First of all, there are a lot of articles all over the internet and various magazines telling you that you can gain muscle and lose weight at the same time if you just buy this supplement, do this routine, or what have you. These...

Submitted by resident Cyd Notter Q:  Dear Coach, I’ve tried every diet out there but always gain the weight back and more.  What advice would you give for me for how to lose weight without starving?  Jan A:  Dear Jan, thanks for your question.  Good for...

Submitted by Cyd Notter Dear Coach:  I’m in pretty good health (knock on wood) but my family history is loaded with heart disease and that’s always in the back of my mind.  When and why would it be necessary for healthy people to change their...

Dear Coach, I made a New Year’s resolution to include more healthy foods in my diet this year, but my family and my boyfriend make fun of me or try to push junk food my way.  Instead of being supportive, they actually seem to...

     Imagine a new drug that reduces LDL (bad) cholesterol as much as statins do while more than doubling the levels of HDL (good) cholesterol, all without the muscle pain associated with statins.  Eli Lilly had high hopes for this new drug, called evacetrapib,...

Halloween often centers on candy, sweets, costumes, trick-or-treating and fun.  Having grown up in an era where it was safe to go trick-or-treating way past dark with no adult supervision, I remember the excitement of receiving not only the usual candy bars of the...