Like fine wine, aging done right is the key.
Over the weekend I did a podcast for Patrick Ward and Keat’s Snidemands Reality Based Fitness site and one of the topics came up had to do with flexible dieting and the full diet break. This is something that I wrote about in both A Guide to Flexible Dieting and …
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When does optimism become denial? Happily, it’s not up to Geezer to say, but the New York Times reports that most people over the age of 50 say they feel ten years younger than their actual age. And that’s just…
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The Raw Diet
Boy, there some serious claims out there about the health benefits of an all-raw diet. The proponents of a raw diet basically state that cooking denatures or destroys essential enzymes in the food, that all food has a kind of “life force” that is killed off by cooking. Supposedly, the enzymes [...]
Move over Pedialyte. Yes. It seems to be true. Pickle juice is the new Pedialyte, which was the new Gatorade, not to mention the brief reign of G2. The Boston Globe reports on the wondrous restorative powers of pickle juice,…
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It is amazing the aftershocks that go on after a famous person dies. I'm sure that a lot of it is because the death of a famous person shoves the reality of our own mortality right in our faces. It reminds us that death is a given and nobody can avoid it regardless of their station in life.
Moreover, [...]
Geezer can recall a particular high school coach’s requirements that his athletes play through pain. He can also remember a teammate who played basketball for two weeks on a broken leg. Oops. Coach’s bad.How to tell the good pain from…
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On Tuesday, I wrote what was apparently a surprising article for this site (judging by some comments) but in that I’m going to at least try to tie it into training, I’m not sure why.
In Becoming an Expert – Deliberate Practice Part 1, I introduced some concepts related to the …
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The good news is that three quarters (76 percent) of all women believe that having a healthy sex life means enjoying sex at least once a week. The bad news is that only half (54 percent) of all women have…
Original post by Art Jahnke
For reasons that I don't fully understand, most women (to one extent or another) feel compelled to focus on their perceived physical imperfections. Put a few women in a room and invariably the conversation will turn to them pointing out (to all the other women) everything that is "wrong" with their body.
Sometimes it actually turns [...]
Weight loss may be 80%+ nutrition (what you eat) and 20% staying active (exercise), but it is also certainly 110% mental. I made a statement a couple articles back about it is more dangerous for someone to diet and fall “off the wagon” than to never have dieted at all. This comes from the emotional [...]
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