Blog Detail
Fitness Rocks
http://www.fitnessrocks.org
Fitness Rocks is a combination blog and podcast by Monte Ladner, M.D. The podcast and blog deal with the relationship between lifestyle (diet and exercise patterns, as well as stress) and the development or prevention of chronic disease. The information is carefully referenced to peer-reviewed medical literature.
There are frequent interviews with other health and fitness experts.
Recent Posts
Is the FDA Protecting Our Food and Drugs?
You may not know it, but most of the medications you might take, either prescribed, or over-the-counter, are made in other countries by factories that submitted the lowest bid. This makes higher profits for the drug companies doing the “outso...
My Favorite Exercise Equipment
I’m constantly getting emails from people asking me how I workout, where I workout, and what my favorite equipment is. Well, as you may have noticed from my videos, I converted my two-car garage into a home gym. Hey, some middle-aged guys b...
Global Warming – Is Not a Hoax
Yes, I have seen the articles about the crooks who stole documents from the University of Anglia, cherry-picked them and selectively published bits of them to create the fabrication that there has been a huge conspiracy among scientists to “mak...
Evolutionary Biology and Health – Part Two: an Interview With James Evans, M.D., Ph.D.
Listen to Fitness Rocks Podcast 150 In this episode of Fitness Rocks I talk to Dr. James Evans from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Dr. Evans is a molecular biologist and one of the few people involved with teaching evolutionar...
Evolutionary Biology and Health – Part One: an Interview with Neil Shubin, Ph.D.
Listen to Fitness Rocks Podcast 149 This week we start a series on evolution and health. We’ll begin with an interview with Dr. Neil Shubin, author of Your Inner Fish. Dr. Shubin is a Paleontologist and a Professor of Anatomy at the Univers...
Will Exercise Make You Live Longer?
Listen to Fitness Rocks Podcast 148 This week on Fitness Rocks I review two studies about exercise in “older” people. This podcast is relevant to “young” people as well as “old” people because it turns out that e...
