Yep, I just went there. I just appropriated a social trope (stay woke) in order to help you stay healthy over the holidays. For those of you still dozing out there, “stay woke” is a social/political term that refers to being aware of various forms of oppression and injustice in the world, including all the…
We’ve all done it on occasion…sat down with a quart of Haagen-Dazs, been forced to undo our pants at the buffet table, scarfed down two Whoppers at a single sitting, or split and licked our way through an entire container of Oreos while watching a Hallmark movie. In other words, we have all overeaten occasionally,…
(The above title, folks, is as poetic as I get. I apologize for beginning with a parenthetic reference, but I thought you might like to know, or not). Food and our moods are inexorably linked. We know, for example, that when we’re feeling stressed or depressed (Hey, more rhyming) we tend to eat unhealthy, high…
Let me come clean here, I’m having a heck of a time wrapping my mind around the existence of telomeres and their role in our health and the anti-aging process. I just read a medical study on telomeres and how they can be used as health-related barometers of sorts and my head hurt in a…
Along the same lines as the title of this post are: “How to sing like Adele,” How to make love like you were 20 again,” and “How to have more free time and be your own boss.” I jest, of course. Obviously, you can only achieve one of the above “how to” possibilities. The question…
Quite a few things come with age…wisdom, hair in new and unwanted places, and crow’s feet being among them. And I almost forgot, weight gain, usually in the form of that muffin top escaping from the top of your jeans just as a real muffin top rises from the confines of its crinkly container (Elaine,…
We tend to follow trends and, with regard to diets, this very much holds true. Currently, the new trendy trend among diets is what’s known as the ketogenic, or keto, diet. Look on magazine covers while standing in the grocery checkout lines, diet and/or food websites and you’ll inevitably see something about the keto diet. …
It’s the most common refrain heard by those seeking to lose weight, “eat less and exercise.” And there’s a very good reason for that. It works. Burn more calories, per day, than you take in and you’ll lose weight. Is it really that simple? Yes and no. Yes, because it it’s a simple math equation…
“She had her drink in her hand. She had her toes in the sand…” (Van Halen, Beautiful Girls). Yes, the beach beckons and you’re answering the call this summer. However, unlike those care-free boys (Beautiful Girls was released in 1979) from Van Halen, you’re older now and, as a result, you’ve become more safety conscious….
OK, you might not currently be classified as a thin person, but that should, in no way, preclude you from thinking like one. In fact, research has shown that it will assist you in becoming one with a little patience and re-configuring how you think about food, exercise and sleep. Act and think thin now…