by Joan Kent | Dec 20, 2018 | Instructor Training
Food cravings would be no problem if they were for broccoli and kale. How perfect would that be? But those aren”™t the foods — or kinds of foods — we tend to crave, mainly because they don”™t cause much (if any) change in brain chemistry. Cravings tend to be for foods...
by Joan Kent | Sep 10, 2018 | Health and Wellness, Master Instructor Blog
I”™d like to ask for your help with an extremely important campaign. The campaign is to raise money for pregnant women with metabolic disorders: diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, low “good” cholesterol, obesity, insulin resistance, and more. These...
by Joan Kent | Aug 28, 2018 | Engage Your Students, Health and Wellness
A previous post covered ways that sugar can increase fat consumption. One way is that fat makes sugary foods taste sweeter. That may mean a sugar/fat combination tastes preferable to a sugar-only food, such as hard candy. Clients have told me that, when they eliminate...
by Joan Kent | Aug 11, 2018 | Health and Wellness
People often tell me stories about how they lost weight. The stories begin with, “All I did was...” and end with something like: become vegetarian (or vegan); eliminate gluten; “go raw”; or cut out sugar. A couple of these make sense, but others don”™t. Let”™s look at...
by Joan Kent | Jul 5, 2018 | Engage Your Students, Health and Wellness
This short post covers 6 relatively unknown — and odd — tips that can help us control how much we eat. Odd Tip #1: Hide Your Breakfast Cereal This first tip comes from Brian Wansink, PhD, who is well known for his work on food psychology and eating behaviors. His...