Get Fit Slowly

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!For years I’ve struggled to get a good night’s sleep. I used to sleep fine, but somewhere along the way a combination of age and fat caused me to begin snoring. Kris and I went camping with Mac and […]

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Last week I wrote about some odd ways to improve your health. I was particularly dismissive of the Neit pot, which allows a person to perform nasal irrigation. “My logical mind just doesn’t see any reason this would be beneficial to health,” I wrote.
Tons of Get Fit Slowly readers wrote to share their experiences, and […]

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Earlier this week, Dumb Little Man posted a list of 11 odd but simple ways to improve your health. Some of these seem odd, indeed. One suggestion is to use Neti pots to perform nasal irrigation. This practice floods the nasal cavity with warm salt water, and allegedly improves sinus health.

I’m skeptical. My logical mind […]

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I am sick. I have a cold: My nose is stuffed, my throat is sore, and I’m exhausted. It’s 7:51, and I should already be at the gym. But I didn’t sleep well last night. I feel like I didn’t sleep at all.
Though I could tell I was coming down with something last Saturday morning, […]

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This is a guest post from greenman2001.
The Nutrition Action Healthletter is published by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a non-profit group that accepts no government or industry funding and is devoted to providing consumers with information about nutrition. Its primary focus is on examining packaged food sold in supermarkets and restaurant […]

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Although I realize there are no quick and easy paths to health, I do sometimes find myself taken in by the promise of an easy cure. I’m never going to believe promises like “take one pill a day and lose 30 pounds a month!” or “buy a big bright green pleasure machine and all your […]

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This is part two of several posts reviewing Lisa R. Young’s, The Portion Teller: Smartsize Your Way to Permanent Weight Loss. Part one explained how to “smartsize” your meals.
One of the most practical points that I’ve taken from this book so far is this: Americans eat too much of everything. There isn’t […]

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I’m tired all the time. It sucks, and it’s something I hope to change over the next few months.
Certain foods and activities make me more tired than others. For example, as much as I love Nalley-brand chili, there’s something in it that just knocks me out. (I suspect MSG, monosodium glutamate, which is one of […]

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I have been reading a lot of nutrition labels over the last few months. And like most people, I’ve been looking foods with a relatively low amount of calories. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not only looking at the calories. I’m also looking at the fat, carbohydrate, and protein content of the foods I’m […]

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According to new research by food scientists, foods like peanut butter, avocado, eggs, coffee, and mushrooms may not be as bad for your diet as once perceived. In fact, scientists have discovered redeeming qualities in all of the aforementioned foods.
Peanut Butter
Peanut butter is fatty and high in calories, right? Right, but studies […]

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