All Entries Tagged With: "eating"
Guidelines To Healthy Eating – Part 2
The phrase “You are what you eat” is only partly true. If you think of your body as a finely tuned engine and food as fuel, if you are not adequately digesting your food and absorbing the nutrients from it then you are not going to be sufficiently “fuelling” your body.
Eating Disorders – Cause and Control
We still don’t understand what controls our normal eating habits, or exactly what goes wrong in anorexia and bulimia. All sorts of factors affect our appetite, from chemicals released deep in the brain, to mood, cultural beliefs and social habits.
Controlling My Appetite
Question:
I have commenced running recently completing 12-15k over a week and I am enjoying the challenge and am beginning to feel the benefits on my health. However I am finding the exercise is giving me a very large appetite and I am nearly always hungry.
Given that I would like to use my running for weight management [...]
Running with an Eating Disorder
I am recovering from anorexia (15 year history of it) and use to over exercise. Now, I am almost at a healthy weight and run for an hour four times a week and power walk for about 2 hours in total.
I would like to know what the sensible amount of exercise is in order to stay toned and fit,
Eating Before a Race
What is a good menu in the days leading up to a Marathon? Ratio of Carbohydrates v Protein etc and any foods better than others?
Training and Metabolism
Question:
About a year ago I saw a nutritionist who advised me on healthier eating and suggested I take up speed walking. I lost a lot of weight (3.5 stone), eventually became a little bored of speed walking and took up running, following a beginners programme. I would be glad to lose another 10-15 pounds. How [...]
