Should we or shouldn’t we…drink diet sodas?  Experience Life Magazine weighs in. My bottom-line thoughts: If we’re using them to mask hunger, we need to be ingesting calories instead. Things like diet soda may drive hunger underground for a while, but hunger always wins. Dara Chadwick, author of You’d…

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you probably know that true health is more than just eating fruits, veggies whole grains and exercising. Being healthy also involves nurturing your relationships, having a career that you love and having a spiritual practice. You might have loving relationships,…

Even if you are an exercise nut that doesn’t guarantee that you’ll be gung -ho about working out all the time. After all, it’s easy to get pretty creative with excuses when you get injured or feel bored. Exercise may take a back seat when life becomes hectic, you’re…

You may have read the latest reports that the fat-burning benefits of exercise are not what we previously thought (or hoped for). The old thinking was that your metabolism stays at an active fat-burning stage for up to 24 hours after working out. (I always liked the idea that…

Back in Skinny Jeans reminds us that there are more important things in life than being “bikini ready” for summer. Fred Cicetti, aka “The Healthy Geezer” wonders: Is it Safe to Exercise in Your 70s ? The short answer is yes! Alternative Health Journal offers five great reasons not…

Exercise makes women around the time of menopause feel better, even when they don’t lose weight and even when they devote less time to it than is generally recommended. That’s what researchers concluded at the end of a six-month  controlled study that measured the effect of 50 percent, 100…

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Abdominal pain occurs for many reasons.  1 in 5 American adults have irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).  Yet many people are unco mfortable talking about it because their symptoms may be too embarrassing. No one knows exac tly what causes irritable bowel syndrome.  The walls of the intestines are lined…