31 Oct 2010 11:00 AM
It’s time to close out October and reflect if our time spent has put us closer to our weight loss goals. So how are you doing? Have you lost weight? Have you decided to get a new attitude? Have you taken the time to laugh at yourself and brush off setbacks and keep trekking?
This month we have tried to find fun and humor in weight loss and body image. I do hope a laugh, if in fact it was funny, made your day brighter. We also covered plenty of recipes for that fall beauty the pumpkin. I hope the recipes were helpful to you and that you will incorporate them into your holiday meal planning. Have you tried the pumpkin pie recipe yet?
MONDAY, Oct. 11 (HealthDay News) — Constant exposure to light at night may be linked to an increased risk for weight gain, according to a new animal study.
Ohio State University researchers found that mice exposed to dim light at night for eight weeks gained about 50% more weight than mice that were kept on a standard light-dark cycle.
“Although there were no differences in activity levels or daily consumption of food, the mice that lived with light at night were getting fatter than the others,” lead author Laura Fonken, a doctoral student in neuroscience, said in a university news release.
The mice exposed to light at night didn’t eat more than other mice.
Yesterday my family went to the apple orchard. We go up to the apple orchard every year. I find it to be one of my favorite fall places to visit. The colors of the trees are beautiful the smell of the apples on the trees is so tempting. Letting the kids run around and pick apples, pose by pumpkins and measure sunflowers is just part of the fun we have spending the afternoon at the orchard. After all the running around we stop by the store for cider slush. This is a great treat since there is no additional sugar added it’s just pure cider and crushed ice. To make up for all the missing sugar and fat burned picking apples we eat apple spice donuts. You can only get these at the apple orchard and it’s a treat we all look forward too.
, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) — Breastfed babies are much more likely to put on excess body fat if their mother’s diet is high in trans fats, finds a new study.
U.S. researchers looked at 96 women and their babies. Infants whose mothers consumed more than 4.5 grams of trans fats per day while breast-feeding were twice as likely to have a high percentage of body fat than babies whose mothers consumed lower amounts of trans fats.
The study also found that mothers who consumed more than 4.5 grams a day of trans fats had a nearly six times greater risk of excessive fat accumulation.