Posted on February 22, 2010 by admin
The City Council of Los Angeles has granted Michael Torchia’s declaration to make the week of March 14th, 2010 an Annual Holiday called “Health and Fitness Week” in the State of California. Mayor Villaraigosa will personally be awarding the honor to Michael Torchia at the launch of the Shape Up America Campaign 30-city tour. This [...]
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Posted on December 9, 2009 by admin
The case for cardio exercise just keeps on getting stronger. First a University of Princeton team shows that exercise lets lab rats (Note: I mean actual laboratory rats here) produce neurons with improved stress response (i.e. they don’t respond), and now a group of Swedish neuroscientists is telling us that improved cardiovascular fitness actually makes [...]
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Posted on December 4, 2009 by admin
Less than 10 percent of U.S. high school students are eating the combined recommended daily amount of fruits and vegetables, a finding that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called “poor” in a recent report.
The report based on 2007 data found that only 13 percent of U.S. high school students get at least [...]
Posted on November 11, 2009 by admin
To get down to a healthy weight, obese and overweight people often struggle to cut their daily caloric intake by a necessary 15 percent to 40 percent.
But new research suggests that a twist on alternate-day fasting may make dieting easier to tolerate and boost heart health to boot.
“This diet has been around about 20 years, [...]
Posted on October 24, 2009 by admin
There’s an old saying, show me your friends and I’ll show you who you are. Apparently, this goes for your fitness and weight control habits. The following is quoted in Parade Magazine:
Forget the old saying “You are what you eat.” These days, the theory is that you are, instead, what your friends eat. A whole [...]
Posted on October 14, 2009 by admin
The American Academy of Pediatrics has just issued a report on the role of urban corner stores (often found in suburban or even rural areas too) that provide an easy space for unsupervised children to walk in and gorge themselves on unhealthy snacks.
I’ve included the report below.
Snacking in Children: The Role of Urban Corner Stores
Childhood [...]
Posted on October 2, 2009 by admin
Women who are overweight during pregnancy may be putting their unborn children at risk of congenital heart defects, new government research shows.
Compared with women of normal weight at the beginning of pregnancy, overweight mothers had an 18 percent increased risk of giving birth to a child with certain heart defects, while the most severely obese [...]
Posted on September 24, 2009 by admin
Over-indulgence may be all fat’s fault, according to a new study which reports that fat molecules may over-ride the body’s appetite-suppressing signals.
Scientists from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center report that fat, and palmitic acid in particular, may signal the body’s cells to ignore the appetite-suppressing signals of leptin and insulin. Palmitic acid is [...]
Posted on September 23, 2009 by admin
Many times people decide to begin a workout routine or get in better shape for social lifetsyle reasons. Maybe you just broke up with you ex and you’re back in the bar/dinner/dating scene, or perhaps you have a big reunion coming up and you want to look your best? What often accompanies an increased social [...]
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Posted on September 16, 2009 by admin
Scientists claim to have found a correlation between weight loss maintenance and brain activity when people see food, which could lead to new treatments to help people achieve long-term weight loss.
The researchers, writing in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that those who had successfully maintained weight loss responded differently to pictures of high [...]
