Healthy Tips (from Sal's Healthy Tip of the Week Newsletter)

April 21, 2009 -- Do you know How Old I Am?

This is not a quiz for you to guess my age. Instead, it’s simply a reiteration of what I’ve heard from a number of people throughout my life, and which I continue to hear a bit too often. I first heard it from my dad when I was in my early teens, and he in his early 40s. Whenever I asked for him to join me on a bike ride, to go roller-skating or to simply play catch with a ball or Frisbee, he’d answer with the question, “Do you know how old I am?”

Without considering the number that represented his chronological age, such a question clearly indicated that he simply was too old – even when he was merely in his 40s. Now that he’s 81, his words have become his reality...
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April 14, 2009 -- Real Living (Part 1 of 3)

March 24, 2009 -- Real Living (Part 1 of 3)

March 17, 2009 -- Real Living (Part 1 of 3)

March 10, 2009 -- Real Living (Part 1 of 3)

This past weekend, my wife, Ryoko, and I spent two days in Atlantic City. We love walking on the boardwalk and find the casinos to be entertaining. With the excitement of the sights and the sounds of the bright lights and the people laughing and cheering – and for our occasional wins in the penny arcades – we make AC our annual or semi-annual mini-escape from our normal routine.
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February 17, 2009 -- A Few Words about Fad Diets
(Excerpted from my book, Stop Aging, Start Training)

There are three words regarding fad diets that I want you to remember: they don’t work! They may help you to lose weight, and perhaps quickly. But there are two problems with such approaches: 1.) the results are temporary; and 2.) the weight lost through such methods is mostly the wrong type of weight: water, muscle tissue and bone density.

There is no faster, healthier way to lose weight and firm up than through basic, sensible eating (coupled with regular, vigorous physical activity and exercise).

To prevent yourself from succumbing to even the most popular of fad diets, remember three things:
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February 10, 2009 -- The Importance of Aerobics
(Excerpted from my book, Stop Aging, Start Training)

On a scale of one to ten, aerobic exercise rates about a forty-seven! There are few absolutes in this life, but in this case (as with strength training), medical science backs me up: few things are as good for you, and in so many different ways, as aerobic exercise.
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January 20, 2009 -- True Measure of Success
(Excerpted from my book, Stop Aging, Start Training)

One of the biggest mistakes in the world of health is determining one’s success – or lack of it – by simply observing total weight, as measured by the scale. The scale does not distinguish between fat weight and lean weight (which includes the weight of muscles, bones, organs, and water). Therefore, the scale, by itself, does virtually nothing in determining success.
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January 13, 2009 -- Health Tip: Be Excuse-Free!

Welcome to the first Health Tip of the Week newsletter supplement. Before I can even begin sharing tips on exercise or nutrition, there is one essential first step – confronting and eliminating excuses.

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