Pumping Iron.

Saturday's post.

This time we bring you a study that relates Pumping Iron with smoking cessation.

Pumping Iron Helps Smokers Quit Without Weight Gain: Study

The researchers found that three months of pumping iron seemed to help curb cigarette cravings and withdrawal symptoms, while lessening the weight gain that sometimes accompanies quitting. Overall, men and women who completed the resistance training program were twice as likely to kick the habit as smokers who didn't lift weights.

I'm not an expert, but I understand that any form of exercise, not just lifting weights can help you quit smoking.

And yet, if they end the article by saying this:

However, despite "promising" results, the study authors noted that more research is needed on resistance training before it can be considered a clinical treatment for smoking cessation.

The song of the week: Iron Man - Black Sabath



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Stressed in the city. #FmoS

Wellcome back to Follow me on Saturday #FmoS.

For more than three months we wrote our last post in English. And we have been busy and we could not spend time with the commitment we made almost a year ago to write in the language of Shakespeare.

But here we are again, with renewed energy ... and the excuse this week has given us a good friend of the house, which is none other than @raquel_br.

Stressed in the City: How Urban Life May Change Your Brain.

City dwellers tend to be more stressed and have higher levels of mood disorders and psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia than those living in rural or suburban areas. And now researchers say they have uncovered certain changes in brain activity that could potentially help explain why.

The researchers came to their conclusions after conducting a stress test on volunteers while their brains were imaged with functional MRI to detect which areas of the brain were more or less active when the participants felt stressed. The stress was applied by asking people to solve difficult math problems, either under time pressure or while enduring criticism from researchers for their bad performance.

Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/22/stressed-in-the-city-how-urban-life-may-change-your-brain/#ixzz1QETSPBen

I've never lived in a big city, and now more than ever, apparently seen in this study, I am very, very happy to be born in a small town like Astigarraga (Basque Country), living in a small town like Andosilla (Navarra) and to educate my two children in a rural setting, surrounded by birds and without a single traffic light in the whole town, lol ...

A song for this saturday: Guns N' Roses – Paradise City

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It´s breakfast time.

Welcome to a new section in SobreviviRRHHé!

I'll try to write a weekly post in English, every Saturday, no cheating, using the Google Translator to a minimun.

Don't be too cruel with me, please!

The idea is to get a history in English, primarily related to health, and do as we do the rest of the week on the blog, make our comments in a funny way.

And how could it be otherwise, we begin with a story that sent us a few days ago our very good friend @manyez: Rethinking the Big Breakfast.

Many dieters believe that eating a big breakfast will help prevent overeating at lunch and dinner. But new research suggests that how much or little you eat for breakfast doesn’t change your eating at other meals.

As we have already bundled, years and years thinking that breakfast is the most important meal, thinking that you have to eat a good breakfast, a light lunch and dinner in moderation, and now it goes and it doesn't matter..

From now on, I personally I'm going to eat a big breakfast, a big lunch and a big dinner...

Why not? Because I'm worth it, jajaja...

Supertramp – Breakfast In America




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