When I talked about fasting benefits I mentioned how eating too much effects your brain. Your brain is not separate from your body. What you eat, how you feel, how you exercise will have an effect on your brain and a 20 year study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease reinforces this connection. The research found that insulin resistance …
Fasting Benefits
Before my attempt at fasting, I would have said, “Why bother?” Eat well and stop looking for a miracle cure. Now, maybe not. I will explain my new found reason for not completely dismissing fasting, but first a little about last week. If you follow Evolution Coaching on Facebook you would have seen my videos and daily diet posts, and …
Age well
There is no reason to not be active. I don’t even mean don’t be sedentary. Please don’t be sedentary. I mean exercise. Yes, be active and keep moving. We are meant to move. Especially if you are interested in aging well. I bet you are because who wants to age badly? Do you want to improve your health span? The …
Carbs boost your immune system
You may have heard the advice about exercising when you are sick? If your symptoms are from the ears down, don’t exercise. Symptoms from the ears up, you are probably okay to do an easy workout. If you have a fever, don’t exercise at all. If you are feeling a little under the weather, it may be a good day …
Weight loss, wearable tech and your ideas
Thanks for all your great responses about why wearable tech doesn’t equal weight loss. Part 1 is the original post and your answers are included in Part 2. Part 1 You have heard it before, exercise does not equal weight loss, but there is a new finding in exercise and weight loss. A two-year study, of almost 500 adults, between the …
It’s complicated
Being healthy and fit shouldn’t be so complicated. However, there are a few misconceptions about health and fitness that won’t seem to go away. A common misconception is the that being thin equals being healthy. Another, that if you are fit, you are healthy, and you can eat whatever you like. These are fallacies. Being thin and exercising doesn’t mean …
No time. No problem.
The most common excuse for not exercising is “I don’t have enough time.” That isn’t going to cut it anymore. Dr Martin Gibala, Kinesiology professor at McMaster University and author of the One Minute Workout, has spent a lot of time figuring out what is the least you can do and still get the benefits of exercise. However, there is …
Things that make you go hmmm?
Two new studies about exercise and eating were published this week and both make me go hmm? The first, Exercise is Not the Key to Weight Control. No kidding. But, for anyone who has been on a treadmill for 30 minutes only to see that you burned 300 calories (or less), about the same as a tall, no whip, 2% …
Super Stats
Did you watch the Super Bowl on Sunday? Go to a Super Bowl party? Indulge in some Super Bowl food? You are not alone. Super Bowl ratings are high and so is the food consumption. For a three hour, or more, broadcast that is just over 8% (about 12 minutes) of actual play, the calories consumed are more than any …
Get smart
When I was in university the school calendar had a joke printed inside that said, “How do Human Kinetics students study? Run extra laps? Lift heavier weights?” When I graduated from UBC one of my relatives saw my grad photo and laughed, they said “why do they have you sitting in front of all those books, you didn’t go to …
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