Fitness & weight

My latest elliptical mix

August 24, 2008

  Ten Dead Dogs    4:06    Wild Sweet Orange    The Thief & the Heartbreaker    4:39    Alberta Cross    Runnin’ Down a Dream    4:23    Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers   Viva la Vida    4:01    Coldplay    Young Americans    3:17    David Bowie    Someday Baby    4:56    Bob Dylan    Jigsaw Falling Into Place    4:09    Radiohead    Runaround Sue    2:52    Dion    Every Little Thing She [...]

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Fixing health care – payment redux

February 28, 2008

Thanks to all the comments on my previous post.  I believe that I did an incomplete job in describing my concerns. Our current payment system has incentives for the wrong behavior.  If all lawyers received $200 for a will (fixed price, regardless of complexity), we would see shoddy, cookie cutter wills and lawyers who avoid [...]

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The Thanksgiving challenge – part deux

November 22, 2007

Last year I challenged the readers to make a Thanksgiving exercise and eating resolution.  This is the most dangerous period of the year for weight gain.  So once again I challenge you to work out regularly and eat smart until the New Year. I currently favor the elliptical machine.  I listen to music, picking songs [...]

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What is the best weight?

November 12, 2007

The definitions of underweight, desirable, overweight and obese are somewhat arbitrary. We generally use BMI to classify patients. “Experts” have told us that ideal weight (BMI 21-25) would decrease mortality. Maybe they are wrong -Causes of Death Are Linked to a Person’s Weight Linking, for the first time, causes of death to specific weights, they [...]

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The Thanksgiving Exercise resolution challenge

November 25, 2006

Many Americans make exercise and weight loss resolutions for the New Year. Many of these resolvers have gained significant weight during the “holiday season”. Thursday morning I made a personal resolution to exercise at least 5 days each week from Thanksgiving until New Year’s Day. My goal is to lose a bit of weight (as [...]

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On obesity and overweight – observations from Paris

May 8, 2006

I am currently in Paris, then going to Lausanne to give a 3 talks at the Swiss Society of Internal Medicine on Thursday. Over the past 2 days, I have seen few obese and overweight Parisians. I suspect that despite the high calorie food, Parisians walk enough to maintain desirable weight. So I searched on [...]

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Keep exercising

March 6, 2006

Aging: Too Old to Benefit From Exercise? Pish! People are never too old to gain health benefits from exercise, a new study suggests. Researchers divided a group of 64 volunteers with an average age of 84 into three groups. The first group exercised by walking, the second did resistance training, and a control group did [...]

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Losing weight and eating yogurt

January 30, 2006

Due to too much travelling, too many restaurant dinners, and a variety of other personal defects, I decided a few weeks ago that I needed to lose several pounds. Fortunately, I do lose weight quickly, and have made great progress over the past 3 weeks. My weight loss diet is one that I stumbled upon [...]

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Music and exercise

June 29, 2005

Powered by music Athletes work hard to reach a state of internal calm, harnessing their mind power to stay intense, but not frantic. Music helps them get into that zone, offering flow, control, focus. It helps them manage the pain of stressing their bodies to levels undreamed of by most three-times-a-week joggers. And it becomes [...]

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Maybe we should have a small spare tire

April 20, 2005

Some Extra Heft May Be Helpful, New Study Says Stop the presses, we have another study which challenges common knowledge! This very carefully done study finds that overweight (defined as BMI 25-30) patients have lower mortality than either “normal” weight or “obese” patients. The researchers – statisticians and epidemiologists from the National Cancer Institute and [...]

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