In spite of the challenges presented by grimy gyms and mixed up members, health and fitness is the cornerstone of happiness and wellbeing. Find motivation here to keep going with your exercise routine and plan.
It’s never a good thing in Las Vegas when hotel security starts asking you questions. By way of background, you need to know that Las Vegas is the brightest city on Earth as seen from space at night. Then there’s the reality on the ground after dark. The sensory overload of The Strip cripples your…
One major controversy in exercise is whether you’re better off working out in a fasted state. When I went to the gym fasted for the first time, I was shocked how much better I felt: quicker, lighter, stronger. Since I now exercise at 5 am, I also don’t have a choice — it’s not like…
I never watch TV, but I occasionally get a glimpse of mainstream culture from the boob tube at the gym. Yesterday I saw a commercial about a drug for diabetes. The actor portraying a diabetic spoke of his disease as if it was the result of random misfortune — despite diabetes being the most preventable…
Across academic fields (social sciences, psychology, natural sciences, medicine) research results have become impossible to reproduce. This is the “replication crisis,” which runs the gamut from honest differences in interpreting statistics to straight up misconduct. The most glaring problems exist in biomedical research. In oncology, for example, scientists evaluating the state of affairs were able…
My two older kids recently finished summer jobs as camp counselors. They worked in separate states but remarked on the same situation: a significant number of kids around age eight are behaving strangely. My kids felt that 2 in every 10 of their campers could be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. I have observed the…