Review Wednesdays

I am going to designate Wednesdays as the day I write product reviews about anything and everything. I have a lot of (mostly useless) opinions about products and I feel the world needs to read them ;)

Today, my reviews are health & fitness related.

My latest addiction isn't a product, but a blog. I am infatuated with fitness and nutrition research/info/books/magazines/blogs/studies....I really should be teeny tiny, but I digress. I stumbled across this blog by an ottawa physician, Yoni Freedhoff, who owns the Bariatric Medical Institute here in Ottawa. BMI specializes in obesity management and healthy living through nutrition and exercise. While I can't comment on the effectiveness of the BMI program (I don't know of anyone who has gone there), I can definitely recommend you check out his blog, http://bmimedical.blogspot.com/. He is a great advocate for healthy living, and pulls no punches when it comes to going up against "Big Food", the canadian government, and organizations like the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

There are 2 books that I have been enjoying recently.

The Eat Clean Diet by Tosca Reno - This isn't so much a diet book, as it is a book about healthy, sensible nutrition. I am a big fan of Tosca. She's pushing 50 and has a body that women of any age would envy. Pretty cool considering she was over 200 lbs at the age of 40. She frequents Oxygen magazine and is big into weight lifting.

The New Rules for Lifting for Women by Lou Schular - This book provides great weight lifting information and debunks a lot of common myths about women and weights. It's a good read, and the exercises are challenging and well explained.

Of course, none of these products will do a thing for you if you don't live them.