Live Fit and Sore

Category: Health/Nutrition

  • Rise in Poor Immune Response Leading to Allergies

    New York Times Dirtying Up Our Diets Increasing evidence suggests that the alarming rise in allergic and autoimmune disorders during the past few decades is at least partly attributable to our lack of exposure to microorganisms that once covered our food and us.  This research suggests that reintroducing some of the organisms from the mud…

  • Sugar, Not Fats and Oils, is What is Causing the Obesity Epidemic

    Why are we so fat? We have not become greedier as a race. We are not, contrary to popular wisdom, less active – a 12-year study, which began in 2000 at Plymouth hospital, measured children’s physical activity and found it the same as 50 years ago. But something has changed: and that something is very…

  • Being Reasonable about Nutrition

    Food fascism and the 80/20 rule There’s no doubt in my mind that a Paleo diet is what we’ve evolved to eat. That’s hard to argue with. But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to be healthy while eating foods that are not considered “Paleo”, regardless of what the Paleo zealots will tell you. Some of…

  • Mindfulness Meditation Linked With Positive Brain Changes, Study Suggests

    Scientists have found that a kind of Chinese mindfulness meditation practice is linked with actual physical changes in the brain — changes that may even have protective effects against mental illness.Researchers from the University of Oregon studied past data from a 2010 study of 45 undergraduate students, as well as a past study on 68…

  • Movie theater junk food: Is it a menace to society? – latimes.com

    This editorial has some good points  — the food at the theater sucks. Water is probably the only healthy thing you can buy but the cost of it at the theater is crazy!   If you’re a parent concerned about your kids eating healthful food, where is the last place you’d want them to go?…

  • 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…

  • If You Want It

    I wrote this post as the final blog entry in the 2nd CrossFit Impavidus Whole Life Challenge —  We are now one day away from the end of the challenge. How can that be? 8 weeks ago, you were different people sitting in the gym learning about what was expected of you, filtering it in…

  • School Lunches: We can do Better!

    I make my kids’ lunches almost every day — Nate is gluten free so it’s almost a no choice issue if I want to ensure he eats properly and Hannah – is a picky eater and prefers what I put in her lunch on most days. I have attempted to eat the school cafeteria and…

  • Stop Being A Slave To The Scale

    Are you a slave to the scale? I will admit that I still fight this part of me. I don’t own a scale, haven’t owned one my entire adult life. Why would I want to spend money to own something and give space to something that has so much control over me that it can…

  • Work and Commitment

    When I heard the alarm this AM, I hit snooze and decided “today, is a rest day”. I am entitled to it and I am tired. Don’t fool yourself into believing that it’s ‘easy’ for me to get up. I love to sleep, I love napping, I love the REM stage, I love the feeling…