by JerraldHayes | Apr 30, 2018 | Diet
Debunking What the Health, the buzzy new documentary that wants you to be vegan There’s a sensational documentary out on Netflix that seems to have a lot of people talking about going vegan. In the spirit of so many food documentaries and diet books that have...
by JerraldHayes | Sep 18, 2017 | Exercise, Fitness, Injury
A comprehensive guide to the new science of treating lower back pain Cathryn Jakobson Ramin’s back pain started when she was 16, on the day she flew off her horse and landed on her right hip. For the next four decades, Ramin says her back pain was like a small...
by JerraldHayes | Aug 7, 2017 | Diet
We’ve long blamed carbs for making us fat. What if that’s wrong? It’s one of the most hotly contested areas of dieting: How much do carbohydrates matter when it comes to weight loss? If you ask a number of celebrities and authors of diet books,...
by JerraldHayes | Jul 15, 2017 | Diet, Exercise
Why you shouldn’t exercise to lose weight, explained with 60+ studies When anthropologist Herman Pontzer set off from Hunter College in New York to Tanzania to study one of the few remaining hunter-gatherer tribes on the planet, he expected to find a group of...
by JerraldHayes | Feb 14, 2017 | Exercise, Injuries
Doctors finally admit drugs can’t fix most cases of back pain America’s doctors have finally admitted it: Their pharmaceutical tools to treat one of patients’ most common ailments don’t work. Lower back pain is one of the most frequent reasons...