Day: June 12, 2012

  • Why eating like we did 20,000 years ago may be the way of the future

    When it comes to our eating habits, it’s clear that we’re doing it wrong. We may be in the midst of health crisis, but there are few practical solutions for dealing with it. But now a growing chorus of people are claiming that modern and processed foods are to blame, insisting that we should instead…

  • Junk Food May Be More Appealing To Tired Brains

    A new study that used brain scans of people who had not had enough sleep suggests junk food may be more appealing to tired brains. Scientists found that when normal weight volunteers looked at unhealthy food during a period of sleep restriction, the reward centers in their brains were more active than when they looked…

  • Exercise: The Poor Man’s Plastic Surgery

    Rainy day here in Northern VA this morning. It certainly makes it tough to get up and get going at o’dark thirty in the AM for sure. The workout today was a good one — lots of keep going/met con sort of stuff for 15 mins.  Something I wanted to mention is that my abs…