This website is a favorite, and this morning's e-mail from them reminded me why. This morning's news item about the effectiveness of using podcasts has been one of my "secret weapons". I think they offer excellent suggestions about fitness overall, as well as offering good nutritional advice in actionable, bite size (pun intended) chunks.
In case you've not heard of Real Age before, the gimmick behind the name is that you enter in your lifestyle info (height, wage, age, habits) and they give you your "real age". It's quite compelling. I took the test right after my yoga certification and was thrilled to see my real age lower than my chronological age...) They also give you a pretty concise list of things you can do to improve, beyond the usual lose weight, move more advice. (I need to stop talking on my cell phone while driving and floss more ;-)
This site/service is the brainchild of Dr. O; Friend of Oprah and author of the "You: An Owners Manual" series which I enjoy enough to reserve at the library each time a new one comes out.
Note: I no longer allow myself to buy new health/fitness books on a regular basis - good thing MV and Sunnyvale libraries let me search/reserve... slower than Amazon but much cheaper!
Ahem, back to Real Age. The bi-weekly emails are reliably interesting. This week's newsletter has a tip that I've used for years, and that is the value of podcasts as a way to get your mind refocused on health. Though they don't list any in the article, the comments of the readers are often as good a source as the authors ;-)
So, if you're into this sort of thing, give them a look see!
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