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Strengthening Your Core: Right & Wrong Ways to do Lunges, Squats, & Planks
What do slouching, back pain, and a middling forehand or weak shot off the tee have in common? Often it’s a weak core—the girdle of muscles, bones, and joints that links your upper and lower body. Your core gives you stability and helps power the moves you make every day. Whether it’s bending to pick up a laundry basket, swinging a golf club, paddling a kayak, or reaching to pull a vase from the top shelf of a cabinet, a strong and flexible core makes the move more fluid, efficient, and robust. Strong, well-balanced core muscles can also improve your posture and help prevent back injuries. And if back pain does strike, core exercises are usually part of the rehab regimen.
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To Fast or Not? The New Dieting Dilemma
Cardiologist Ethan J. Weiss, MD, followed an intermittent fasting diet for 7 years. He lost about 3.6 kg (8 lb) and began recommending the approach to friends and patients who wanted to lose weight.
“I liked the way the diet was so simple,” said Weiss, an associate professor at the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
But he also felt “it was too good to be true because you can eat what you want as long as it’s within a narrow window.”
So when, last year, he conducted a randomized controlled trial, TREAT, testing such an approach — eating during just 8 hours a day, fasting for the remaining 16 hours — versus an eating plan of three meals a day without restrictions, he was somewhat dismayed to find the group of people who fasted didn’t lose any more weight than the other group.