We took a few weeks off from writing and posting at 3mph.org to celebrate the arrival of Winter. It arrived, and now that it’s here, we aren’t all that happy about it. Everything slows down or hibernates during the Winter. The sun heads off to the Southern Hemisphere, and we can’t get past the idea […]
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Cold and Flu season kicks off at the end of October and can last until late Spring, with the peak between December and February. Pharmaceutical companies, medical conglomerates, and their partners in the media suggest that every flu season is different and the one step you should take to reduce your risk of serious illness
While we were dialing in our macros the other day in “Chronometer,” the nutrition tracking app we both use, we started discussing the new governmental food recommendations released by the current administration. The conversation went to a comment one of us had seen recently about “Lucky Charms” (an extruded wheat grain cereal with tons of
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The federal government banned the sale of raw milk across state lines about three decades ago. There are presently about a dozen states where you can purchase raw milk at a retail store, and there are another dozen where all unpasteurized dairy products are illegal. A significant number now allow direct-to-consumer sales of raw milk,
We’ve been focused on health, nutrition, and fitness at 3mph.org since the beginning (six years ago). We were interested before; we just didn’t take it as seriously. Once we graduated into our sixties, however, it became apparent that we couldn’t afford only to be interested, we needed to be fully invested and hyper-focused. For the
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Most of my best-loved activities take place outside. Before the internet, I read numerous magazines and periodicals; many were about doing things outside — one of my favorite magazines used “Outside” as its name. I don’t spend much time reading magazines anymore, the world has been digitalized. Another thing that’s not getting near as much
Last week’s article, “Fountain of Youth” was about how exercise and a healthy diet enhance life and increase longevity. Exercise though has only existed for the blink of an eye in our grand evolutionary experiment. Exercise to increase strength, speed, and endurance began about 2600 years ago in Greece. Soldiers would lift heavy rocks, run
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We discovered a new latin phrase recently;“Solvitur Ambulando” and immediately fell in love. Translation: It is Solved by Walking or It is Solved by Walking Around. I’ve seen it credited to both Diogenes and Saint Augustine, but who said it is not as interesting as how well it fits with the 3mph lifestyle. Whatever the
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We’ve been juicing for a dozen years, and love the antioxidant buzz we get from downing a big glass of fresh-blended roots, fruits, and veggies. Numerous studies have proven that the consumption of vegetables and fruits is correlated to a lower incidence of chronic disease. Drinking vegetable and fruit juice is an efficient way to
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I just finished climbing the Empire State Building in an hour. The wind’s up today, and it’s cold too, so going for a walk is a bit sketchy. Yeah, I could bundle up in multiple layers and brave the conditions but I decided not to. I decided to climb the Empire State Building instead. It wasn’t
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The pharmaceutical industry has propagated one of the greatest lies in the history of medicine. The belief that tweaking a symptom this way or that, by shutting off a signaling molecule, enzyme or hormone actually fixes the problem. Sadly, the underlying issue is often exacerbated by these pharmaceuticals. The medical industry has followed along, prescribing
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Fitness and diet have become two of the most important things in our lives, in the last half decade. Before that, we didn’t give them the correct weighting in our daily life. When we were young we wielded them like weapons, to achieve one goal or another and then we would resheath them until we
One of our favorite quotes at 3mph, is “Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food.” We’ve always attributed the quote to Hippocrates, the 1st doctor. Research however, suggests that Hippocrates never uttered those words. It doesn’t really matter who said it first, we love the concept and strive to make it
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