5 Things You Need to Know About the New Nutrition Facts Label Last weekend, I appeared on the Good Day Philadelphia morning show on WTXF-TV (Fox 29). I was invited on to the show as the expert Dietitian/Nutritionist to provide insights around how the U.S Food and Drug Administration just finalized the new Nutrition Facts…
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Registered Dietitian, Ashvini Mashru,MA,RD,LDN, Recommends Vertex Fitness As a Registered Dietitian with a specialty in weight loss and weight management, strength training is what I recommend my clients , especially women over 40. Strength training allows you to build and maintain muscle. The more muscle you have, the greater your resting metabolic rate will be.…
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Alcohol Eats Away at Muscle Mass If increasing muscle mass is one of your goals, then think twice before you go out for a night of heavy drinking. Consuming alcohol in large quantities has a direct effect on your metabolism, causing fat to be stored instead of being utilized as an energy source. Alcohol contains…
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Summer Strength Summertime is here (did we even have a spring?)! Summer is such a great time. I look forward to working out in the yard, taking the kids to the pool and seeing all of our friends out and about in the neighborhood. I also look forward to going to many bar-b-ques, and baseball…
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Type 2 Diabetes & Exercise The incidence of type 2 diabetes is on the rise, which experts largely attribute to the rise in obesity. Type 2 diabetes, which is responsible for 90 to 95% of all diabetes cases, is more common in adults, but as rates of childhood obesity increase, more young children are being…
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Type 1 Diabetes & Exercise Type 1 diabetes is a disease that affects the body’s ability to use sugars, starches, fats and proteins. Because the body needs various fuels for energy, this disease disrupts normal energy metabolism both at rest and during physical exercise. Following digestion, a hormone called insulin is released into the blood…
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Exercise and Fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia is a debilitating condition affecting between 1 and 3% of the general population. The syndrome is characterized by widespread muscle aches and pains, stiffness, fatigue and muscle spasms. Many people with fibromyalgia report difficulty doing everyday activities such as carrying objects, walking and working with their arms. Pain, fatigue, helplessness, psychological…
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Exercise and Arthritis Arthritis is becoming a more prevalent health problem—and not just among the elderly. More than 40 million people have arthritis, including 33% of individuals over the age of 65. The good news is that a program of moderate exercise can offset the pain associated with this indiscriminate disease. Here are some tips…
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Summer Skin Protect your summer skin. Every sunscreen has a sun protection factor, or SPF, which is a measure of its strength or effectiveness. Each of us needs a different SPF, depending on whether, and to what degree, our skin burns or tans. A tan is the direct result of melanin, a brown pigment found…
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5 Reasons You Can’t Lose The Last 10 Pounds You have cleaned up your diet, sweated off countless calories and watched pounds melt away. But now the scale has come to a screeching halt. It’s an unfortunate law of weight loss: The last 10 pounds are harder to shed than the first 30. That’s because…
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