Best Diet and Exercise Articles December 7, 2017

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

It amazes me how the gut bacteria and in the case of one of these articles your mouth bacteria can determine your body composition… However exercise alone can help… so if all else fails… get your exercise in! 

Nutrition / Diet

Mouth bacteria linked to obesity By: Vickie Isabella Westen

Amount of oral lactic acid bacteria could influence your propensity to gain weight… this is interesting for me because of how much your gut is involved… your mouth is the first part of digestion…HMMM

Exercise

Exercise alone alters our gut microbiota By Honor Whiteman

It is well established — and perhaps unsurprising — that what we eat affects the microbes that live in our intestine, collectively known as the gut microbiota. According to two new studies, however, exercise has the same effect.

Nutritional Supplements

Increased Protein Requirements in Female Athletes after Variable-Intensity Exercise

Women need more protein than men post workout! This is awesome… 

Fitness Tech

Best Wearable Tech, Smartwatches, Activity Trackers And Fitness Gadgets by Lee Bell 

As technology becomes smaller, smarter and integrated into everything, wearing it has become a social standard. Whether it’s smartwatches, fitness trackers or even apparel, the tech you can wear to keep tabs on your fitness levels is more popular than ever. But with so many fitness gadgets on the market, it’s hard to separate the good from the not-so-good. This article helps you do that.