Fitbit and Amazon teamed up to marry Alexa app to a fitness tracker to make tracking your progress even easier and as some may also consider, fun. You can use it to play music, inquire weather and hear your health stats without doing well, anything, which is pretty ironic. Our integration with Alexa gives you hands-free access…
Sound as any other of our senses affects the way we’re eating and even our ability to taste food. Turns out the sound (crunch) that we make when eating might act as a monitoring cue while the extrinsic noise might affect our perception of salty and sweet foods. The researchers that studied intrinsic sound factors…
So there was a study published in the journal Medicine and Science In Sports and Exercise illustrating that people who exercise consumed less calories than those dieting, so if you’re looking for the ultimate appetite suppressant exercise might be the most effective and safest one. The researchers studied two groups of people one of which…
It’s so tempting to work out more often when you think it’ll speed up the results. On the other hand, working out every day may not sound realistic when you’re spending up to two hours at the gym and generally don’t sleep well. That’s why striking the right balance between work and rest is important….
Sitting more than 6 hours straight is bad for health. That’s a fact. But as it turns out (something, which I suspected all along) a standing desk isn’t much better for you than a regular desk if you plan standing for the entire 9-hour workday. See, standing has its own downside. Your legs get sore, it…
If you’ve been dieting and working out but your results could have been better, you might want to take a look at your lifestyle as a whole and make some changes. The further we evolve the more we sit it seems, so trying to get more movement into your everyday life might just give you the…
It turns out our muscles don’t run out of energy when we get tired. It’s not that we physically cannot continue to work out even when we think we can’t. It’s our brain’s preemptive shut down mechanism that allows body to conserve energy for what’s after the workout (brain doesn’t particularly care) and make us…
An independently funded meta-analysis study at the University of the Pacific found that avocado can lower bad cholesterol that is if you stop eating saturated and solid fats. Looking into 10 avocado studies with over 200 participants the research found that daily avocado consumption can significantly reduce total cholesterol, “bad” cholesterol, and triglycerides (type of…
Engineers of Stanford University and the University of California have developed a new fitness tracker that can analyze sweat. A small wearable device is placed in a headband and can determine hydration levels and muscle fatigue. Besides it can also analyze various biomarkers in real time prompting you to change the pace of your workout or continue what you’re…
Continuing the quest for healthy eating with a modern hectic schedule, I decided to address other nutritional problems that may influence your diet. After all it’s easier to justify eating danish when all veg and fruit in your fridge rotted and you are feeling too tired to cook after work. These gadgets can help you…
