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Health and Fitness Tips: August 2012

A Point to Ponder: 'Tis the season of fad diets promising dramatic weight loss results. No matter what you’ve heard, exercise is the most beneficial way to lose weight and keep it off. Dieting without exercise seldom leads to successful w...
Health and Fitness Tips: July 2012

A Point to Ponder: The first half of the year has come and gone. Many of you are likely experiencing success in keeping a new year's weight loss resolution. If this is the case, try not to reward your efforts by splurging with unhealthy foods that are ...
Cellulite: My Battle With The Bulge

A while back a young lady posed a question to me on Facebook regarding cellulite. Although I provided her with the answer she sought, I decided to dive a little deeper into this topic by providing some insight from my own personal experiences. I’ve ...
Health and Fitness Tips: June 2012

A Point to Ponder: With the summertime fast approaching I'd like to encourage you all to stay healthy and physically fit. Given that summer is a season of vacations, picnics, cookouts, happy hour, pizza by the slice, ice cream, sugary frozen beve...
The Supreme Court Upholds Healthcare Law: Are “Healthy” Folks Getting the Short End of the Stick?

While I am not diametrically opposed to The Supreme Court's decision to uphold President Obama’s healthcare law, I do have some issues with this law in general. I consider myself moderately conservative on a whole host of issues but I am particu...
Health and Fitness Tips: May 2012

A Point to Ponder: Excess fat puts you at increased risk for chronic illnesses such as heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and type II diabetes, even if your body weight is “normal”. The most effective way to decrease excess...
Health and Fitness Tips: April 2012

A Point to Ponder: While a daily exercise bout is great, research shows that it is counterproductive if you’re seated at a computer or on a couch for the majority of the day. In fact, every hour you spend in a seated position increases your risk of h...
Fitness Tip: Get More Out of Your Walk

Gradually increase your exercise intensity (how hard you work) and/or duration (how long you work out) in order to improve your physical fitness. For example, if your fitness goals are centered on losing weight, 30 minutes of walking won’t cut it fore...
Nutrition Tip: The Power of Chocolate

You can lose 1/2 to 1 pound per week easily and effortlessly by creating a negative calorie balance between 250 to 500 calories a day. For example, replace your daily candy bar with a small piece of organic dark chocolate and save yourself over 200 calo...
Nutrition Tip: Beware of the Tasting Station

Beware of this apparatus! Just a few free samples in a grocery store can cost you well over 500 calories. Consider this:-1/2 of a chicken slider (sample size) is equal to 160 calories.-A 1 oz. sample size of chicken pot pie is equal to 180 calories.-A 4...
Nutrition Tip: How to Stop Overeating

Numerous studies show that many people overeat due to a misunderstanding of the "serving size". Use the following as a quick guide for judging serving sizes:1 teaspoon of butter/margarine = 1 die3 ounces of fish, poultry, or meat = 1 deck of cards1 cup ...
Health and Fitness Tips: March 2012

A Point to Ponder: Your environment may not always support your efforts to be healthy but the fact of the matter is that you are in charge of your own lifestyle behaviors. Healthy living is all about choice. You have many opportunities to make posi...
Health and Fitness Tips: December 2011

Fitness Tip: No time to lift weights? Here's a solution for you. Dedicate just 10 minutes every day to working 1 major muscle group. All you'll need is a set of dumbbells and a bench. Perform 3 sets of 3 different exercises (one after the other) for each...
Health and Fitness Tips: November 2011

Health Tip: Adherence to exercise and good nutrition can naturally lead to a body composition that is appropriate for you. Body composition involves your physical makeup in terms of the relative percentage of body fat (adipose tissue) to fat-free weight ...
Spring Cleaning

I can’t begin to tell you how often people ask me for advice on internal cleansing, especially before the Summer starts. Internal cleansing is a method of detoxification and an excellent way to: 1) initiate a lifestyle change (i.e. converting to...
The Time

About a week ago, I had an interesting conversation with a woman I’d met on the Metra while on my way to UIC. We will call her Lisa for the sake of privacy. Our correspondence began when Lisa complimented me on my hairdo saying that she’...
The Skinny on Being Fat

So you think you’ll never get fat because you’ve always been skinny? Do you consider your body weight to be healthy because your bathroom scale says so? Well if you’re slacking off on healthy habits like exercise and regular physical activit...
5 Tips for a Muffin Top

If you are one of the many individuals out there struggling with an unsightly appearance of fat just above the waistline ("muffin top") then these 5 fitness tips may be of some value to you. The appearance of a muffin top is simply the result of a centr...
The Truth About Colonics

Many years ago, I played secret shopper and became a victim of fraudulent activity masked as 'colonic' cleansing. I pretended that I knew nothing about the human body and proceeded to ask a 'colon tech' about the logic behind the colonic cleansing...
Losing Weight and Looking Flabulous

Has your dramatic weight loss resulted in an appearance of loose, flabby skin? This is a common occurrence when a large amount of weight is lost through crash dieting, extreme calorie restriction (i.e. less than 1,200 calories per day), or excessive amo...