If you could replace exercise with a pill, would you? Think about it, because even if you don’t love to exercise you may be improving your health without realizing it. The current recommendations for exercise are 150 minutes per week. More is better. Up to 7 hours of exercise a week will improve your health. After 7 hours the benefits …
Are Mushrooms the Fountain of Youth?
Do you like mushrooms? They are one of those foods that people like, or don’t like. You are a mushroom fan or you are not. I have definitely been in the “not a fan” category for a long time. Then I read Dr. Greger’s book How Not to Die and one of his recommendations was to eat mushrooms regularly. I thought I …
Keto, is it worth it?
Ketogenic diets, do they live up to the promise? The latest food trend is the ketogenic diet. An extremely high-fat diet, which eliminates carbohydrates as a food group and relies mostly on fat as fuel. Following a keto diet means eating 80% fat, less than 5% carbohydrates and 15% protein. If your diet is less than 5% carbohydrates, then you …
Can you outrun stress?
You know the saying you can’t run away from your problems? Maybe you can. Or at least reduce the impact. Exercise, and particularly running, may erase the long-term effects of stress on your brain health. Exercise can prevent your brain from suffering the negative side-effects of chronic stress. We can’t always control our stress, but we can control how much we exercise. A …
How do you think about ageing?
How do you think about ageing? Do you think that age is inevitably linked with disease? I have been thinking about how we view ageing has changed over the last few years. Mostly because it is my birthday this week. I think of birthdays like a personal new year, a time to reflect on how the past year went and …
What is your Foodprint?
Food Footprint Do you want to know your environmental footprint from eating or not eating animal products? You can find out here. Americans consume the most meat, followed by Australia, Brazil, Canada, and China. Your food choices matter—not just for your health but also for the health of the planet. Americans consume 260 lbs of meat products per year. It takes …
Friends with Benefits
If you start eating better, everyone benefits. Regardless if you are the only one in your home on a weight loss program, everyone else benefits too. Weight Watchers funded a research study to see if losing weight was beneficial to other family members. Surprise, surprise your efforts at eating better benefits, everyone. This should not be a surprise. I have …
Moderation never works.
Everything in moderation. At some time you have heard that this is the way to eat well and stay slim. I don’t buy it, but then again I have never been that good at moderation. Maybe it doesn’t work for me or this is a rule other people can live by and maintain their weight. Maybe not. Calorie density or …
Give your heart some love
How is your ejection fraction? If you exercise regularly, it is probably normal. If you have been sedentary you may still have time to make a difference and give your heart some love. First, what is your ejection fraction? Your ejection fraction refers to the percentage of blood left in your ventricles when your heart contracts. Your left ventricle pumps …
Three reasons you aren’t losing weight
Change is hard. It takes awareness and planning to make change last. One of the most common resolutions to change is permanent weight loss. I have seen many weight loss strategies come and go in my professional and personal life. With our access to information, our knowledge of nutrition, genetics, and human physiology, with our apps and devices, we really …
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