by Joan Kent | Apr 11, 2016 | Engage Your Students, Health and Wellness
My last post covered food intolerances and the changes that occur over time, from the acute reaction to a more chronic one. The immune response to a triggering food involves a release of stress hormones, opioids, such as endorphins (beta-endorphin), and chemical...
by Joan Kent | Apr 5, 2016 | Health and Wellness
Before my doctoral program — which required me to narrow down to a specialty (sugar addiction) — I had studied food intolerances. Many books on the subject start with food reactions, then move into chemicals in our homes and offices, gasoline fumes, and more....
by Joan Kent | Mar 14, 2016 | Health and Wellness, Zone based Heart Rate Training
In a previous post that I co-wrote with Jim Karanas, we described specific physiological adaptations of aerobic — aka cardio or endurance — training. As you may recall, they include increases in blood volume, tidal volume, and stroke volume. The capillary network...
by Joan Kent | Feb 22, 2016 | Health and Wellness
About a year ago, I received questions from a man in my email community. They were good ones, so I devoted part of a seminar to them. “I want to know how food can create low mood and low energy. I mostly want a methodical way to fix things. I'm also interested to know...
by Joan Kent | Feb 8, 2016 | Engage Your Students
Some years ago (1997 to be exact), the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition featured an article stating that women”™s protein needs had been underestimated up until then. In the same issue, a different article discussed the higher rate of serotonin turnover in...