In today’s Wellness Minute Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy share some of their best summer running tips. It takes about 3 weeks to get used to the change in temperature. So slowly increase your outdoor running time over the first month of the summer to get used to the heat. No one is Superman the extra heat and humidity will effect your body - in fact as you age it effects your body even more. If you run in the day remember to wear sunblock, sunglasses and the right wicking clothes. Stay hydrated and do what the good doctor does and run through people’s sprinklers in their yard to cool off. Listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. iTunes Follow me on Twitter @FatGuy

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Before we got too far into the show we gave our listeners an update on the SobeFit magazine Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy Weight Loss Challenge. Week one has ended and Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy have lost a combined 8 pounds. they are just 42 pounds away from their goal of a 50 pound weight loss in 3 months. Marta Monetenegro-Auvert, founder of SobeFit, will be coming on the show regularly to help. Please send your tips and words of encouragement or sabotage to adam @ drfitnessandthefatguy.com or to @FatGuy on Twitter. And remember to check out SobeFit magazine at www.sobefitmagazine.com

On today’s show Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy opened the show with Dr Robert Melillo, founder and Executive Director of Brain Balance Achievement Centers. He is also the author of the new book Disconnected Kids which helps the parents of children who have autism. Dr Melillo’s Brain Balance program has been successfully freeing children (and their families) from the detrimental effects of neurological disorders for over a decade. To learn more about the centers as well as his book please go to his website www.bbcenters.org

Next up we had on our good friend Nicci Micco who shared some of what was happening in the Eating Well magazine world. This month’s issue features the Watermelon on the cover. Nicci talked a lot about melons as well as some great info for our friend who are suffering with gluten food sensitivities. She also wanted you to go to the Eating Well website and take the Food Safety poll. to learn more please go to www.eatingwell.com and to take the poll please go to www.eatingwell.com/foodsafety

We closed the show with America’s Fitness trainer Michael Carson who explained why his new Get Sexy DVD series is already transforming women into their dream bodies. He also said that soon you’ll be able to watch infomercials featuring the entire Get Sexy Workouts very soon. So you can try before you buy. to learn more please go to www.getsexyworkouts.com To buy the dvds go to www.collagevideo.com and to learn more about what Michael is up to go to www.mindbodyseries.com/fitness

Hurry! Time is running out for the Roswell-tree a great fun run and race held each year on July 4. This year the Fat Guy has agreed to race as long as they promised to give him a crown made of bacon if he wins. This is an invitation only event that benefits the Atlanta Community Food Bank. All participants get a cool designer t-shirt and your choice of either a tiara or a baseball cap, plus an awesome award breakfast immediately following the race. To learn more please go to www.roswelltree.org

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In today’s Wellness Minute Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy helps you live longer with these awesome nutrition based longevity tips. Eat way less - try and eat at least 25% per meal. Calorie restriction diets have been shown to encourage longer life. Increase your water intake did you know that most people are regularly slightly dehydrated and they don’t even notice. Drinking more water will prevent dehydration. Eat more fatty fish during the week and eat more fiber.  Listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. iTunes Follow me on Twitter @FatGuy

On today’s show Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy had on our good friend Marta Monetenegro-Auvert, Editor and founder of SobeFit, Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s favorite fitness lifestyle magazine. Marta issued us a challenge and we accepted it. Together Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy have to lose 50 pounds in three months. Marta is going to help and she wants to know if our listeners think we can do it. She said that the first 15 listeners who vote on whether we will achieve our 50 pound weight loss get a free one year subscription to SobeFit magazine. So send your votes (with your mailing address to adam @ drfitnessandthefatguy.com) but hurry only the first 15 get the prize. In this issue of SobeFit you can learn all about which sports are the best to be playing in your 20s, 30s, 40s+. And the twelve finalists of the Fittest Person of the Year contest are revealed and profiled. Marta also shared some exercise and fitness tips from the new Montenegro Method (she talked about a simple way to improve the squat - I’m not going to give it away you have to listen or buy the magazine) and gave us some other highlights of this month’s issue. To learn more please go to her website www.sobefitmagazine.com And don’t forget to follow them on Twitter to keep up to date on everything SobeFit at @sobefitmagazine

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In today’s Wellness Minute Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy share some of their favorite games to play with your kids. Summer is the perfect time to have some unstructured play time with your kids. The weather is great people have more free time and it stays light out longer. This is a great time to teach your kids some of the games from your youth like: hopscotch, double dutch jump roping, capture the flag and pool games like Marco Polo or Sharks and Minnows. Fitness doesn’t have to mean boring gym exercises it could also mean running around and playing in your neighborhood. We call it Neighborhood Fitness and this is the subject of our upcoming book. Listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. iTunes Follow me on Twitter @FatGuy

On today’s show Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy had on Dr Roy Vartabedian a specialist in preventative care and author of the NY Times bestseller Nutripoints. He also worked for a time as Executive Director of Wellness Programs at the Cooper Clinic with Kenneth J Cooper in Dallas. Dr Roy has analyzed the nutritional content of over 50,000 foods - no one on this planet knows more about the best and worst foods you should eat. And he kindly shared with our listeners the foods that give you the most nutritional bang for your buck. For example the best fruit is cantaloupe not an apple. the best vegetable for you is spinach - Popeye was right (not French Connection Popeye but cartoon Popeye). Best legume - green peas. Dr Vartabedian has created an awesome and easy to follow system that lets you know the nutritional value of thousands of foods at a glance. He has assigned a score for every food you could imagine and the higher the number the better the food is for you. It’s that simple try to eat about 100 points in each of the six food categories and you are eating a well balanced healthy diet. You can even go on his website and plug in what you currently eat and he’ll rate your diet. To learn more please go to his super informative and helpful website www.nutripoints.com He has written other fitness and wellness books with his co-author Jack Medina and you can learn more about them at www.jackmedina.com

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In today’s Wellness Minute Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy explain what the heck purslane is and why you should start eating it. Dr Fitness must have found this weird lettuce like veggie at either Sweet Tomatoes or Whole Foods. It is green and leafy and prevealent in Crete and Greece - home of the Mediterranean diet. It contains lots of omega 3 fatty acids and is a substitute for spinach or lettuce. Listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. iTunes Follow me on Twitter @FatGuy

On today’s show Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy had on Greg Steltenpohl, the founder of Odwalla Juices who is now on a mission to create low calorie, good tasting, sustainable products (organic and fair trade). So he and his partner (who happens to be the founder of SoBe Beverages) created Adina “Holistics” a new herbal elixir that actually tastes good. The five varieties of Adina Holistics are based on 5000 years of Ayurvedic science. Ayurveda is a popular system of alternative medicine in Southern Asia. Greg also talked about the shcool bus his Adina team drive around in that runs off of vegetable oil. As Greg likes to say Adina was founded onthe principle of Drink No Evil. To learn more and find out where you can get yours please go to their website www.adinaworld.com

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In today’s Wellness Minute Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy shares some healthy eating tips for your teenager. As with everyone, but most importantly for teens - a hearty healthy breakfast is the way to start a healthy eating day. Whole grain toast w some eggs or oatmeal is a good choice. Then have a wrap for lunch with a light dinner with some fish and lots of vegetables and your teen should be eating alright. Also a great way to make sure your teen is eating enough fruit is through smoothies, just add some protein or soy milk to that fruit. Listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. iTunes Follow me on Twitter @FatGuy

On today’s show Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy had on cartoonist Carol Lay, Author of the new graphic memoir The Big Skinny: How I Changed My Fattitude. This was the first weight loss comic book we have ever seen. Carol was a chronic overeater who felt she had to look to her past in order to move forward with her weight loss. So she detailed her journey through this funny and easily relatable graphic memoir.  It took her about a year and half to lose the 35 pounds she was trying to lose - her food and exercise journal helped her lose about 1/2 pound a week. Along the way she has battled her temptations like peanut butter and jam. Carol, who has a weekly column on Salon.com explained her motivation and shared some of her best weight loss tips like - stay away from restaurants and eat before you go to parties. To learn more about this funny and informative book, please go to her websites www.thebigskinnybook.com or www.carollay.com

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