In this day and age of ultra-processed food, eating well to support our health and quality of life takes work. As much as we would like to rely on our healthcare and food industries for reliable information and products, their goals are different from ours. What we lose in convenience when choosing to eat well,…
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Improving Athletic Performance: An Inside Job?
If we believe the marketing surrounding athletic performance enhancing supplements, miracles occur all the time. Only a few dollars worth of their latest magic bullets are what is keeping you from spectacular athletic success! Or so the promotions say. The fact that products of questionable abilities continue to be marketed indicates that many of us…
Fitness After 50
Our physiology provides us with, ahem, interesting changes as we age, so much so that we may begin to despair of building fitness after 50. Whether you have stayed in shape for many years, returned to exercise after a layoff, or are just getting started, achieving fitness in our middling years is possible. As with…
Embracing Hopefulness
As an optimistic person, though tempered by reality, I like to embrace a message of hopefulness when addressing our responses to our world. Not a Pollyanna response of everything is going to be just the way we want, but a positive message that there is power in choosing our path. Feeling empowered means feeling better…
Lessons Learned from Bicycling: Post-Pandemic Edition
In reviewing my earlier bicycling lessons posts, I noted a certain innocence in the writing. COVID has changed a lot of things for me – for all of us, so I thought that the topic might be worth updating. I have shared that bicycling, as well as other forms of athletic endeavor, offers us opportunities…