By Sheri Colberg, PhD, FACSM A few years ago it was announced that sedentary lifestyles and poor eating habits were poised to overtake smoking as the leading cause of preventable death — yes, preventable. Are your patients aware that exercise is likely the best "medicine" that they will ever come across …
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By Sheri Colberg, PhD, FACSM Why are today’s youth so inactive? Aren’t kids supposed to be the ones who run ahead and wait for us slowpokes to catch up? Adults may unconsciously be even more of the problem than being poor role models.
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By Sheri Colberg, PhD, FACSM As a diabetes researcher and exercise expert, I appreciated the overall message of the episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" about the diabetes problem that aired on February 4, 2010, titled "America’s Silent Killer: Oprah and Dr. Oz Want to Save Your Life." Americans need …
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By Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM The National Changing Diabetes (R) Program (NCDP), a program of Novo Nordisk (www.ncdp.com), recently published online the results of their new analysis that found that the cost of diabetes and pre-diabetes reached $218 billion in 2007, with the exploding number of cases of Type 2 …
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By Sheri Colberg, Ph.D. How many of your patients made a New Year’s resolution to get more physically active? If they’re like the rest of the American population, a whole lot of them did. How many of them will follow through on this goal, though, and even more importantly, how many of …
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by Sheri Colberg, Ph. D. #1: Exercise is the best medicine. Many recent studies have shown that Type 2 diabetes may actually be preventable with regular physical activity, even with only brisk walking. For all individuals with diabetes, exercise enhances your body’s sensitivity to insulin, which …
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By Sheri Colberg, Ph.D. I have had many people ask me recently if they can follow a low-carb diet and still do significant exercise training and events — individuals with both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. Not all of us follow the "low-carb" mantra (even if we moderate our carbohydrate …
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By Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM Muscle Cramps: Are They Preventable? If you experience painful, involuntary contractions of your muscles, you’re having a muscle cramp. They can occur in any muscle but are most common in the legs, feet, and muscles that cross two joints, such as …
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By Sheri Colberg-Ochs, Ph.D. How many of you read the Time magazine cover story from the August 17, 2009 issue titled "The Myth about Exercise"? If you did see the cover, it likely immediately caught your interest as it showed a reasonably fit and young woman walking …
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