Health Advice/Discussion

[bmwracer]

^ That seems fine for fruit, but washing spinach and lettuce in soapy water?

[Tu_triky]

bmwracer wrote:

^ That seems fine for fruit, but washing spinach and lettuce in soapy water?

You're supposed to use a hair dryer to blow it afterward.

[bmwracer]

Tu_triky wrote:

You're supposed to use a hair dryer to blow it afterward.

Should I just take my leafy veggies to a hair salon for a cleaning?

[Tu_triky]

bmwracer wrote:

Should I just take my leafy veggies to a hair salon for a cleaning?

Hehe. 'racer shows up with a head of lettuce and says, "I'd like a trim please. A little off the top but keep it green. No high lights."

[bmwracer]

Tu_triky wrote:

Hehe. 'racer shows up with a head of lettuce and says, "I'd like a trim please. A little off the top but keep it green. No high lights."

And dressing on the side, please.

[Tu_triky]

bmwracer wrote:

And dressing on the side, please.

Would like you Italian hairspray or Ranch styling gel?

[Enna]

bmwracer wrote:

^ That seems fine for fruit, but washing spinach and lettuce in soapy water?

That is when you use your salad spinner.

Veggie hair salons & salad dressings coiffures! You guys are crazy!

[bmwracer]

Enna wrote:

That is when you use your salad spinner.

I do have an Oxo spinner.

Maybe I should just put all the stuff into the washing machine and run it in Delicates and Gentle Spin mode.

[Tu_triky]

Enna wrote:

That is when you use your salad spinner.

You're absolutely right.

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Veggie hair salons & salad dressings coiffures! You guys are crazy!

You're absolutely right.

[Tu_triky]

Two Foods You Should Never, Ever Eat After Exercise

Did you know that what you eat directly after exercising – typically within two hours – can have a significant impact on the health benefits you reap from your exercise?

Consuming sugar within this post-exercise window, will negatively affect both your insulin sensitivity and your human growth hormone (HGH) production.

A recent study in the Journal of Applied Physiology found that eating a low-carbohydrate meal after aerobic exercise enhances your insulin sensitivity. This is highly beneficial, since impaired insulin sensitivity, or insulin resistance, is the underlying cause of type 2 diabetes and a significant risk factor for other chronic diseases, such as heart disease.

In addition, as HGH Magazine explains, consuming fructose, including that from fruit juices, within this two-hour window will decimate your natural HGH production:

"A high sugar meal after working out, or even a recovery drink (containing high sugar) after working out, will stop the benefits of exercise induced HGH. You can work out for hours, then eat a high sugar candy bar or have a high sugar energy drink, and this will shut down the synergistic benefits of HGH.

�c If you miss reaching HGH release during working out, you will still receive the calorie burning benefit from the workout. However, you'll miss the HGH "synergy bonus" of enhanced fat burning for two hours after working out.

This is an extremely important fact to remember if you want to cut body fat and shed a few pounds.

The University of Virginia research team demonstrated that carbohydrates are burned during exercise in direct proportion to the intensity of training. Fat burning is also correlated with intensity. However, the actual fat burning takes place after the workout, during the recovery.

This makes the "Synergy Window," the 2 hour period after a workout, very important in maximizing HGH, once it's released during exercise.

�c If you are middle-age and want all the benefits from exercise induced HGH, then apply this strategy."

Fitness expert Phil Campbell, author of Ready, Set, Go! further explains how you can maximize your HGH production by limiting sugar intake for two hours post exercise, in this article on HowToBeFit.com.

Exercising one hour a week and getting the same results as traditional strength training might sound impossible. However, University of Florida orthopedics researchers have developed a system that may do just that, and as you will read in my comment below, the kind of exercise you perform can dramatically reduce the time you spend in the gym while still getting better results than you did before.

The system created by University of Florida researchers uses eccentric (negative) resistance training, which capitalizes on the fact that the human body can support and lower weights that are too heavy to lift.

According to UF Health Science Center:

"Through a system of motors, pulleys, cams and sensors it adds weight when a person is performing a lowering motion, and removes that weight when the person is lifting. As a result, the body starts seeing loads, resistance, and forces that it doesn't normally see".

Other scientists have found additional clues that explain how exercise reshapes and strengthens more than just your muscles.

It changes your brain too.

In the late 1990s, researchers proved that human and animal brains produce new brain cells, and that exercise increases the process. But precisely how exercise affects the intricate workings of your brain at a cellular level remained a mystery.

However, a number of new studies have begun to identify the specific mechanisms, and have raised new questions about just how exercise reshapes your brain.

In some studies, scientists have been manipulating the levels of bone-morphogenetic protein (BMP) in the brains of mice. The more active BMP becomes, the more inactive your brain stem cells become and the fewer new brain cells you produce. Exercise reverses some of the effects of BMP.

According to the New York Times:

"BMP signaling was found to be playing a surprising, protective role for the brain's stem cells ... Without BMP signals to inhibit them, the stem cells began dividing rapidly, producing hordes of new neurons."


http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2010/07/27/the-growing-promise-of-shorter-more-intense-strength-training-workouts.aspx

[bmwracer]

^ Interesting article.

One thing I'm not clear on: Do you want to increase your insulin sensitivity?

[Tu_triky]

bmwracer wrote:

^ Interesting article. One thing I'm not clear on: Do you want to increase your insulin sensitivity?

As far as I know yes. People with diabetes have a lack of insulin sensitivity and that's why they have to take insulin shots to control their blood sugar levels. You want to have increased insulin sensitivity because the MORE insulin that your pancreas pumps out the more likely you are to store fat.

Insulin prompts the body to store fat...so if you have increased insulin sensitivity your body will need to produce less thereby minimizing its fat storing effect allowing you to burn more fat as fuel and lose weight.

I'm not a doctor but this is what I remember from reading up on the matter.

[bmwracer]

Tu_triky wrote:

As far as I know yes. People with diabetes have a lack of insulin sensitivity and that's why they have to take insulin shots to control their blood sugar levels. You want to have increased insulin sensitivity because the MORE insulin that your pancreas pumps out the more likely you are to store fat. Insulin prompts the body to store fat...so if you have increased insulin sensitivity your body will need to produce less thereby minimizing its fat storing effect allowing you to burn more fat as fuel and lose weight. I'm not a doctor but this is what I remember from reading up on the matter.

Ah okay.

Usually being more sensitive is a bad thing, but apparently not in this case.

[Jav_sol]

Tu_triky wrote:

high sugar candy bar or have a high sugar energy drink

Aren't these two things people should avoid regardless of exercise? I don't think these energy drinks have any nutritional value.

[Tu_triky]

Jav_sol wrote:

Aren't these two things people should avoid regardless of exercise? I don't think these energy drinks have any nutritional value.

Yeah I agree, most of those drinks are sugar water, caffeine, and maybe some vitamins.

[Kijinnmaru]

Tu_triky wrote:

Two Foods You Should Never, Ever Eat After Exercise

Necroposting this topic a little, but this is very interesting. This pretty much goes against decades of exercise studies and combined centuries of anedoctal evidence that says the opposite. In fact, the high-carb/high protein post workout diet is the cornerstone of mass building. Diets may be different, but high carb/protein immediately after working out is gospel. Of course the second half of the article brings doubts to how valid this study is; sounds more like a sales pitch for a workout routine.

[Tu_triky]

Kijinnmaru wrote:

Necroposting this topic a little, but this is very interesting. This pretty much goes against decades of exercise studies and combined centuries of anedoctal evidence that says the opposite. In fact, the high-carb/high protein post workout diet is the cornerstone of mass building. Diets may be different, but high carb/protein immediately after working out is gospel. Of course the second half of the article brings doubts to how valid this study is; sounds more like a sales pitch for a workout routine.

With respect to the post-work out meal, the published study in the article specifically references aerobic exercise not weight training for building mass. If you ingest a high carbohydrate meal after aerobic exercise and thereby spike your insulin levels which (prompts the body to store sugar as fat) and consequently blunt the production of Human Growth Hormone you are definitely hampering your body's ability to burn fat which is usually the point of aerobic exercise.

[Kijinnmaru]

Ah. That makes sense now. Weight trainers want that insulin rush post workout because it supposedly creates an anabolic environment for mass building. Not that they've ever proven that beyong anecdotal evidence. Seems to be the story whenever it comes to exercise science and nutrition.

What really threw me off was the second half of the article that sounded like a workout informercial: "Build muscle faster working out only once a week for 40 minutes!" The Eccentric Method(concentrating on the negative side of the rep) has been around at least over a decade, likely more. It's never been able to yield better results than traditional lifting; now it looks like they're trying to repackage it....again.

[shin2]

Kijinnmaru wrote:

The Eccentric Method(concentrating on the negative side of the rep) has been around at least over a decade, likely more.

Speaking from personal experience, over 40 years for sure; wouldn't be surprised if it went back at least to the beginning of when dumbbells came into play.

[Kijinnmaru]

shin2 wrote:

Speaking from personal experience, over 40 years for sure; wouldn't be surprised if it went back at least to the beginning of when dumbbells came into play.

Wouldn't doubt it. My iron pumping experience is only a little over a decade. Being a "hardgainer" I've looked at many a workout routine, theory, philosophy, etc. One of those was the "eccentric method". While a piece of the puzzle, an eccentric-focused routine has never been demonstrated to be effective alone, and offers little benefit to the concentric lift. Guess it seems these things keep coming back every decade or so as "revolutionary".