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You’re about to gain weight. Unless …

If you're like most Americans, your weight was at its annual low last month. And you will now begin to gain weight until you reach your annual high in early January. Yup. It's all that holiday eating. What to do? Clue: an ounce of prevention's worth a pound of cure.
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Don’t Fall Fall: Flex Those Hips

You could slip, trip or otherwise sprain an ankle or end up on your butt later today. And off both feet for six to eight weeks. So take a minute to consider two minutes a day of Balance Training. One leg at a time. Just Press Play.
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Walking & Eating in Nepal

I don't know about you, but my jaw doesn't actually drop all that often. When I got up to the ridge line, my jaw dropped. Every peak in sight is higher than 20,000 feet - a lot higher. You're miles away from these mountains - but your neck's craned up at a sharp angle so you can see the summits.
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Don’t Fall Fall: Stand for your thighs

A 2-minute exercise to strengthen the muscles you use to stay on your feet. This one'll strengthen and tone your outer thighs, too. Your abductor muscles. Mission-critical muscles for slippery winter weather and for next summer's beach look.
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Walk to the Sun, the Moon and the Stairs

In Mexico. Back in the 5th century, this was quite the place to live. And eat. And climb pyramids. Next week, I'll make some great dishes that come from this time and place. The culture that gave us one of the original and tastiest low Glycemic Load diets.
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Don’t Fall Fall: Balance and stretch

It stretches, it strengthens, it balances. And gets you off your butt. It's the Quadriceps Balance & Stretch. Multi-tasking on one foot. Cost-Benefit Analysis: a lot of benefits for three minutes of your time.
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Don’t Fall Fall: Knees up. One at a time

A 3-minute exercise to strengthen the muscles you use to stay on your feet. To train them to react fast. So when you step onto an uneven, slippery or unstable surface that makes you begin to lose your balance - you'll immediately regain it. An exercise for all seasons.
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Don’t Fall Fall: Heels and Toes

A 3-minute exercise to strengthen and train the muscles you use to stay on your feet. A dynamic balance exercise. It's not as goofy or easy as it looks. A little like tightrope-walking. No rope, no net. You can do it right on the floor.
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Sawtooth Mountains, Idaho Potatoes

I've had potatoes on my mind since I used the season's first fresh ones for that killer potato salad. Which recalled a killer hike in Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains, a 10-mile roundtrip trail that goes up 2,000 feet and burns about 2,000 calories. About 15 big potatoes.
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