We have two philosophies about food that stand opposed to each other. One is the enjoyment of food as both a source of individual pleasure and deep cultural significance, the other is of food as a fuel that drives our physical prowess. This is a great opportunity to stop and
There was a great article on the Guardian last week called No Diet, No Detox: How To Relearn the Art of Eating. It’s a wonderful report on how our eating habits have become disordered and the importance of finding a way to return to a more healthy, more psychologically balanced
I saw a meme recently that said “Don’t Blame The Holidays, You Were Fat In August” on it. This got me thinking about overall habits versus special days. My thoughts took me two places. The first is that we definitely should not feel like special occasions such as birthdays, holidays,
NPR (Reality Check: To Burn Off A Soda You’ll Have To Run 50 Minutes) reported last Friday on research that was done at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health that I was thrilled to see! The researchers looked at what would happen if, instead of posting calories at restaurants, we posted
This is part 3 of Fitness and Sustainability. In the last part of this series we looked at how growth affects the way we think about training and what we hope to accomplish in the gym. The concept of input was discussed and the way in which the level of