Should We Have Warnings on Restaurant Menus?
When we eat out it can be a challenge to identify the menu items where added sugars are lurking—a problem that could be rectified with warnings on restaurant menus that were more forthcoming on their...
View ArticlePlant-Based Eating Pros and Cons
With plant-based eating becoming more commonplace, it’s good to know the potential nutritional advantages and disadvantages of this dietary lifestyle. In a systematic review of 141 observational and...
View ArticleWeight Stigma Among Teens
In addition to the problem of inactive teens, new research finds that weight stigma causes harm, and that those from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds and lower socioeconomic groups experience more...
View ArticleStrength Training for Youth
If you train kids, are you including youth strength training activities? Leading researchers encourage the sharing of well-established, evidence-based information of the benefits of resistance training...
View ArticleBehavioral Disorders and Excessive Sugar
Here’s another concern related to eating too much added sugar: It may alter how some people behave. In a study in Evolution and Human Behavior, people with a genetic predisposition to behavioral...
View ArticlePassive Overeating
Perhaps humans aren’t passive overeaters after all. A watershed study, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, challenges the common view that people are prone to mindlessly overeating...
View ArticleDentures Impact Nutrition
Here is an under-the-radar reason why some older people may have inadequate nutritional status: They are chomping down on their meals with dentures. An investigation in the Journal of Prosthodontics...
View ArticleNew Vitamin D Food: Tomatoes
Vitamin D helps strengthen our bones and immune system, but there are few reliable Vitamin D food sources (such as fish and fortified milk), and that’s a big reason why so many Americans have low...
View ArticleGut Microbiome and Athletic Performance
New findings add light to the importance of a healthy gut microbiome and athletic performance. University of California Riverside researchers conducted a study on mice to tease out the relationship...
View ArticleWeight Loss Mindset
Weight loss mindset may be key to client success. Pay close attention to mindset when coaching clients who are trying to lose weight and who struggle with behavior-change issues. In a large-scale study...
View ArticleLong COVID and Wellness
Here’s more good news about the value of exercise in relation to the pandemic: Exercise may counter psychological and metabolic aspects of prolonged stress experienced by people with “long COVID,” as...
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Toward Keeping Our Planet Fit
This issue marks the first time Fitness Journal has taken a deep dive into matters of planet sustainability and the action steps fitness professionals can take to effect change within their ecosystems....
View ArticleCooking Course Can Improve Wellness
There was a good reason why Julia Child always seemed to be in an upbeat mood. A study in Frontiers in Nutrition found people who participated in a 7-week healthy cooking course using a mobile food...
View ArticleFood Advertising for Children
In a World Health Organization report on the extent, nature and effects of food marketing, it was revealed, perhaps to no big surprise, that food advertising is prevalent where children gather and on...
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The Power of Exercise for the Autism Community
Between the pandemic and the smart home gym revolution, personal trainers have seen many of their clients “virtually” disappear. While the market for personal training has clearly shrunk, there is a...
View ArticleTime for Stronger Warnings About High-Sugar Drinks?
When looking to improve nutrition for adults and kids, removing high-sugar drinks from the diet is a logical place to start. Can alarming images of health risks be an effective deterrent to the...
View ArticleSeasonal Time Changes and Performance
A lot of people dread the seasonal time changes, and there’s a lot of debate about the consequences of the practice. If you’ve ever noticed a change in your client’s performance around the spring time...
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Lessons From Kenyan Runners
“I train 30 kilometers [18.6 miles] this morning,” Emmanuel Kipruto said in English with his strong Kenyan accent, justifiably skeptical of my command of Swahili. It’s 10 a.m., and we just sat down for...
View ArticleBreast Cancer Survivors Benefit From Strength Training
Women who undergo chemotherapy for breast cancer often experience negative side effects that greatly impact mental and physical well-being, reducing life quality. Researchers wanted to find out how...
View ArticleCorrective Ex and Pumpkin Spice?
You might wonder how corrective ex and pumpkin spice got paired in this article’s headline. This may explain it: That Fall snap is in the air, which can only mean one thing: We’re going to be...
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