Some people get bariatric surgery, others buy “fill you up” food supplements. They’re tricking the digestive system to create a feeling of fullness, ultimately reducing the total number of calories consumed. But Dr. Barbara Rolls, a professor of nutrition who directs Pennsylvania State University’s Laboratory for the Study of Human Ingestive Behavior, devised something easier, probably smarter and which introduces nutrients that are very beneficial. Her approach is Volumetrics, which in essence involves creating meals filled with fiber and water – brothy soups and vegetables, for example. I write about it in one of my dozens of articles on HairLoss.com
The home gym is an appealing concept: some people aren’t interested in the social scene of a health club, and others may just like the convenience of exercise “on demand” where they eat and sleep. For the initiated, it’s possible to exercise with no equipment at all. For others, spending up to (but no more than) $150 can enable a versatile, comprehensive exercise facility – even if it’s in your living room (note: most equipment can tuck away in a closet). This article shows you how to do it.
Eating right when times are tough is possible, even if money is tight. I wrote this article with passion, because it’s amazing how many healthy foods – beans, cruciferous vegetables, onions and eggs – happen to be very affordable if you know what you’re doing.
Even if you have hair loss, it makes sense you eat the foods that will promote what hair you have left. It just so happens that smart nutrition for hair health is generally smart nutrition for the rest of you. Isn’t it great how that works? Read my article about this at HairLoss.com.
Chronic tendonitis in forearms and wrists, tibia (shin), plantar (foot arch) and elsewhere is often a sign of development imbalance. Find that balance and get back into form by understanding how it works and following some simple tricks of exercise via this article I wrote for HairLoss.com.
Writing for a fitness website – in this case, RealJock.com – means thinking beyond the “typical” American lifestyle. This site is for gay guys who are already into being fit, so telling them just to eat breakfast can come come across as pedantic. Many may eat a very balanced diet, but others might be guilty of consuming the same protein powder-fruit smoothie every morning. This article covers the overall importance of the meal, and provides ways to mix it up from day to day. It encourages readers to achieve balance, variety and moderation, challenging an extreme fitness mindset that needs to be reminded how fruits, grains, seeds, nuts and spices are part of what makes for a healthy – and interesting – breakfast. As a nutrition writer, I had to test several of these serving suggestions at home and improved my own habits in the process.
My assignments with HairLoss.com include addressing health and fitness for women who are experiencing alopecia. It’s no small audience: two in seven women over the age of 50 have some degree of alopecia. Is it any surprise that exercise and a balanced diet helps mitigate the effects of the change of life? Learn more about it here.
In development since January 2009, HairLoss.com launched last week with about a dozen of the articles I’ve written for this site. I am the health, fitness and nutrition section writer, with five articles each month on ways to proactively approach wellbeing; each article touches on the relationship between healthy living and alopecia, which includes male pattern baldness as well as other conditions of hair loss in men and women. My profile page is here, and the article currently drawing the most traffic is on yoga for men, a topic near and dear to my lower back.