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Aha! Proof that the BMI is flawed

Those of you who are in great shape yet feel betrayed — and baffled — by your BMI, take heart. A study released earlier this month by the American College of Sports Medicine finds that you can be in great shape, yet deemed overweight by your BMI.
Seventy-one high school football players from seven schools were [...]

Small Steps

Sometimes — a lot of the time — it’s the small steps that get us headed in the right direction.
That’s the thinking behind the Small Steps Web site  run by the government (the White House and the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services).
Small Steps is a small but effective, non-overwhelming Web site that appreciates [...]

Childhood obesity: There’s an app for that

Have trouble prying your kids from the computer screen to go for a bike ride or play in the yard?  There’s an app for that. Or there will be if enough enterprising programmers heed the Apps for Healthy Kids competition being sponsored by First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! program.
Apps for Healthy Kids is awarding [...]

The green 5, a “plan” and more

Assorted news from the research world to get your week kick started:
Green exercise? Really pressed for time? Is carving out 60 minutes a day to work out, as recommended by the National Institutes of Health,  beyond the pale of your schedule? Even 30 minutes broken into bite-size 10-minute segments isn’t doable? According to a study [...]

School lunch: Think inside the (lunch)box

Story in today’s The News & Observer about the high cost and other challenges of feeding kids a healthy lunch at school. Healthy food is more expensive — and thus costs the kids/parents more — and because most high schools at least let older kids leave campus over lunch, there’s competition from the outside. I [...]

An unlikely road for Eat This Not That’s Matt Goulding

As he stood next to a stack of books and a table full of killer food Sunday afternoon at the Barnes & Noble across from Cary Towne Center, the icons of Matt Goulding’s life were within 50 yards. Across Maynard Street was Cary High School, where Goulding graduated in 1999; at the far end of [...]

Let Mother Earth move you this weekend

While fitness and health experts would like you to get an hour’s exercise a day, they’ll tell you that, above all, the key thing is to just move. With that in mind, here are a number of Earth Day “just move” events this weekend. (Yes, technically Earth Day isn’t until Thursday. But Thursday doesn’t fall [...]

Exercise and stroke, weight loss, pregnancy and recuperating

The latest fitness news from the research world:

Don’t have a stroke. And if you’re a woman, you’ll be less likely to have one if you walk two hours or more a week at a “brisk” pace. This according to a study published in “Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association,” which found that women exercising [...]

Dropping weights, osteosoccer and a growing Last Supper

The latest fitness news from the research world …
Weight training-related injuries up If you use free weights don’t drop them, especially on yourself. A just-released study conducted by the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital finds that injuries from weight training increased nearly 50 percent between 1990 [...]

The weekend 115

As you go about your weekend, here’s something to think about from page 35 of Barry Popkin’s “The World is Fat: The Fads, Trends, Policies, and Products That Are Fattening the Human Race”:
“The average American Adult consumes 115 calories more per day on Friday, Saturday and Sunday than they consume on weekdays.”
(FYI, there are 115 [...]