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In the news – Nutrition has a greater impact on bone strength than exercise

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Nutrition vs. Exercise.

This is a big part of most health/wellbeing related discussions in our household. I mean, the whole family, all four of us, each in our own way, are absolutely committed to learning and practicing a healthful, preventative lifestyle.

Our 10-year-old comes home from school and tells me how this one girl in her class is so very short and frail and not very healthy, and yet she eats too much candy every day for snack and lunch. “Could that be related?” she asks me – “Absolutely” I say – healthy nutrient dense foods are absolutely essential for a growing body, I tell her, as my heart is overwhelmed with love, joy, and gratitude. She is so young, and yet she understands. I am so blessed!

Nikita, our oldest, a junior in college, will call me and brag about fasting for 48 hours straight and feeling awesome and having way more energy. And how she breaks her fast with a great salad drowning in olive oil. She does not want my advice or opinion, she got this! She just wants my approval, and I feel so blessed and grateful again!

There is no point of speaking of K’s (my husband Konstantin) or my passion for health, fitness, longevity, and nutrition. It is our life. He always tells me that all the amazing benefits and improvements we see are due to his breathing/strength exercises sessions while I always comment that it all starts with nutrition. So this article is a little checkmark in my column 🙂

University of Michigan researchers looked at mineral supplementation and exercise in mice, and found surprising results—nutrition has a greater impact on bone mass and strength than exercise. Further, even after the exercise training stopped, the mice retained bone strength gains as long as they ate a mineral-supplemented diet.

The second important finding is that the diet alone has beneficial effects on bone, even without exercising. This surprised Kohn, who expected exercise with a normal diet to fuel greater gains in bone strength, but that wasn’t the case.

I quote from the article: “Combining the two amplifies the effect” – this is about our marriage and dedication to healing and wellness 🙂

via Nutrition has a greater impact on bone strength than exercise

 

To your health,

Elena

by Elena

In the news – Study: Not Exercising Is the Worst Thing You Can Do to Your Health | Time

A quick share for those who did not catch this article. Pretty cool – I like to know that I can not really overdo it as far as exercising goes 😉

So the whole point is that the more active you are – the healthier you are!

THIS – “Although it is widely understood that an active lifestyle can lead to a healthy life, the study concludes that a sedentary lifestyle is the equivalent of having a major disease and the simplest cure is exercise.”

“Cardiorespiratory fitness is inversely associated with long-term mortality with no observed upper limit of benefit,” the study says. “Extremely high aerobic fitness was associated with the greatest survival and was associated with benefit in older patients and those with hypertension.”

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The study also took a look at the risk of being overactive and found that “ultra” exercisers do not face higher risk of death: the research consistently found that the more a person exercises the lower their mortality rates

via Study: Not Exercising Is the Worst Thing You Can Do to Your Health | Time

I am going to hit the gym hard tomorrow 🙂 !!!

To your health,

Elena

 

 

by Elena