I just got ambushed by an obese couple who recognized me and wanted advise on how to help their teenage daughter lose weight. They were both at least 75+ pounds overweight and had NO questions for themselves, only for how to help their daughter.

Did you know that having one obese parent raises a child’s risk of obesity by 50%, two obese parents shoots that number up to 80%. This child only has a 20% chance of success.

My heart goes out to her as this will be a tough one. It will be like living in the crack house, which crack addicted parents, while trying to get clean.

Jim

Great article in “Environmental Nutrition” which reports this research from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

They took 80 people, have overweight and half at normal weight, and had them complete two 28-day feeding periods. One was a diet in high-glycemic carbs, such as white sugar, fruit in canned syrup and white flour. The other was in low-glycemic carbs such as whole-grain breads and cereals.

Among the overweight and obese people, the low-glycemic eating regime reduced the inflammatory marker, c-reactive protein, by 22% and reduced their risk of cancer and metabolic disorders by 5%,

That’s big and yet ANOTHER reason to always eat low-glycemic carbs and avoid the high-glycemic ones.

Bottom line, but the crap. It’s life saving in the long run.

Jim

Check it out. She’s a total doll.

http://www.hlntv.com/video/2012/05/10/eat-small-work-out-hard-eat-big-repeat

New research says that 90% of the risks associated with heart attacks are within your control and include:

High Cholesterol

High Blood Pressure

Diet

Physical Activity

Smoking

It’s EASY to prevent. I always laugh, to myself, when i hear someone had a heart attack at age 51. I always think “how DIDN’T they have a heart attack before that given the shape that they are in.”

Don’t mean to sound rude, but come on, don’t you know some of the same people???

This is craziness. Some nutty women in New York are doing it regularly. All the working out will break down your body, ruin your joints and posture and age you. It will also only make you hungry.

Read about the insanity – http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20120507/WIRE/120509683/1008/living?Title=Workouts-times-2-or-3-

Don trains Hugh Jackman, in addition to some other celebs. Hugh and another big client are out of town shooting new films, so if you want the opportunity to work with a true world class trainer, give our office a call at 773-244-0123, and we can set it up.

Only those interested in looking like Hugh Jackman or Diane Sawyer should apply as Don is a serious trainer.

Jim

No surprise to me as marathons kill.

Check out the article and google marathons kill. You will be shocked at how many pages there are showing this to be true.

http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap-missingrunner

It’s of my Cardio-Free studio – http://www.jimkaras.com/pages/overview/84.php

It’s about my firm’s expansion to the western burbs – http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20120420/BLOGS01/120429984/celeb-trainer-jim-karas-to-open-hinsdale-workout-studio

And fortunately, they just keep coming:

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