Diet and Carbs

You know how important it is to get proper nutrients in your diet.  But there’s a huge temptation these days to use low carbohydrate diets as a way to help control weight. Needless to say, this is an alarming trend according to both nutritionists and sports doctors.  The reason for the alarm is that low-carb [...]

Fitness As You Want It

Without oversimplifying too much, I view the question of maintaining one’s body weight as matter pretty much of arithmetic.  Leaving aside the question of nutrition (a topic I’ll take up in a future post), if you eat more calories in a day than you burn in a day, you’ll gain weight.  If you eat fewer [...]