McKenna’s Musings A Newsletter of Health, Fitness and Nutrition           Mused after reading an article from the British Medical Journal that looked at 70,000 women and 40,000 men and activities that decreased their risk of death. Walking decreased it by 17%, and the only percentage higher was doing a wide range of […]

Mused after reading about David Protein bars, that 75% of their calories are from the protein itself. This percentage is much higher than that of other protein bars. One of the main owners of David Protein bars started RxBar and sold that. PROTEIN BARS With the advent of David Protein bars, protein bars are once […]

  Mused after deciding to devote the first few emails of this year to “exercising and muscle building, what it takes.” Specifically, “how do muscles grow,” “protein bars,” and “how much walking do you need to do?” I hope my 50+ years of exercise experience (motivated by Jack Lalanne and Arnold Schwarzenegger), with some recent studies, […]

Mused after reading “New Year’s resolutions may be the most widespread behavioral experiment ever attempted- a great unsupervised trial in overconfidence.” Some top New Year’s resolutions and percentage of Americans who want to do them: exercising more-25%, being happier-23%, eating healthier-22%, saving more money-21%, improving mental health-21%, learning something new-17%, spending more time with family-15%, […]

Mused after reading “when we lack compassion for our missteps, we are not only more likely to beat ourselves up, but also less likely to learn from our mistakes…we believe they are inescapable parts of our character. It is only when we see them as a natural part of the human condition, rather than as […]

Mused after finding “different” holiday experiences. If you’re like me there’s only so much Mariah I can listen to. Jimmy Fallon on Sirius XM channel 15 has songs you have never heard and songs you have sung by lesser-known artists. The movie, The Man Who Invented Christmas, is a fictionalized account of Charles Dickens in […]