FabFit50s

To feel better now? Today? Or to try to lay the groundwork for a healthy future? In recent years, I’ve been touting the benefits of the latter. Maybe because I spend a lot of time thinking about the years ahead. And, it doesn’t hurt that I’m a health journalist. So I am constantly reading and [...]

  After my last post, where I admitted falling while doing box jumps onto a weight bench, a friend called me to say, in essence, “What the heck are you doing jumping up on a bench, anyway?” Fair question. It’s not like I’m working on my basketball skills. I don’t really need a better vertical [...]

Every day, I get a lot of health newsletters that inform me about recent research. And it’s always interesting when I see how two totally different studies can relate to each other. One study published in the online edition of the American Journal of Public Health, investigated the responses of 2,500 Americans who took part [...]

At a recent meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), data was presented that demonstrates postmenopausal women who gain a significant amount of weight have an increased risk for endometrial cancer. How significant? Well, a gain of 61 pounds can increase your risk for the cancer fourfold, the researchers found. Now, some of these [...]

  I just got my monthly e-mail from my credit monitoring agency. I’m in the clear, they say. No new accounts opened in my name. No new inquiries posted to my credit report. No public records or potentially negative items. I breathe a sigh of relief each month when I read this. I enrolled in [...]

  Quick! You’re most likely to see a rotator cuff injury in: a. A baseball pitcher b. A tennis player c. A bodybuilder d. A woman over age 40 You guessed it. A woman over age 40 is more likely to develop a rotator cuff injury than any of these athletes! The rotator what? The [...]

 I was in the gym not long ago and saw, in the locker room, a young woman with a girdle on. Or, maybe it was a “body shaper.” I didn’t want to stare, but it’s been a while since I’ve seen one of these things in use. She wasn’t obese, just a bit overweight. Still, what [...]

I belong to a large commercial gym a few miles from my home. It’s convenient and has great equipment. I don’t have too many complaints, really. My big one is this… I would LOVE to see more women my age working out. Not up on the cardio deck, but down in the free weights area. [...]