Big business can teach us a lot about things other than behaving badly and being mega-rich. — If you enjoy binging a good series from time to time, then I assume you’ve seen all the available episodes of Showtime’s ‘Billions’ and HBO’s ‘Succession.’ At first, I thought, “Ho-hum, shows about horrible rich people…yawn.” But, like millions of other viewers, I got swept up in the story lines…

Exercise is often ineffective for weight loss because we unwittingly compensate for those extra calories burned. Here’s how to avoid that. — In my last article, Should You Exercise for Weight Loss, I explained why exercise should be part of every healthy transformation, despite the fact that it’s not the most effective way to lose weight. Typically, unless you also make changes to your diet, the scale either won’t budge, or it…

Exercise has loads of health benefits. Weight loss typically hasn’t been one of them, but maybe that’s because we’ve been doing it wrong. — Every few months or so, exercise gets thrown under the bus by lifestyle writers using the latest health research as clickbait. The titles go something like this: From Vox: “The science is in: exercise won’t help you lose much weight” From Huffpost: “Exercise Vs. Diet: The Truth About Weight Loss”

Getting to a healthy weight doesn’t have to be miserable. — In my last post, I encouraged readers to change just one thing about their diet: the way they think about food. I asked them to pause whenever a dietary choice presented itself and ask, “Will eating (or drinking) this do something for my body, or to my body?” I often…

What we eat and drink have an outsized affect on our weight and our health. Here’s how to capitalize on that. — For many Americans, eating is combat. We “battle” the bulge, “fight off” cravings, and all too often “lose the war” against sugar, carbs or fat. We demonize our favorite foods, using labels like “bad” or “forbidden” or “sinful.” With good reason. The most recent data from the National Institutes of…

To virtually every problem. — Is there anything better than a good night’s sleep? No, actually, there isn’t. We’ve instinctively known this forever. It’s why we say things like, “I’m going to sleep on it,” when there’s an important decision to make, and, “Everything looks better after a good night’s sleep.” Our bodies certainly know…

A small-steps guide to real transformation. Loads and loads of people have let their health slide. Over the past two years, thanks to the pandemic, for sure. But even before that, the trend was sloping hard toward poor health for over a hundred million Americans. While the diet and health…

How a simple, tangible tool revived my flagging fitness regimen. I write things down. Thoughts, feelings, goals and ambitions in a journal; ideas in a file titled, “Ideas”; to-do lists on my phone or on scraps of paper; notes on gardening and kitchen projects in a homesteading notebook. From time…

There are some benefits to getting older. These are just a few. I’m not going to lie, there are a bunch of crappy things about turning 50. …