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How colas are real bad for you and the environment
Diet cola: what is the harm? Well, this article was a real eye opener: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/9-disturbing-side-effects-of-soda.html Some highlights: Danish researchers discovered that drinking non-diet soda leads to dramatic increases in fat buildup around your liver and your skeletal muscles, both of which can…
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Eco-sex: Natural Family Planning?
There have been great scientific advances to enable women to know their cycles and to regulate their fertility. This is not granny's methods of rythm or the calendar method, but the new methods that track temperature, mucus, sensations and other things. For those wanting to know more about them, Check out…
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Mindful Eating as a Meditation
New Article in the NYTimes TRY this: place a forkful of food in your mouth. It doesn’t matter what the food is, but make it something you love — let’s say it’s that first nibble from three hot, fragrant, perfectly cooked ravioli Now comes the hard part. Put the fork down. This could be a lot more challenging than you…
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The science behind gaining it all back
A great article in the NYTimes: "While researchers have known for decades that the body undergoes various metabolic and hormonal changes while it’s losing weight, the Australian team detected something new. A full year after significant weight loss, these men and women remained in what could be described as a biologically…
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Quotation of the Day
"We Catholics have powerful spiritual weapons at our disposal to defend against Satan and his snares, including exorcism, which is performed at all baptisms. But the "most efficacious exorcism," asserts Fr. Fanzaga, "is mortification." What is mortification? It is the subduing of the lusts of the flesh through ascetic…
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That wonderful brown fat!
Brown fat burns calories! And you get brown fat by exercising! Exercise, and the white fat turns brown. And if you are cold, it burns more fat by warming you up! http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/health/brown-fat-burns-ordinary-fat-study-finds.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=general&gwh=FCDAA7EDE7D3B42024C530681B2326DC
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High heels and exercise
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/scientists-look-at-the-dangers-of-high-heels/ Ever wonder what high heels to do your feet and how they might affect your feet when you put on your running shoes? Do you wear heels? Would you give them up?
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Should we all go gluten free?
New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/magazine/Should-We-All-Go-Gluten-Free.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all In the last three years, General Mills — best known for Cheerios, Betty Crocker and that wheat-filled Pillsbury Doughboy — has put gluten-free labels on more than 300 products already made…
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Daily Examen for families
Here is a great way of doing the daily Examen with your children at prayer time. Discuss these questions: 1. For what time or event today are you most grateful (thankful/happy)? 2. For which moment are you least grateful? 3. How did you show love today? 4. What was one time your actions or behavior were negative or you…
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Exercise makes our fat cells burn calories.
A newly discovered hormone produced in response to exercise may be turning people’s white fat brown, a groundbreaking new study suggests, and in the process lessening their susceptibility to obesity, diabetes and other health problems. The study, published on Wednesday in Nature and led by researchers at the Dana-Farber…
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How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/magazine/how-yoga-can-wreck-your-body.html?pagewanted=1&ref=general&src=me Yoga enthusiasts, check out this article. It give you good information on poses to avoid, and makes you more aware of what can go wrong.
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More science of Fat
http://youtu.be/cWzf8Y2ECqo In Programmed to Be Fat?, we will get the skinny on the science of fat. Premiering January 12, 2012 on CBC TV’s “The Nature of Things” with David Suzuki. Info here: http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episode/programmed-to-be-fat.html If you don't get CBC where you live, you can always watch…
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Best exercycle: your recommendations
I want to find a really good exercycle to replace my old Canadian Tire most basic of the basic version. I have a bad back, so I need a recumbent cycle. My question is, are you happy with your exercise cycle, and if, so, would you recommend it to someone looking for an upgrade? What bikes should I stay away from? Which…
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Lose Stomach Fat Challenge
I have been thinking all day about an article published by Macleans magazine about how eating wheat causes the build up of stomach fat. For those who don't know Macleans, it is Canada's newsmagazine and comparable to Time or Newsweek. In this issue, they interview William Davis, a preventive cardiologist who practises in…
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Less fat, more cellulite
I started at 204 lbs, and have lost 28 lbs. ; ) Inches lost around the waist, thighs and arms. However, my arms, in losing fat are getting a clumpy look. The skin hangs loosely, with big ugly clumps of cellulite here and there. I have the same problem on the thighs, but I'm less concerned because my thighs are not exposed…
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Fasting for Advent
I know that we are all on diets and limiting calories, but fasting has a spiritual dimension, and we are fast coming up to the greatest fasting period that isn't Lent: Advent. It can be a challenge fasting through Advent because of the Christmas parties. But when I was a child, this was a period in which we would all try…
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Aquaspinning
When I showed up at the pool today, our instructor lowered aluminum hydro riders into the water and we spent 20 minutes trying them out. Here is a u-tube demonstration. http://youtu.be/2h86kC_CcBw Has anyone tried this out? How do you find it for over-all fitness? How many calories does it burn? Myself, I found it…
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The Chemical Cause of obesity
http://www.mpbn.net/Home/tabid/36/ctl/ViewItem/mid/3478/ItemId/18497/Default.aspx This interview gives some indicators as to how certain chemical contaminants in our food supply might be causing endocrine balances that are making us obese.
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Wheat and Belly Fat
Interesting article on how the hybridization of wheat over the past 70 years has affected its nutritional values to the point where it is bad for us: http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/09/20/on-the-evils-of-wheat-why-it-is-so-addictive-and-how-shunning-it-will-make-you-skinny/
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Wonderful Vegetarian Recipes
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/series/recipes_for_health/index.html Check out the wonderful recipes for health section of the NYTimes for what is growing in the garden. Veggies need not be boring!
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Hurrah for good breakfasts
Up to now, Ive been drinking 2 coffee half and half's with skim milk, and letting that be my breakfast. I'm not usually that hungry in the morning anyways. Yesterday, I had a bowl of red river cereal with a tablespoon of raisins, 3 tablespoons of 0% fat Greek yoghurt, and a peach. I felt stuffed to the gills all day long,…
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Change your life, change your food!
http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=2476 A great motivational video on eating right!
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Who is using a pedometer?
I use a pedometer every day to try to break that sedentary habit. I'm a new retiree who had a desk job, and sometimes it is too easy to get on the web and stay there all day. From what I've read about pedometers, you need to do 10,000 steps per day to be active and healthy. Most days, in the house, I will average between…
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From scratch cook frustrated by database
I am frustrated by our database. I am relatively new here, so maybe there are some short cuts to this problem. I am a cook everything from scratch eater, with a hankering after Indian food, as found in the cookbooks of Madhur Jaffrey, where every recipe is sooooo good, but lists at least 6-7 spices per recipe. So in order…
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New Research on Waist Measurements
http://life.nationalpost.com/2011/08/09/why-one-waist-size-guide-doesnt-fit-all-ethnic-backgrounds/ Check out the waist measurements for different ethnic groups.
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Travel to Italy
Does anyone have any advice on counting calories while traveling and eating in restaurants in foreign countries? We will have web access to this site every day, but are wondering how to input what we eat. Any tips?
