Thank you, Ms. Rose.

There is an old adage that you cannot out exercise a bad diet and I agree but I think that there are valid reasons to exercise.

Personally, I had a period of about 8 years between exercise sessions. Exercise and physical activity receded into the background-work, family commitments were in the forefront as they should be.

Now I realize that an hour or so excercse routine can be incorporated seamlessly into my life and actually enhances the other aspects of my life. Obviously that "number" could be increased or decreased with little effort and nothing else would be adversely affected.

Paleoeat has a great review with some of the highlights of BBS and I hope that he could cut and paste them here. Dr. McGuff discusses the benfits of heavy slow weightlifting as an exercise and others would benefit from his arguments.

One point that I will mention is that he believes that lifting weights in a fasted state promotes insulin sensitivity.