You may have heard that calorie restriction diets, eating 30-40% fewer calories forever, can extend your lifespan. You might have also heard the joke that it doesn’t actually extend your life. It just feels that way. Other problems with a calorie restriction lifestyle, besides being constantly hungry, include reduced libido, infertility, very low blood pressure, cold sensitivity, loss of bone …
Sedentary athlete?
It is officially summer and surprisingly many people maybe moving LESS in the summer. You might be thinking, “don’t people get outside more when the days are longer and the weather is better?” Yes, they do. They may even be more ACTIVE. Walking, cycling for transportation, spending some time at the pool or the beach. But, that doesn’t mean they are …
Is a vegetarian an “all you can eat” diet?
Eating a plant based diet revs up our metabolism, an 11% increase over meat eaters. Vegetarians consistently eat less and eat more nutrients than meat eaters, but don’t take my word for it.
What numbers matter
What numbers matter? We measure everything. Weight, waist circumference, body fat, calories consumed, distance run, elevation gained, pounds lost, revolutions per minute. Age. That last one is a funny one. When we are young we believe we have plenty of time to get fit, lose weight, run, ride, get to the gym, improve our health and then we don’t. When …
Overeating leads to more eating?
Have you ever had one of those days where you just can’t stop eating? You might not be really hungry, but you just never get full? You might be stressing your small intestine. A new study published in Nutrition and Diabetes may explain what happens. When you overeat the hormone that signals fullness stops being produced. Uroguanylin, the fullness hormone, …
For best results, sleep.
Many people worry that not sleeping before an event will have an effect on their performance. One night of tossing and turning is not going to affect your race, but a chronic lack of sleep does. Results from a sleep restriction study on cyclists found that reducing sleep to 4 hours a night for three days had a significant effect …
Everything in moderation.
When it comes to diets, you may have you have heard this advice, “Everything in moderation” Maybe not. A study published in the journal Appetite has shown that moderation has quite a range of interpretations and the more you enjoy food, the more forgiving that definition could be. We are not that good at estimating how much we eat or …
Can you do too much exercise?
Endurance exercise is not going to kill you. In 2012 there was a study that claimed that intense, repeated, endurance activity caused the heart to become enlarged and could potentially lead to sudden cardiac death. It got a lot of press, people who didn’t like to exercise now had an excuse. “It’s bad to exercise too much” they said, “you …
Bright lights, better choices.
Do you make better food choices in the summer? It might be the light. The Journal of Marketing Research studied diners in bright restaurants and compared their food choices to those eating in dimly lit dining rooms. The results? You make better food decisions in brighter rooms, but eat slower and enjoy your meal more in dimly lit rooms. What could …
Will exercise help me lose weight?
Sometimes we think we haven’t been losing weight because we haven’t been able to do their workouts. While this is a popular reason it is not exactly true. Exercise is not a great weight loss method, especially if you regularly exercise, but it does help maintain weight loss and if you are just starting an exercise program it is a …
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