … Continue reading
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More bad news for Ibuprofen during exercise
I’ve written about how ibuprofen may interfere with muscle development when taken after exercise, but it is not good to take during exercise either. For a while it has been known that it can cause people to ignore damage happening … Continue reading
Exercise protects the brain
Yet more evidence that exercise protects the brain against inevitable (but delayable) decline.
Selling exercise
How to convince people to exercise? People need it, but most people don’t do it. A study says that we are marketing it all wrong. Forget exercise to lose weight, be healthier, or live longer. Try telling people exercise will … Continue reading
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Lack of exercise is not the cause of the problem (but it is part of the solution)
Yet more evidence that a lack of exercise and energy expenditure is not the cause of the epidemic of obesity. This is part of the evidence that simply exercising more is not the answer to losing weight or reducing the … Continue reading
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Running on the beach
A nice Well Blog piece about running in sand. Definitely fun and definitely a work out in the soft stuff. Having grown up in Santa Cruz, I have thought and experimented a lot with figuring out the most efficient stride.
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A calorie IS just a calorie
A nice interview in the NYTimes today with a Rockefeller University researcher who has been studying obesity for decades. The key point he makes, which people must understand as a baseline for a discussion of diets, is that ultimately a … Continue reading
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Testing female athletes for “excess” testosterone
I see that the official international rules regarding who can and can’t compete continue to get more ridiculous. First, there was the ruling that Oscar Pistorius could run on prosthetic legs because no one could prove that he had any … Continue reading
“Evils” of sugar roundup
In the Guardian there is a nice summary of the ideas about how sugar, not fat, causes obesity. I am in agreement. As always, I would like to point out something that many (such as Lustig) gloss over or outright … Continue reading
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