Random thoughts of a Disturbed Mind: We changed our minds...

Sunday, February 25, 2007

[We changed our minds...]

Every few years, medical researchers change their mind regarding the benefits or dangers of...whatever they are researching in.

Remember the time they said cell-phones can cause brain tumours? Now they say they don't. Remember the time they said Vitamin C was good for you, then too much of it was no good, and then saying again it's okay, since excess Vitamin C would pass out in your urine? What about coffee? They change their minds regarding that every 5 years or so.

Now it's antioxidants. Look at the cover of next month's Readers' Digest:

I haven't read the article yet. But I've flipped through the magazine, and I think they are suggesting that some free radicals in your body would be good for you.

Next month's Readers' Digest also came with a "health planner" insert for 2007. Isn't it like...2 months overdue? It was in conjunction with the HPB...Maybe that's why they're late.

Anyway, there's an interesting suggestion in the planner:

I've tried working out in the morning on an empty stomach. Not fun. I was tired much faster and couldn't even complete the distance I usually do. I was incredibly breathless and when I pushed on, felt like passing out. I did a search online, and it turns out that there was a time when people believed that exercising on an empty stomach would burn more fats because you have nothing else to burn since you haven't eaten for 6 to 8 hours.

Since then, the view on this has changed. Most trainers recommend not exercising on an empty stomach. If you have something to burn, you can work out longer, and at a higher intensity. Not to mention that if you have nothing to burn...You might not be burning fats. You could be burning muscles (they're supposed to be more easily "available" than fats as a source of energy).

That is the best of my understanding. Depending on what you read online, you'll be told different things.

Believe what you will.

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