Active Kids Do Better In School
                                                                                                                          Middle school students who perform more vigorous physical activity than their more sedentary piers tend to do better in school, according to a  new study done by researchers from Michigan State University and Grand  Valley State University. The research is published in the August issue  of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, the official journal of the American College of Sports  Medicine. For one academic year, the study tracked more than 200 sixth  graders. For one semester half of the students took the general physical education class offered by the school, while the other half took part  in a non-physical education course. Halfway through the school year they switched. The researchers found that students taking the physical  education course did no better or worse in their academic classes.

“Physical education and activity during the school day reduce boredom and help keep kids’ attention in the classroom,” said Dawn  Podulka Coe, the study’s lead author who is now an assistant professor  in the Department of Movement Science at Grand Valley State University.. “We were expecting to find that students enrolled in PE would have  better grades because of the opportunity to be active during the school  day. But enrollment in PE alone did not influence grades.”

However, the researchers also found that students who took  part in more vigorous physical activities — such as organized sports  like soccer or football, or non-organized after-school activities such  as skateboarding — did approximately 10 percent better in core classes  such as math, science, English and social studies.

“The students who performed better academically in this study were the most active, meaning those who participated in a sport or  other vigorous activity at least three times a week” added Coe.

The difference between vigorous activity and moderate  activity is heart rate. Moderate activities, such as walking or raking  leaves, don’t get the heart rate up or make the person breathe harder.  Vigorous activities, such as running or swimming for exercise, increase  heart rate, causing the exerciser to breathe harder and increasing  oxygen to the brain.

With school starting back again, we encourage all parents to  take this new study to heart.  We encourage you consider organized sports as a way to help your child do better in school, be healthier, maintain the proper weight, and to build a foundation of health that can last a  lifetime. And don’t forget your favorite Wholefood Farmacy foods for  practice and game days!

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The Right Way To Exercise
Strenuous exercise will make you lose weight, right? This is a common  misunderstanding. Exercising can help burn fat, thus making you lighter, but it must be done in the right way. Aerobic exercise will burn fat,  but not in the way you might expect. If you are practicing something  like kick-boxing or running for half an hour 3 to 4 times a week, you are not burning fat with your exercise routine.

Your body uses glucose to produce energy when you exercise in the aerobic zone. The aerobic zone will differ from person to person;  it is achieved when your heart is working so hard to get oxygen to your  muscles (also working hard) that it beats at 70 per cent or more of its  maximum rate. It is because your body is working so hard that it pulls  its energy from the readily available blood sugar rather than from  stored fat. It is easier for your body to get to the glucose than to the fat. You are working hard and you are burning calories, but you  are not burning fat in the aerobic zone.

Eventually, you will begin to burn fat in the aerobic zone,  but this will only happen after the readily available blood sugar is  gone. Usually, it takes at least 20 to 30 minutes of working in the  aerobic zone to burn up all your glucose energy. After that, you would  have to work out another 20 to 30 minutes to burn enough stored fat to  make a difference.

What then is the solution? How do we lose this extra body  fat? The answer is simpler than you’d expect. When you’re not doing  anything strenuous your body burns fat. Walking is the most valuable and most effective exercise for healthy weight loss. Simply stated: walking burns fat.

Walking also uses your own body weight to build lean muscle.  Lean muscle burns fat. Walking every day, eating a balanced and  nutritious diet of whole foods, and drinking water to thirst are the  easy ingredients to successful weight loss. Let the Wholefood Farmacy  make it easy and convenient for you to enjoy the benefits of a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds, legumes and dietary  fiber.