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One alcoholic drink a day lowers risk of heart failure

Posted by Charles Waisbren on July 01, 2015 at 3:15 PM

Sign me up!  It looks like moderate consumption of alcohol might actually be good for you.  The idea that moderate drinking protects against cardiovascular disease makes sense biologically and scientifically. Moderate amounts of alcohol raise levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL, or “good” cholesterol), and higher HDL levels are associated with greater protection against heart disease.

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Weight training vs. treadmill: Which burns more fat?

Posted by Charles Waisbren on June 16, 2015 at 11:30 AM

The bottom line here is you can be thin and blubbery.  Indeed, diet and aerobic exercise is the best pathway to be thin. For sure you lose more weight with a careful diet and aerobic exercise over diet and weight training.   However, for trimming abdominal fat, that ghastly collection of lipids by our belly, weight lifting is more effective in burning the middle away. 

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Sugar vs inactivity: Which causes obesity?

Posted by Charles Waisbren on June 10, 2015 at 11:34 AM

All day in the office, I hear the excuse of “being unable to get to the gym” as the reason for an inadvertent weight gain.  Nonsense!  It is all in the intake.  Biking for 40 minutes burns 230 calories.  That isn’t even a bagel with cream cheese.  When you are gaining weight, you have to reassess your intake.  When you want to drop weight, you have to dramatically reduce your intake.  Indeed, it is just that simple.

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