These are the top health articles I find around the web that I think are cutting edge, cool, and just plain awesome!

Exercise

Why Exercise Alone Isn’t Enough To Prevent Weight Gain by Agata Blaszczak-Boxe

Exercise on its own — without also following a healthy diet — isn’t enough to help people lose or even just maintain their weight, a recent study suggests.

Nutrition/Diet

Protein and carb intake post-exercise can benefit bone health, study finds by www.medicalexpress.com

Protein and carbohydrate intake after exercise can have a beneficial impact on bone health and could help to stave off serious injury among athletes, new research suggests.

Fitness Tech

NEW WEARABLE FITNESS TECHNOLOGY FOR 2017 by fairfield residential

I think the new underarmour pajamas that help you recover are pretty sweet!

Food Supplements

The use of a Cissus quadrangularis/Irvingia gabonensis combination in the management of weight loss: a double-blind placebo-controlled study 

Find this as the main ingredients in the www.juniperlife.com supplement

These are the top health articles I find around the web that I think are cutting edge, cool, and just plain awesome!

As we are pretty much finished with the month of January, I wonder how many people are still following their resolution to get in better shape? I have always thought that if people truly wanted to get in shape they could! The question I would ask them is if you were to “win” one million dollars this week, do you think you would have any problem losing 2lbs? The difference is how people change their thought process. So maybe the best thing to do is to try and determine how bad you want it? How much it is worth it to you, and instead of “wishing” your results… think about it as if you were going to win a million dollars this week! 

Exercise

Exercise to combat metabolic syndrome by www.knowridge.com

This study shows that Interval Training works better to fix Metabolic Syndrome than weight loss or steady state longer exercise.

Nutrition/Diet

Exactly When You Should Eat Each Meal If You’re Trying To Lose Weight BY K. ALEISHA FETTERS

There is a lot of news/research out there stating opposing opinions as how often to eat and when to eat. What are your thoughts?

Fitness Tech

KC inventor’s Space Age fitness technology comes back to Earth BY MARK DAVIS

Where do you go once you’ve conquered space? Paul Francis has his eye on everywhere else.The Kansas City inventor’s SpiraFlex technology already has orbited the Earth in the International Space Station. NASA figured years ago that it was the right stuff for astronauts. They need exercise to fight off the debilitating effects that prolonged weightlessness can have on muscles and bones. SpiraFlex provides that exercise by using resistance instead of weight to work muscle and bone.

Food Supplements

Why Diets Don’t Work… New Supplement Company Promises to Target all the reasons

The most common causes of weight gain are overeating, unhealthy food choices, and/or lack of exercise. But for those of us who don’t ,match the reasons above, there’s likely more obscure causes responsible. Inflammation, stress, lack of sleep, illness, poor gut health, medication, and thyroid irregularities are all additional contributors to being overweight and devoid of energy.

These are the top health articles I find around the web that I think are cutting edge, cool, and just plain awesome!

Exercise

Music Motivation Found Most Effective In Increasing The Drive To Exercise By Duna Bil

New studies find that majority of fitness enthusiasts find music motivation the most important when they are working out. A research by SOCAN and Leger, the Research Intelligence Group, finds that music plays a big difference in staying committed and motivated in achieving fitness.

Nutrition/Diet

Change eating schedule to lose your weight by IANS | New York

Although this article shows that people could benefit from only eating during certain times (earlier) in the day, it doesn’t mention anything about exercise and eating around exercise.

Nutritional Supplements

Vitamin C–enriched gelatin supplementation before intermittent activity augments collagen synthesis by American Society for Nutrition

data suggest that adding gelatin to an intermittent exercise program improves collagen synthesis and could play a beneficial role in injury prevention and tissue repair.

Fitness Tech

Boltt claims to be the fitness tracker to defeat them all By Gareth Beavis

That feedback element is the most exciting thing here, as Boltt is claiming that its system is capable of monitoring your form during a run, and give you updates on how to improve your posture and effort. In short, it would be the virtual personal trainer most fitness enthusiasts, tired of paying huge amounts to a coach, have been waiting for.

These are the top health articles I find around the web that I think are cutting edge, cool, and just plain awesome!

The microbes of your gut are going to be the next big thing in nutrition, and diet!

Exercise

Unmotivated to exercise? Dopamine could be to blame by Ana Sandoiu

In many cases, willpower is invoked as a way to modify behavior. But if we don’t understand the underlying physical basis for that behavior, it is difficult to say that willpower alone can solve it

Nutrition/Diet

Here’s why a healthy diet may not always work by IANS/Washington

Gut Microbes and controlling them are the next BIG thing… Trust me!

Supplements

Seven nutrients important for mental health – and where to find them By The Conversation

Research literature suggests dietary improvement and nutritional interventions may help reduce the risk, or even arrest the progression, of certain psychiatric disorders.

Fitness Tech

P.E. is about to get more fun for kids with Heart Zones fitness trackers By Garrett Hulfish

When a student first walks into the gym, they grab a Heart Zones monitor and strap it to their arm or clip it to their shoelaces. Instantly, their stats are projected onto the wall for everyone to see. Students can see their heart rate, steps taken, calories burned, and more