11/12/2025
Eat your veggies!
Sources:
Fiber. (2025, January 3) Linus Pauling Institute. Https://lpi.oregonstate. edu/mic/other-nutrients/fiber.
Cronin, P.; Joyce, S.A.; O’Toole, P.W.; O’Connor, E.M. Dietary Fibre Modulates the Gut Microbiota. Nutrients 2021, 13, 1655. http://doi.org/10.33990/nu13051655.
Cronin, Peter, Susan A. Joyce, Paul W. O’Toole, and Eibhlis M. O’Connor. 2021. “Dietary Fibre Modulates the Gut Microbiota” Nutrients 13, no. 5: 1655. Https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13051655.
Cronin, P., Joyce, S.A., O’Toole, P.W., & O’Connor, E.M. (2021). “Dietary Fibre Modulates the Gut Microbiota” Nutrients 13, no. 5: 1655. http://doi.org/10.3390/nu13051655.
10/30/2025
Have some antioxidants today! Pomegranates are in season now until the end of fall!
Source:
Pham-Huy LA, He H, Pham-Huy C. Free radicals, antioxidants in disease and health. Int J Biomed Sci. 2008 Jun;4(2):89-96. PMID: 23675073; PMICD: PMC3614697.
10/15/2025
One benefit of exercising, as opposed to dieting alone, when it comes to our weight loss journey is that an exercise program can help us reduce body fat while simultaneously preventing a decrease in muscle mass — a common problem during weight loss.
Schoenfeld, B. J., Association, N.-. S. &. C., & Snarr, R. L. (2021). NSCA’s essentials of personal training. Human Kinetics.
10/07/2025
Source: Schoenfeld, B. J., Association, N.-. S. &. C., & Snarr, R. L. (2021). NSCA’s essentials of personal training. Human Kinetics.
09/29/2025
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06/20/2025
If you prefer low impact exercises, resistance training can make our bones strong just as high impact exercises do.
Whether running, Olympic lifting, power lifting, body building, or bodyweight calisthenics is your preference of training style, they all include movements that can prevent or delay the onset of osteoporosis by increasing our bone mineral density.
05/29/2025
The eccentric loading phase of an exercise is an “especially potent stimulus for bone growth” making our bones harder, denser, and stronger.
Hard, dense, strong bones is the opposite of osteoporosis — a condition in which bones become brittle, porous, and weak, making them more susceptible to breaking.
Coburn, Kj.W.., & Malek, M.H. (2012). NSCA’s essentials of personal training. In Human Kinetics ebooks.http://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BB09600700
06/20/2025