Interesting food science/diet study.
Until now, evidence that the Mediterranean diet reduced the risk of heart disease was weak, and some experts had been skeptical that the effect of diet could be detected.
An interesting look at disordered eating and runners that I find not only to be personally relevant, but important for those I care about.
A study in mice suggests that exercise affects our circadian rhythms, and in turn our health, and the impact may be most beneficial if the exercise is undertaken mid-day.
This article was chosen for a discussion this week and though it is a scientific review article, I find it interesting in that it explains how much our Western diet choices are connected with the high rates of disease, cancer, and many other things wrong with our society. This article also talks about Vitamin D deficiencies (sun screen may actually be not all that great to use), pollutants and exercise. I’m a dork when it comes to stuff like this, but the fact that our society’s diet and habits are killing us and we’re keeping them anyways is a little bit disturbing.
Washington, DC’s taking a page from other cities’ book with a new prescription program for fruits and vegetables.
Time to start actually running on a schedule to train for a marathon. For the past two years I have signed up for a marathon on my birthday, a gift to myself you could say. Last year that gave me too little time to train, resulting in a subpar race time (though I finished the damn thing, so that’s something). Last year was about setting a huge goal for myself and getting it done. Too much of my Sophomore year was spent wallowing and thinking that I couldn’t get anything done that I set my mind to. This year, the marathon I signed up for, the Detroit Marathon, is not until October 21st. So that gives me, let’s see, eighteen weeks to train. A good amount. And this year, I’m running to pay attention to my body, to see what it can do, to make sure I treat it right. Especially after this last quarter’s drinking, poor eating habits and lack of sleep. And I’d like to improve last year’s time by an hour. Once again I’ll be running with my friend from Connecticut. She’ll be graduated and working, I’ll be stressed out about SIP stuff I’m sure. But this marathon will be something I’m going to look forward to, take a break for, and just go out and do. And hopefully do well at.
Goals for this month:
