Andrea Beaman is one of the most sensible and kind voices out there on the topic of feeding and treating yourself right. What other health and nutrition guru would admit to smoking the occasional cigarette (but only after a couple of drinks!), and explain it in a way that shows us how to quit all our unhealthy addictions?
Andrea was FitFam's guest on the December Member Call. Listen online (60 min) or download the mp3 below to discover:
- several healthy holiday treats
- whether short fasts during the holiday season will make things better or worse
- the mindset shift that allows anyone to "find the time" to prepare healthy food every day
- three convenience foods that can turn anyone into a healthy short-order cook on a moment's notice
- how to quit smoking by not quitting smoking
- the secret to breaking food addictions without struggling or feeling deprived
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Kathleen Melanson, Director of the University of Rhode Island's Energy Metabolism Laboratory, is conducting a series of brilliant and simple experiments about the connection between how fast we eat and how many calories we consume.
One experiment even got press in USA Today: 30 college-age women were asked to eat a meal of pasta and sauce with grated cheese, and a glass of water on two different occasions. One time they were asked to eat quickly, and were given a large spoon and bowl, and the other time they were asked to eat as slowly as possible, with a small spoon and bowl, and instructed to place their spoon down between bites.
The results: Keep Reading…
Julie's Health Club blog shared an article questioning whether Whole Foods is selling out by offering products from Coke and Pepsi (Odwalla and Fuelosophy, respectively). The post sparked a spirited discussion, and as offen happens, I found myself sort of agreeing with everyone, despite the fact that they were disagreeing with each other.
So I called my dear friend Danny Warshay, who has as good a pedigree in the natural foods business world as anyone I know. He's a serial entrepreneur, has an MBA from Harvard, years in brand management at Procter & Gamble, and five years as a founding partner of Health Business Partners, a natural foods investment and mergers and acquisions consultancy. He's now the managing director of DEW Ventures, whose portfolio includes Culinova, a "functional foods" company that seeks to put healthy and tasty in the same foods. He's met the CEOs and founders of many of the companies that product the "health foods" we see on our supermarket shelves, and helped to midwife dozens of acquisitions of these little "mission-driven" companies by much larger ones.
I recorded the call, which you can listen to online or right-click the "Download mp3" link to download to your computer or iPod: Keep Reading…
Here's an interview and Q&A session with Greg Lynn Weaver, Spiritual Director of the PeaceWeavers. The topic: "Peaceful Parenting When You Feel Like Wringing Their Necks."
Greg Lynn answered questions about:
- how peace is related to fitness and health
- what peaceful parenting looks like
- how we get peaceful when we’ve had a lousy day
- how we can practice peaceful parenting so we have the skills when we need them
- how to break the cycle of guilt that leads to poor choices that leads to guilt…
- how to not beat ourselves up over not being perfect
- whether expressing anger verbally is appropriate or bullying
This call is not for the faint-hearted. The "s-word" is used three times, and Mother Teresa is described as "ballsy." Greg Lynn is not a mountain-top theorist - he’s living in the real world, and his language is real as well. His gentle and compassionate style and great sense of humor can help us remember what’s really important as we go through the impossible and wonderful task of raising children.
Turn on your computer speakers, and you can listen right now to a 5-minute excerpt of the call, in which Greg Lynn helps a member explore her question about expressing anger toward her kids:
The entire call is available as a CD (and soon as an electronic transcript).
The FitFam concept of playing out as a family, rather than working out as individuals strapped to machines in a windowless hall of mirrors, owes a great deal to my teacher and trainer, Jon Hinds. Jon is the founder of the Monkey Bar Gym, a revolutionary training facility in Madison, Wisconsin, where I've studied to become a CNT (Certified Natural Trainer).
Jon was the strength coach for the LA Clippers basketball team, a head instructor for the National Academy of Sports Medicine, and personal trainer to Hollywood stars like Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore. He played college basketball and worked as a street break dancer. He studied High Energy Yoga with reclusive guru Roger Eischens, and trains everyone from grannies to top athletes at the Monkey Bar Gym.
Monkey Bar Gym members rave about the results they get, but even more they talk about how much fun and camaraderie they experience at every workout. No judgment, no machines, no TVs, no mirrors, and no obsessing about appearance.
Recently I had the opportunity to interview Jon about his experiences, his training philosophy, and his take on the modern fitness industry.
Ordinarily I would make an interview of this quality available only to FitFam Members in the FitFam Radio section of the Members Study Center, but this stuff is so important I can't bring myself to be selfish. If you like the interview and want to hear many more like it, consider joining FitFam.
Without further ado, here's Jonny…
Howie interview with Jon Hinds
I was interviewed by Sunny Hills, a well-known teacher of positive affirmations and positive thinking. The topic was, "How can meditation help me with my affirmations."
Because most of the participants in the call were beginners, this interview is a useful introduction to meditation - principles and techniques.
Here is the complete program, with the introductions and some of the chit-chat edited out for your listening pleasure:
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