Obesity and our Genes

Today a new study came out linking obesity to our genes http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/644136.html. It’s interesting findings and may contribute to the explosion of obesity we are seeing in the US and now world wide. But it’s hard...

Functional Fitness Starring Suzanne Andrewss on PBS

I hope you all will listen to my interview with Suzanne Andrews about her new PBS show. You can hear it or download it at http://webtalkradio.net/shows/your-health-rocks/. One of the things that keeps many people from exercising is that they are already so overweight...

Junk Food

This is a fun music video called Junk Food Song that explains why it is bad for you. The sugar and trans fats are bad for our hearts and arteries, but people eat them because they are less expensive, easy to get and full of salt and/or sugar that we’ve gotten...

New Dietary Guidelines are out

The new dietary guidelines are out and the verdict is in: the USDA offers US citizens its food intake advice while at the same time trying to not offend its other responsibility – namely the ranchers of America. In other words, can the USDA want us to lose...