Refuse To Regain

Once More Into the Fray: Avoiding the Holiday Five

by Barbara Berkeley, MD What's the most common (and least kept) New Year's resolution? You guessed it. If you are hanging around this site, chances are you already know that weight loss is very, very difficult. Nevertheless, we persist in deceiving ourselves on this point. We think that we can always "knock off a few pounds" and that the damage we do over the holidays can be reversed another time. The body has other plans. Once we have gained weight... Read more →

Banning Trans-Fats: A Lesson in Questioning the "Common Wisdom"

by Barbara Berkeley, MD On Thursday, the FDA announced that it will move to ban trans-fats from the food supply. Trans-fats, which as you know by now are fats that are frozen into a new configuration by chemical manipulation, have had a bad reputation for awhile now. Michael Bloomberg moved to ban them from restaurants in New York in 2006 and health experts like Harvard's Walter Willett have been warning that trans-fats are unsafe at any level for at least... Read more →

What's Your 'Fitness Age'? - NYTimes.com

This article appears in the Nov. 3, 2013 issue of The New York Times Magazine. Trying to quantify your aerobic fitness is a daunting task. It usually requires access to an exercise-physiology lab. But researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim have developed a remarkably low-tech means of precisely assessing aerobic fitness and estimating your “fitness age,” or how well your body functions physically, relative to how well it should work, given your age. via well.blogs.nytimes.com... Read more →