Healthy And Simple

A few years ago, when I was working as a producer in TV, doing health and medical news, my reporter and I used to joke that our health segment every day could consist of her sitting on the set and saying “eat right, exercise regularly, see you tomorrow.” That’s because most of the issues and […]

I love trying new things. I remember the first time Shirley got me to try horseback riding, it was amazing. It’s a completely different relationship with nature when you are riding through the hills on a horse. The pace, the rhythm, the feel, even just the perspective is different than anything you’ve experienced before. It […]

Dear Diary,
Last week, after playing squash with Kevin, I was walking past the gym lobby and noticed a few people crowded around a little machine taking turns measuring something.  Since I am perpetually curious I stopped and watched as one by one folks stood on the machine and held on to 2 handles.
The gal running […]

I love watching people move. There is something fascinating in observing something so simple, yet so complex and so varied. If you go to the park or beach and see people jogging you can watch 20 or 30 runners go by and each one has a very different style, very different stride.
The same is true […]

I live a kind of schizophrenic existence. On the one hand I’m a journalist who writes about health issues. On the other hand I also work as a media relations manager at a big city hospital where part of my job entails pitching stories to health journalists, like me! See what I mean about […]

I recently moved to a new office. It’s nothing fancy, just a cubicle in a fairly ordinary looking office block. But several things that have happened since moving in have highlighted for me the problems we all face in trying to lead healthy lives, even when we really want to.
My cubicle is on the […]

We never really appreciate something until we no longer have it. That’s particularly true of our knees. For most of our lives we take them for granted. They help us get around but we don’t really pay much attention to them. They’re uncelebrated and unsexy; after all, when was the last time you heard someone […]

So I was down in our Research Library going through some old files on all the studies and headlines we have accumulated. You know, processing the data dump. Okay, so I was actually just shuffling through the stack of print outs that are sitting on the dining room chair, okay? But look […]

What do you do when you really don’t feel like doing anything. The other day I really just felt like taking a nap. Getting through the afternoon without falling asleep was tough and I certainly didn’t feel like going to the gym or going out to a formal dinner afterwards. But in the end I […]

When I was a kid I remember that the one gym class everyone dreaded was circuit training. It was as if it had been designed by sadists with small boys in mind. Get the kids to run around and use every single piece of equipment in the gym till every single muscle in their body […]