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I want to extend a special “Thanks!” to our audience, as response to the previous post regarding observations and comments has been outstanding. Our community of HEALTH orientation and CARING for each other extends far and wide. It’s actually the true form of “healthcare,” but that’s a slightly different topic I’ll save for another time. This post has some reporting…

This is a report about observations. They represent topics worthy of comment and experiences of enlightenment. The observations have been made by our JACKED group collectively during meetings, by individual participants as they made “mid-term” assessments, and by myself as the progenitor of this Project. We’ve been cruising along now, in an oh-so-JACKED manner, for 2-½ months. That has been…

Whoa! Where has this post and others been? I had originally intended to share observations and insights about Project JACKED on a weekly, or close to that, basis. However, I have become so engrossed in all of the internal meetings and educational presentations, the individualized coaching, and the data collection of JACKED that somehow we are at the halfway mark…

And that, my fellow health and fitness enthusiast, is the question. Or is it? 2018 is off and running, or at least that is a popular conception. In reality, time neither stands still nor speeds up, but we have many cultural norms that suggest otherwise.   Year-end, at least the month of December, is a very quiet time for me.…

My goodness! Time does fly by, doesn’t it? We are fast approaching year-end and here at TLB HQ that means one thing…it’s time to get ready for next year’s health and fitness project!   And what a project it will be! After spending the past several years using myself as a case study subject, a lab rat, or a guinea…

Are we out of shape, addicted to sugar, and possessed of broken-down knees? Recent research implies these associations, and it stimulates within me great interest as well as concern.   A study, published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in August 2017 by researchers from Harvard, reported that Americans today are twice as likely to have knee…

In any given week, how much time to do you spend at a workstation? When considering this, count your job, your home office, time spent with a device or pen and paper (remember those?) at the counter, on the couch, or at a coffee shop. If we do this honestly, most of us can come up with 30-60 hours per…

I hope this post finds everyone enjoying a wonderful summer. Heat and forest-fire smoke notwithstanding, summer is a glorious and brief time in southwest Montana, and seizing every opportunity it presents is paramount. Big changes are on the horizon for my company, and for me, and I wanted to let you know about all the exciting happenings.   I’ll be…

Howdy, and thanks so much all the great feedback and questions I’ve been receiving on Project Ninetenseventeen and my health consulting work. Turns out that the number one topic of late has been the subject of Nutritional Ketosis (NK). So I’ve decided to offer a free seminar that addresses all this interest in a fun, interactive session. And it also…

I’ve got a new program, or a slightly different format for a program I’ve been doing for the last few years, to share with you. But before I do that, I’d like to share some exciting news about temperature. I’m an advocate for outdoor activity and exercise. That’s not saying that I’m opposed to training indoors when the weather is…

I recently had the opportunity to sit down over coffee with Jackie Rainford Corcoran, author of the Explore Big Sky health column, “From Jackie, With Love”. Jackie is a colleague in the profession of health enhancement, and I am pleased to share with you some of her valuable insights. Whether one’s title is health coach, health consultant, health engineer, health…

Recently I was on a trip to the other side of the country, and I found myself out for a morning walk down a rural road. As I ambled along and amused myself with all sorts of thoughts and self-talk (yes, some of it verbal but no one was around), I was startled by a sudden noise coming up the…

The New Year is upon us and I sincerely hope that you had a great 2016 and a wonderful holiday season! I’m filled with excitement and enthusiasm for the coming year, and for all the fantastic new information we can use to enhance our health, fitness, and happiness. This is a short post to start the calendar off right and…

The controversy regarding butter, margarine, vegetable oils, saturated fats, polyunsaturated fats, trans fats, and cardiovascular disease has raged since the 1950’s. We’ve always been taught the diet-heart hypothesis that suggests that saturated fat intake raises serum cholesterol which in turn leads to atherosclerosis and heart disease. We’ve also been led to believe that consumption of polyunsaturated vegetable oils is “cardio-protective”…

Every month I consume over 100 professional journal articles, magazines, books, emails, blog posts, and podcasts in the health, wellness, fitness, rehab, nutrition, and related fields. I do this because it is one of my major interests and relaying accurate information on these topics to my clients is my job. Because diet and exercise, in particular, are some of the…

Just in case it isn’t obvious, the primary focus of The Lifetime Body is to Make Your Body Last a Lifetime. Keeping your body functioning at optimal levels of health and fitness through the lifespan allows for maximum quality, enjoyment, and productivity in all areas of life. It’s about more than just the physical body, but the being, the mind,…

There is perhaps no better way to introduce this new delivery format for health news than to begin with the topic mentioned above. A friend recently shared an article from The Atlantic entitled “How Back Pain Took Over the World”. This article covered an update to the Global Burden of Disease Study which was recently published in The Lancet. Essentially, the study…

As many of you know, I am a lifelong student of human performance and function.  I never tire of learning new things and pondering old ones when it comes to what makes us tick and what might be a good way to keep us ticking just a little better or a little longer.  Of course this has been true for…

(This is a transcript from a conference presentation I gave last year on wellness.) The topic of my discussion today is Wellness…or more specifically wellness in the workplace.  It is indeed one of the great subjects of our time and I’m thrilled to share some of my insights and experiences. When I found out that I was speaking in the…

I find that being involved in fitness training, and in writing and speaking about those activities, is very stimulating for my brain.  Along those lines, some extremely interesting data, and an associated article, have caught my attention.  Earlier this month, a study was published in the Journal of Physiology, and a subsequent article was written in the New York Times,…

The Harvard Health Blog recently had a post entitled “How is the Affordable Care Act Doing?” and it is a very quick and interesting read.  The post cites a study from the New England Journal of Medicine and goes on to emphasize that while the ACA has resulted in more Americans having health insurance, it has accomplished very little.  The…

The relationship between body composition (lean body mass plus bodyfat), levels of fitness, health, and longevity, continue to be hot topics in the wellness world, and this is especially true at the beginning of a new year.  Many people focus on fitness or weight loss at this time, and it’s no secret, given the extensive marketing campaigns built around the…

I recently chatted with my friend Steve Stowers, PhD.  Steve is a professor of Neurobiology at Montana State University, and a national-level competitor in ultramarathon running.  He shared with me an article from Velo News entitled “Cycling to Extremes – Are endurance athletes hurting their hearts by repeatedly pushing beyond what is normal?”.  The link for the article is http://velonews.competitor.com/cycling-extremes…

I’m going to comment on what is really a popular topic in the current health/fitness mindset.  If I really want to live as long as my genetics and good fortune will allow me, how much exercise is enough, and of what type? In the Well section of the New York Times, Gretchen Reynolds recently wrote a great article on this…

In this post I’m going to look briefly at a few popular words.  Activity is simply what it sounds like.  If you walk to work, mop the floor, stack some firewood, etc., this is activity.  Studies show that you get most of the health benefits available from activity if you burn about 2000 calories per week being active.  Differing from that,…

The topic of healthcare in America is a massive and complex one. It is a topic that I may address with multiple posts in this blog.  What I’m going to focus on today is the term and its potential definitions. When I think of the term “healthcare”, I envision a system that is committed to keeping people in an optimal…