Here at FLIP'S we are striving to give our kids the best available environment for learning and exercise. We love learning more about our health and nutrition. So keep checking back to this page for a weekly health and or nutrition tip.
*Problem: Fighting the cravings.
*Health Tip: Crack an egg for breakfast. Go for a little extra protein first thing in the day and your brain will stave off the munchies later on. (According to latest findings from the University of Missouri-Columbia.) Former breakfast skippers who ate a morning meal with a side of yogurt showed fewer feed-me brain impulses and felt fuller.
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*Problem: You've been working out hard, and you've plateaued.
*Health Tip: Attention runners, and fans of other cardio classes: Building in 30 mins of full body strength training, or even better, switching up your routine during the week, keeps your body from becoming bored. Even strength trainers need to have muscle confusion to bust through the plateau's. No matter what your exercise of choice, the body is such a finely tuned machine, it becomes efficient at doing whatever you do again and again. In order to get better and quicker results, throw something new into your routine. And, accoriding to the founder of ICE sports Therapy in NYC, Marty Jaramillo, found that female soccer players who added stretching, strength training and other exercises to their weekly routines had fewer injuries than those you did not.
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*Problem: Most 9- 5 jobs today require less physical activity.
*Health Tip: Were missing out on roughly 100 calories of daily burn, which may be expanding our waistlines. Not to mention that fact that everything is at our fingertips between the computer and our smartphones. There are some things you can do, (even at the office) to make up for some of the deficit.
1. Find reasons to take the stairs. One trip up the stairs instead of the elevator burns around 37 calories.
2.Draw the alphabet with your feet, while sitting at your cubicle. (You'll strengthen all the muscles in your lower legs and I promise you'll feel the burn before you get to Z. )
3. If possible, especially for you work-at-home moms, sit on a workout ball instead of a chair. You can lift your feet off the floor, and get your core burning and still keep your fingers working.
