Refuse To Regain

Less Food, More Quality

by Barbara Berkeley, MD I am always hesitant to voice my true opinion on how much we need to be eating in order to stay healthy. My trepidation revolves around the fear that I will be perceived as subourning anorexia. Let's get that out of the way immediately: I am not. But what I do find is that a healthy, efficient body needs far less food in order to run than is commonly supposed. When the conversation turns to eliminating... Read more →

I Can’t Want To. I Can’t Like That.

By Lynn Haraldson-Bering “Hello, it’s me. I’ve thought about us for a long, long time.” Todd Rundgren It’s been two months since my last RTR post, and believe me, I’ve missed it very much. While I’ve still been writing on Lynn’s Weigh, I’ve also been dealing with some physical issues that are leading me in a new direction on the maintenance road. Uncharted territory, actually. My thanks to Barbara for picking up my slack and for writing so many thought-provoking... Read more →

Who's Supporting Wellness?

By Barbara Berkeley, MD A couple of posts back, I mentioned that I wanted to comment on some other things that were found in the NY Times Magazine of April 18th; the one devoted to Wellness. One of the first pages in the magazine features an interview with Jane Fonda, still direct and acerbic, but...for good or ill...far less the counter-culture figure she once was. Fonda has been working on what seems to be a terrific project, World Fitness Day,... Read more →

Sugar. Cholesterol. JAMA. Finally.

By Barbara Berkeley, MDScientists are supposed to be curious. Weren’t they once the little boys and girls who peppered their parents with a zillion questions about how the world worked? Didn’t they once want to solve the riddles of the universe? But then the scientists grew up and like all the rest of us, they became less open minded. Perhaps they were influenced by powerful figures. Or perhaps they became so immersed in their own hypotheses that they stop looking... Read more →

Exercise and Weight Loss: The Conversation Goes On

By Barbara Berkeley For native New Yorkers there is a certain imperative that comes along with the weekend: that would be reading the Sunday “New York Times.” When Don and I moved to Cleveland in 1987, my first question was whether I could get the “Times” delivered. Fool that I was, it seemed to me at the time that I was relocating to a vast wasteland where contact with civilization (read Manhattan) was not guaranteed. Although we’ve become inveterate Clevelanders... Read more →

More Jack. Turns out, he was the original Primarian. Watch this and look at the amount of carbs he suggests in a day. BTW, You Tube has a slew of wonderful LaLanne videos. He's unique and still worth watching!! Read more →

I found this ancient video of Jack LaLanne (now 95) on Michael Eades' blog. It's too good not to share. Some wisdoms are timeless. Read more →

The Talented Mr. Warburg

By Dr. Barbara Berkeley I have this thing. Maybe it’s genetic, I don’t know. I sometimes become intensely interested in certain things, foods, people, microcosms. I can eat the same meals, order the same kind of coffee, read the same book, watch the same movie a zillion times. It’s not so much that I get stuck in a loop as that I enjoy things more with repetition. When I was about 10 years old, this intense focus landed on an... Read more →

Hello to all! I'll have a new post up shortly, but in the meantime, I hope many of you will join me on Facebook at Refuse to Regain: Barbara's World. In that format, I can keep you updated daily with shorter thoughts and links to interesting info.. And it's easier to communicate back and forth if you'd like. See you there? Read more →

Cleveland’s "Plain Dealer" Weighs in on Obesity Discrimination

By Barbara Berkeley Last Sunday, Cleveland’s major newspaper, The Plain Dealer, announced the roll out of a year-long series on obesity. I applaud The Plain Dealer for this enormous effort. Like most urban American areas, Cleveland has a significant obesity problem, but excess body size is not confined to the cities alone. The state of Ohio is one of the ten most obese states in the nation. I have long believed that our global obesity problem won’t be solved until... Read more →