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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Researchers find another benefit to exercise

The original discovery in 2009 was so significant that the researchers all became Nobel Laureates. What they determined was the tiny pieces of DNA at the ends of chromosomes called telomeres had a job similar to aglets, the plastic or metal sheaths at the ends of a shoelace.

In the same way aglets keep laces from fraying as they are pushed through a shoe's eyelets, telomeres keep the active ends of chromosomes from being exposed.

Friday, July 16, 2010

Numerical look at summer sporting events

From local baseball playoffs, to the World Cup, to "The Decision," the first half of summer has been filled with noteworthy sporting events.

I thought I would take a numerical look at some of the big events that have happened so far and some that are on the horizon.

1 - Goals Spain scored in each of its four knockout round victories on its way to the World Cup championships. Spain beat Portugal, Paraguay, Germany and the Netherlands all by identical 1-0 scores. Obviously, defense does win championships.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

A serious side effect to your child using a cell phone

When I see a lifestyle pattern emerging with the potential to induce a health disaster, I am duty bound to write about it.

Even if it makes me look like a Luddite and to some degree contradicts recent research.

Friday, July 2, 2010

The five best teams from 2009-10

The TIMES NEWS area definitely had its share of teams that went on to accomplish a lot in 2009-10. Some teams accomplished things that their program had never done before, while others continued to build upon the success they have experienced over the last few years.

With that, I would like to rank the area's five best teams from the past season. My rankings reflect the team relative to their sport and competition. It is impossible to compare a girls' team and their accomplishments to a guys' team, so it is only fair to judge them based on their peers.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

No such thing as a slow metabolism

I'd like to think that each week this column is chocked full of good advice and an equal measure of something else.

Hope.

And because of this, I hope that you come to see your health-and-fitness failings as I see mine: as patterns or habits that can almost always be altered by a combination of information, common sense, and resourcefulness.

Friday, June 25, 2010

Remembering a Bulldog of the past

The year was 1981.

The Northern Lehigh Bulldogs were coming off a 8-3 season and with 19 seniors returning all eyes in Slatington were pointed in the direction of a Centennial League football championship.

Head coach Dick Snell was beginning his 11th year and was welcoming back his most mature club since he took over for George Yaniger back in the early 1970's.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Proof that nutrient partitioning works

There is no Nutrient Partitioning lobby, so I can't be in their back pocket. It's just that when a weekly health-and-fitness columnist argues for readers to construct their diet around those principles way three times in four weeks that's the conclusion you could reach.

But I had no intention of writing about nutrient partitioning again today. Honestly.

The Dukan Diet made me do it.

Friday, June 18, 2010

Baseball & patriotism

By MIKE FEIFEL

mfeifel@tnonline.com

With Memorial Day as the gateway to summer, and Flag Day celebrated earlier this week, I found myself looking at how athletes, in particular baseball players, have served our country.

Some of you may recall a 2004 tragedy that claimed the life of Pat Tillman. The NFL safety made a selfless act after 9/11 to turn down the multi-million dollar contract and the cushy life to train as an Army Ranger.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Create exercise success by learning from failure

Marcus Aurelius, The Roman emperor better known as a Stoic philosopher, is credited with saying, "It is a wise man that learns one thing from another."

Now that doesn't mean only wise men have the ability to assess one situation and apply it elsewhere. It means you become wise at least momentarily anytime you recognize the similarities in things and act accordingly.

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Nutrient partitioning: An easy way to eat well

Generally, researchers are matter-of-fact about results, content to simply present what they have found. So when the principal investigator of a health-related matter says that the logical end result of what she has researched is "like the sky is falling," you know that something serious is wrong.

It's something I warned you about years ago: that children are now developing diseases previously found only in adults.

The best-known example is type 2 diabetes. Only two generations ago, it was officially called adult-onset diabetes.

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