Do you know how much sugar is in beverages? Starbucks Grande Caffe Mocha, Pepsi, Lipton Iced Tea, 7-Up, Coke, Mountain Dew, Vitamin Water, Minute Maid Lemonade, Sunkist Orange Soda, Tropicana Twister Orange Soda, McDonalds Frappe Mocha all have one thing in common. They all have a lot of sugar. For reference, 4 grams of sugar is equal to one teaspoon. …
For best results, believe.
How you feel about exercise makes a difference. Your mind and your body aren’t separate. If you haven’t given it much thought, now might be the time to change your mind. New research has shown that you can think yourself fit. Don’t get too excited you still have to be active, but how you think about it can make a big …
What if you were a vegan for one day?
Do you follow a plant-based, whole foods diet? Would you consider yourself a vegan? Do you eat more plant-based meals during the week than any other type? How would you describe your regular eating habits? What you eat is one of the most important ways that you can influence your health. Your health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is a significant …
More good news
It’s all good news this week. Today, three good news stories about the benefits of three different types of exercise. Yoga improves your brain function. Stretching before exercise interferes with your athletic performance, but don’t count out the brain benefits of doing yoga. Older woman that practice yoga have increased cortical thickness in areas of their brain responsible for …
Good news
One of the questions I am most commonly asked is, “Do you ever run out of ideas for the facts?” No. There is always something new about fitness, health and nutrition. Sometimes they aren’t that interesting and normally in the summer the research slows down and I have to search a bit longer for something that may seem relevant. Not …
Stretching it
Feeling tight and inflexible? You might think you should stretch more? If you like to stretch, go ahead, if you don’t, it won’t make much of a difference, unless you want to perform better. Then don’t stretch. There is a corresponding 5 – 7.5% decrease in performance after you hold a stretch. 5% is the difference between Usain Bolt winning a race …
Muscles ask for energy
Muscles need energy to produce power. They use energy all day long and when we sleep our muscles recover and use less energy. Sounds simple, but new research has shown that muscles can request more energy from fat cells. We know a lot about our anatomy and physiology, but this is new. Jason Karpac, PhD, assistant professor at the College …
Performance Enhancing Drugs
If your job was to win races would you be willing to break the rules? Would you take performance enhancing drugs? Would you use ergogenic or performance enhancing aids? July means the Tour de France and many people associate cycling with performance enhancing drugs, while this may be true it is not limited to professional cycling. It appears that more …
You can make a difference
There is a lot of news about how good exercise is for us, but for many people that doesn’t make much difference. There is often a gap between knowing and doing. There is no magic age to start being active, it should be a normal part of your day. There also isn’t age when you get to “retire” from exercise. If …
High fat infection
Your guts don’t like high-fat foods. New research has shown that when you eat high-fat foods your intestines react as if they were fighting a virus. They increase production of immune cells and increase inflammation in your body. We know that being overweight can cause inflammation in the liver and fat cells which also leads to type 2 diabetes and …
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