A new study finds that when people have monthly personal contact with a weight-loss professional, they’re able to keep off more weight.
The study also found that people using an interactive Website were more likely to maintain their weight loss than people who didn’t.
“Two and a half years after weight loss, the personal contact group had [...]
A poll was taken for the latest issue of Money Magazine (February 2009). The statistics might interest you.
When people were asked the question of what they were willing and unwilling to give up in this down economy, 1,383 respondents gave some interesting answers. I have also agreed or disagreed and left a small comment.
Not [...]
Exercise may help improve fatigue caused by cancer and its treatments, new research says.
“A lot of time, the medical response to patients is that they should expect to be fatigued, that it is a normal side effect. If patients are told that fatigue is just a side effect and to accept it, what they [...]
IHRSA (International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association) offers these tips on how to get the most out of your health club membership in 2009:
(1) Make sure you haven’t overlooked any of the amenities your club offers. Ask for a “refresher” introductory tour to make sure you haven’t forgotten about any of the special perks your [...]
People who consistently engage in high levels of exercise over the long haul are the most successful at losing weight and keeping it off, a new study shows. Among a group of overweight men and women participating in an 18-month weight loss program, those who were still getting 75 minutes of exercise daily a year [...]
Exercise stimulates the growth of new brain cells, a new study on rats finds. The new cells could be the key to why working out relieves depression.
Previous research showed physical exercise can have antidepressant effects, but until now scientists didn’t fully understand how it worked.
Astrid Bjornebekk of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and her colleagues [...]
There are some incredible claims out there about how valuable muscle pounds are to you. After all, we’ve been claiming for years that muscle “burns calories around the clock just to maintain itself, even while you are asleep.”
The New York Times recently published an article by Adam Zickerman, author of Power of 10: The Once-a-Week [...]
“Give a man a fish and he eats for a day,
Teach him to fish and he eats for a lifetime.”
My wife has a very close friend, Jill, who came from out of state to go though the Boot program. Five weeks into the program, and knowing that we only recently began deploying custom meals [...]
Dear members,
Last week, we finally launched our blog. There’s a blog for me, one
for Brad, one for Joel, and one for John. When I learned it was waiting
for a submission, I contemplated an opening post. I have been talking
to friends and thinking about how important it is to continue to
support each other in this difficult [...]
What if there were a tool that knew everything about the latest advances in exercise science AND knows who I am genetically?
When I say, “Who I am genetically” I mean,
* the nature of your unique structure,
* how susceptible I am to weight-gain and weight loss,
* what exercises work best for me from a results point [...]
