The new year is rapidly approaching, and with it comes the hordes of men and women deciding that 2022 is the year they get into shape. January is a boom for the fitness industry as the resolute begin their fitness journeys. Expect the gyms to be packed with lines for treadmills and weight machines. Then, almost as soon as it …
Over the hill and through the woods to grandmother’s house, we go! If only it were that simple. Nowadays, it’s more like sitting in traffic, standing in line, taking off your shoes at security, and wearing a mask for three hours cramped in an airline seat made for a toddler to go to our sister-in-law’s packed house in suburbia. All …
Do you find yourself down and depressed? Are the short days and colder nights making you feel more tired and sad? The holiday season can be a lonely and challenging time. Breaking out of a psychological rut takes effort, but the reward can be a new you in 2022. According to the American Psychological Association (APA), 1 in 3 men has …
Are you a man over 50 looking for ways to improve your bone health and prevent diseases like osteoporosis? Probably not, but maybe you should consider it. Here are some startling statistics which should put osteoporosis in perspective: One in eight men will experience an osteoporosis-related fracture in their lifetime. Almost 30% of all hip fractures occur in men. …
It’s Thanksgiving Day, and finally, after watching your first football game of the day, it’s time to eat. We waited all day for this moment as the smell of roasting meat and baking pies filled the air all day. Other than a light snack to tide us over and beer during the game, we starved ourselves in preparation for this …
Do you know that the average American consumes 152 pounds of sugar in one year? Everyone wants to be healthy, and most of us try to eat foods we believe will help us stay on track. But, many of these “healthy” foods actually work against us. It doesn’t take a nutritionist to tell us that french fries and cotton candy …
With the last ghosts and goblins clearing the streets, we now enter the seemingly earlier annual descent into the holiday season. If you haven’t yet witnessed your first Christmas commercial or that one neighbor replacing the pumpkins with twinkling lights, it’s coming soon. After spending last year’s holiday season on lockdown, and even though we’re far from out of the …
Happy Halloween! Remember slogging around the neighborhood wearing a plastic mask full of sweat and spit just to score a bag of cheap candy? Sure, a few houses handed out full-size Snickers, Reeses, or Butterfingers, but there was always one house that dropped a pencil or dental floss into your jack-o-lantern bucket. Those people usually ended up on the trick …
The holiday season is fast approaching, and like billionaires with private jets, it’s vacation season for our diets. After mostly skipping last year’s festivities due to the pandemic, this season looks like a breakout year for office parties, family celebrations, and reuniting with old friends. Maintaining healthy eating habits is less complicated when we control the ingredients and preparation at …
Think back to your last class reunion. What’s the first thing you noticed about your former classmates? Time may not have been so friendly to many of the attractive people from twenty or thirty years ago. Were you thinking to yourself, “Do I look that old?” Sure almost everyone in the room is thicker around the middle and thinner on …
