Cholesterol gets a bad rap most of the time. That fatty substance circulating around in our blood vessels has been associated with heart disease for many years. Rightly so. Usually found at the scene of damaged blood vessels in significant amounts, cholesterol is a known player but are we reading the situation correctly? What We…
If you have been exercising for the past few years, you likely know how fitness technology has expanded its presence and influence in our workouts. From wearable technology that can track our number of steps, to GPS that can map and track our movements on the globe, tech has really taken hold. While I too…
No matter which side of the electronic cigarette debate you are on, I don’t think we expected to see vaping and deaths together in the same sentence. However, that is just what happened in the headlines in recent weeks. As the media has rushed to tout the deadliness of vaping with the same enthusiasm it…
Do your resolutions about exercise come and go? It happens to the best of us. Reasons for this generally start like “I couldn’t because…” and go off to sound like something that is convincing – to ourselves anyway. What a lot of the dilemma boils down to is that you’ve got to like what you…
Welcome to middle age. No amount of anti-aging remedies or wishful thinking will make my body age less. Slower perhaps but not less. I’m stuck with muscles that are not quite as strong as they once were. I have a nervous system that doesn’t fire quite as quickly. And there is a whole host of other things that my body just doesn’t do quite as well now as before.