Wednesday, 22 July 2009

Exciting Developments at Sea Breeze Fitness

There are exciting developments happening at Sea Breeze Fitness:-

1.Write a book on getting teenage girls active through the use of boot camp style exercise classes. Essential reading...... and first draft ready very soon!

2.Set up 2 new Boot Camps. Alexandra Park, south of Ashley Road Parkstone, probably 9.15am, Tuesday and Thursdays. Central Bournemouth, 12.30pm, Tuesday and Thursdays. If you could be interested in either of these please let me know...... I will be launching them with some very special offers!

3.Nutrition with a Difference....... watch this space for details of a new nutrition course coming very soon!

4.Run a hardcore boot camp for 15-17 year olds at Creekmore Youth Club - this will be a real beast of a session!

5.Run a 12 week youth boot camp at Bourne Valley Youth Club September-December 2009 - 14 year olds and over, girls only.

If any of these interest you send me an email to maggie@seabreezefitness.co.uk.

Monday, 6 July 2009

Diet Soda DOES Make You Fat....

Study Shows, Diet Soda DOES Make You Fat...
by Mike Geary of “Truth About Six Pack Abs”

We all know by now that fizzy drinks/soda/pop are one of the most evil things you can put in your body... the nasty chemicals, the gut-fattening high fructose corn syrup, and a myriad of health problems caused by this carbonated cocktail worshipped by those that don't care about their health or body. Surprisingly, many people falsely believe that “diet” soda is in some way a good thing for losing body fat. In fact, I hear people all the time proudly state that they eat so healthy and only drink diet soda.

So let's set the record straight...

There is NOTHING even remotely healthy about drinking diet soda. In fact, I've even seen several studies that showed dedicated diet soda drinkers got even FATTER than their regular soda drinking counterparts.

Here's some findings from an 8-year University of Texas study that I had read...

An excerpt from the study author:
“What didn't surprise us was that total soft drink use was linked to overweight and obesity,” Fowler tells WebMD. “What was surprising was when we looked at people only drinking diet soft drinks, their risk of obesity was even higher.”

“There was a 41 percent increase in risk of being overweight for every can or bottle of diet soft drink a person consumes each day,” Fowler says.

OK, as if we didn't already know how bad regular soda was for us, and now they're showing us studies that diet soda makes us even fatter than the already bad stuff!

There's a lot of complicating factors as to why this occurs...

One reason is that the artificial sweeteners in diet sodas create a negative hormonal response in the body that increases fat storing hormone production and increases cravings for more sweets and refined carbohydrates in the time period after consuming the diet drink.

Another reason is that people may subconsciously think that because they are drinking a diet soda, that gives them more leeway to eat more of everything else, hence consuming more calories overall.

I've said this all along, but the bottom line is that if you're serious about your health and body, soda of any kind (and artificial sweeteners in anything for that matter!) should be avoided at all times, except for very rare occasions when you can't avoid them.

So what is a good alternative to diet sodas?

The best alternatives are good old water with lemon or unsweetened iced teas... you have plenty of options with teas - green, white, black, oolong, red... be creative in making your iced teas and you'll enjoy it more. Plus, you get a greater array of anti-aging antioxidants.