by Joan Kent | May 24, 2016 | Best Practices, Engage Your Students
By Joan Kent, PhD Have you heard it? It”™s been around a long time: “How you do anything is how you do everything.” I feel sure whoever came up with that statement — bad grammar and all — never worked in the fitness industry, or as a nutritionist. How many times have...
by Joan Kent | May 16, 2016 | Health and Wellness, Instructor Training
I see it more and more often: people who know they eat too much sugar but just don”™t want to quit. Here are 3 reasons people seem afraid to banish desserts or other sugary foods from their diets. Please inform your clients and class participants. Fear #1: Not having...
by Joan Kent | May 13, 2016 | Health and Wellness
Do you get cravings at night? Are they often for alcohol, or for sugar? Do you have trouble getting to sleep without at least one of them? This post covers a simple plan for handling night cravings. Foods change brain chemistry (and more, but let”™s stick with brain...
by Joan Kent | May 2, 2016 | Health and Wellness
Are your mouth and jaw getting the food workout they need? Here”™s why we should eat — rather than drink — our food and chew it thoroughly. Chewing Starts the Digestive Process Digestion begins in the mouth. Saliva contains amylase and lipase, enzymes needed for...
by Joan Kent | Apr 18, 2016 | Health and Wellness
Many tips are said to stop cravings — for sugar and other foods. Recently, Judson Brewer, M.D. gave a TEDMED talk in which he proposed “curiosity” or increased mindfulness as possibly the definitive cure for a craving or an addiction — regardless of the type of...