Healthy and Simple

This past weekend Kevin and I took a hike.  Our original thought was to hike the famous trail in Mill Valley called the Dipsea.  Every summer the Dipsea trail is used for one of the most famous running races in the U.S.  It is a race from Mill Valley up the hill and over what [...]

Sometimes it feels as if you can’t turn around without bumping into another study that tells you how wonderful exercise is. Most of it is stuff you probably already know – at least it is if you read Health and Simple regularly – but once in a while you come across some fun new benefit [...]

If your idea of a good workout is driving around a golf course in a cart and playing a round of golf, say bye bye to your brain! A new study says to help protect your mind against the ravages of dementia you need to up the ante a bit. But the good news is [...]

So, I was racking my brains trying to come up with a great new exercise to enthrall and engage you. Then it came to me, windsurfing! It’s fun, it’s great exercise and you get to look cool in a body-fitting rubber suit. – like Batman but without the cape and mask. Then I remembered I [...]

There are exceptions to every rule. Take, for example, the rule that ‘what goes up must come down’. That’s not always the case. British singer Amy Winehouse’s drug consumption never seems to decrease, nor does the cost of health care. But in most other cases the rule is true.
For instance, I work on the fifth [...]

Have you noticed that every men’s health magazine ever published has a picture of a man on the front with ridiculously well-defined, sculpted, six pack abs – accompanied by a story on how you too can get a washboard tummy in just five minutes a day.
Oh, if only it were that simple. Getting those kinds [...]

Have you ever looked at those health magazines in the checkout line at the grocery store? Of course you have, what else are you going to do while waiting for the woman in front to figure out which coupons go with which item and then do a lengthy search through her purse for her rewards [...]