Live Fit and Sore

Category: Health/Nutrition

  • Weight Loss Finding: Cash Incentives Fail to Help Some Lose Pounds

    (Aug. 6) — Americans have never been fatter. Here’s one reason it will be hard to turn that around: You can’t even pay people to shed weight. Out this month in the journal Applied Economics Letters is new research by Nicholas Burger and John Lynham. The study’s conclusion is that even when people bet they’ll…

  • The Best and Worst Restaurant Salads

    The Best and Worst Restaurant Salads I love my salad. Every lunch it is Salad Time for me. Here is a good recap of some salads you can find at your local eatery.  I make my own for lunch most days or go to the salad bar so I can control what goes in my…

  • NEEDED: Intensive, comprehensive and ongoing efforts to address obesity

    70 Million Obese Americans: What’s the Solution? Its a national issue that will have lasting repercussions if not seriously looked at and serious action taken. We are a nation of smart people from all over the globe – surely we can put our heads together and come up with a plan to address it. Yes…

  • Creating Healthier Families

    I write a monthly article for my homeowner’s newsletter focused on Family, Fitness, and using Social Media to help families. Here is this month’s article: live fit and sore — The Villager – Aug 2010 page 16 Creating Healthier Families I recently read that only a third of all Americans now meet the government’s minimum…

  • Overtraining Syndrome and Athletes

    Overtraining Syndrome – Overtraining Syndrome and Athletes. I have decided to take a few days off completely this week and maybe the rest of the week to let my body recover. I have not felt right since before the race but post race and the strep bug – my body is wiped out. I did…

  • Post Race Recovery?

    It so beautiful outside.. 80’s and a breeze – I havent run on the trail in a few weeks so I knew it was a perfect day for it. I squeaked out a 5m run but not without stopping a few times.  I am not sure if its the strep or the trail race I…

  • Should Females Train Differently Than Males?

    I had a pretty good workout yesterday. I find that after a good challenging race (ie Rare Xfit Race) that I tend to see an improvement in some areas of my workout — my cardio seemed better yesterday. But have I mentioned it’s super hot ….like Arizona Hot which is not good for the DC…

  • Researcher casts light on ‘obesity paradox’ in heart patients

    Researcher casts light on ‘obesity paradox’ in heart patients. Based on the results, Oreopoulos found that 41 per cent of her study group had been wrongly classified by BMI. Some patients who had high body weight but lower body fat were mistakenly considered obese, and conversely, patients of low weight and high body fat were…

  • An URGE/NEED to exercise

    I am finally starting to feel like myself – Yay for me. Although my face is now breaking out like a teenager. When I get sick like this, my face takes a beating — I am one of those people that tend to get cystic acne at times and man, those suckers hurt (TMI I…

  • Strep is no fun

    My instincts were right. I have strep. Both Nate and I have it and boy it has knocked us both out! All I want to do is sleep – which is where I am headed shortly.. No boot camp for me.  I was also supposed to see Seth Godin this AM with a friend in…