
Enter Esther Blum, your new best girlfriend or your ‘nutritional fairy godmother’ as she describes herself. She is hip, stylish, likable, a bit of a party girl and she just happens to have a whole lot more credentials than cocktails she serves up, and that’s [...]

One of my favorite things is to hear about the surprise benefits people discover after becoming more physically active. I have collected them from my clients over the years and share some of them [...]

Even if your baby is in college, you may still need to adapt your fitness program to your postpartum body.
Carrying, giving birth to and raising a baby can cause muscle imbalances that can persist decades after baby is born, if not corrected. Here are some issues that may be linked to your baby rearing days and what you can do about [...]

3 things Starbucks can teach us about reaching our fitness [...]

Do you really need a gym membership, fancy running shoes and a personal trainer to stay healthy, strong and to lead a robust life? My great grandfather Edward Feuz Sr. (1859-1944) would likely say [...]

This is the question CBC news Canada asked Canadians recently in response to new research that shows that Canadian children are becoming alarmingly overweight and are presenting with obesity associated lifestyle diseases.
My answer to this question is no, childhood obesity is not child abuse, yet. But it will be very soon. [...]

In celebration of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver B.C., Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has loaned Leonardo DaVinci’s Anatomical Manuscript A to the Vancouver Art Gallery for showing in its entirety for the first time ever.
The Anatomical Manuscript A is a collection of anatomical drawings and study notes made by DaVinci in 1510. DaVinci dissected as many as 30 cadavers (unclaimed bodies from a charitable hospital) as part of his study for a treatise on the human body, a work that never came to [...]

The Thrive Diet is a philosophy about nourishing the body for health and for high level athletic performance with a plant only based diet. A large amount of the discussion hinges on stress, nutritional and exercise stress in particular and how food can be used most efficiently to prevent and recover from various [...]
The world’s largest celebration of sport is about to take place in my back yard, no really, my backyard. Here is my first post covering the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver British Columbia Canada as seen by a resident living in the heart of the Olympic [...]

The Omnivore’s Dilemma (Pengiun 2006) by Michael Pollan was rated as one of the top 10 books of the year by both the New York Times and the Washington Post. There is no doubt that this is quality literature, but is this a book to be valuable and enjoyed by health and fitness seekers? That was my question reading it. Who would have thought that discussion of corn, grass, hunting, or foraging for wild mushrooms could be such a page [...]