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Would you pay your kids to skip dessert?

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Would you? I would. At least I think I might start. Let me explain. We were at Pan­era for din­ner and our 7yo son, after he had eaten his fair share of […]

The scary truth about sugar for runners

runners don't need soda and sugar

Think you can run off the extra sugar you eat and drink? Think again! A new study high­lights sig­nif­i­cant risks asso­ci­ated with excess sugar con­sump­tion — even for healthy people!

When half the dis­tance is good enough.

The hope After we fin­ished a won­der­ful shrimp and risotto din­ner this evening, my wife said, “You should go to the gym tonight.” I was feel­ing rather full, but it was my […]

Zen fit­ness

I was talk­ing to two sin­gle friends at work who were com­par­ing notes with each other on their P90X fit­ness plan. They were going on and on about how much […]

How to enjoy the hol­i­days with­out gain­ing weight

Now that Thanks­giv­ing is done, we have a whole month of hol­i­day par­ties and cel­e­bra­tions in front of us! With all that tempt­ing great food, no won­der the most pop­u­lar New […]