FabFit50s

Today I am 55. It might otherwise be traumatic, except I think how all my childhood friends are also 55, or in that territory, and I don’t feel so bad. Hehe. I also see that I now qualify for the “senior” meals at a restaurant I might be visiting next week near Spring Lake, NJ. Ah, [...]

First, forget those formulas you run into every once in a while to calculate your resting metabolic rate (RMR). I, for one, admit to having whipped out my calculator from time to time on spotting one of those in a magazine. It’s cumbersome. You multiply your height in centimeters by a specific number, then multiply [...]

It’s not the whole point of eating right and exercising. Saturday night, I went to an Italian restaurant for dinner. About half the tables were taken when we arrived. I looked around, as I always do. Most, if not all, of the women there were overweight. Moms with young kids. And women I’d categorize as “middle [...]

…if you want to enjoy optimum health, that is.  KEEP YOUR MUSCLE! After age 35, we lose 5% of our muscle mass every 10 years, according to Dr. Michael Roizen, Chief Wellness Officer at the Cleveland Clinic. That’s IF we don’t exercise the right way to preserve muscle tissue. If you don’t exercise, and you [...]

 How vigorously do you exercise? Are you one of those people who goes into the gym and spends more time looking around than working out hard? If so, you’ll want to step it up a bit! Especially if you are dealing with chronic psychological stress. Not sure that you are? Are you unemployed, financially stressed, [...]

 It’s amazing news! A study reported in the November issue of the Archives of Neurology shows that stronger muscles are associated with a lower risk of mild cognitive impairment. And that could mean you’re less likely to develop Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). Just another HUGE reason why you need to do some strength training as you age! [...]

   That’s right, you CAN… firm your upper arms lose the back fat resdiscover your waist downsize your fanny and trim your hips and thighs How? You need to… 1.  WORK OUT as if you’re a “hardgainer.” That’s a term bodybuilders and serious weight trainers use to describe people who can’t build muscle very easily. The [...]

Eating more omega-3 rich fish may slow down the shortening of your telomeres–which is associated with the rate at which you’re aging. That’s according to researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, and other hospitals, who studied 608 patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). The study, reported recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association , [...]