Are Your Food Decisions Costing You Brain Energy?
Your brain uses approximately 20% of the energy you consume. All of your thinking, planning and deciding really does take up a lot of energy. The most energy-demanding work of your brain involves executive functioning. These are activities like: Understanding Deciding...
How to Find Out What Food Gives You Energy
Now that we’ve established what energy is, let’s talk about what energy feels like. In my last post I set the foundations of understanding what energy is. Before I went back to school for nutrition I thought “energy from food” was supposed to feel like caffeine. At...
Your Questions Answered: What do We Eat for Energy?
Because I work with busy men and women, one common question I’m asked is: “What do I eat for energy?” While popular media frequently alludes that one, magic food can offer the cure to everything from Alzheimer’s to cancer and make us young...
Just How Dangerous Is Sitting?
I was at the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Annual Conference in Denver earlier this month, where sports medicine docs, athletic trainers, physical therapists and exercise physiologists from around the world were presenting their most current, cutting edge...Striving for Higher Goals in Life? Expect to Fail, and Welcome It.
You need to fail over and over- until you get it right. Darren Steeves, Wellness Expert, says if we don’t fail, we don’t learn.