Did You Know? (Recipe: Scrambled Egg Muffins)

Did you know:

Research published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research discovered a link between core strength and actual running performance. For this study, scientists rounded up a group of healthy adult runners, and measured their lower-extremity stability after they ran a 5,000-meter time trial on a track. The participants were then split into two groups, one of which performed six weeks of core strength work, and the other simply carried on with training as usual. At the end of the month-and-a-half long study, the researchers had the runners repeat the 5,000-meter time trial. The core strength group logged faster times.

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Another study published in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise looked at 120 collegiate athletes, assessing various measures of core strength before their season began. In the end, weakness in the hips was tied to injuries, leading researchers to conclude: “Core stability has an important role in injury prevention.”

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The relationship between food security and health is often bidirectional–poor health is both an outcome and a risk factor for food insecurity.  Individuals who experience chronic food insecurity have higher prevalence of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity.  Children who experience hunger in kindergarten had lower test scores in reading and math by third grade.  Shepard et al. estimated that “hunger costs our nation at least $167.5 billion due to the combination of lost productivity per year, more expensive public education because of the rising costs of poor education outcomes, avoidable health care costs, and the cost of charity to keep families fed”.

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Over the last twenty years portion sizes have increased by 60% for salty snacks and 52% for soft drinks.

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New research says that people in dense cities are thinner and have healthier hearts than people in sprawling subdivisions.  Norman Garrick and Wesley Marshall are assistant professors of engineering at the University of Connecticut and Colorado University, respectively, and have just completed a large study of how street networks might influence our health.  They looked at the three fundamental measures of street networks—density, connectivity, and configuration—in 24 California cities, and compared them with various maladies.  In the current Journal of Transport and Health, Garrick and Marshall report that cities with more compact street networks—specifically, increased intersection density—have lower levels of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease.  Garrick and Marshall have also previously found that people who live in more sparse, tree-like communities spend about 18 percent more time driving than do people who live in dense grids. Similarly, so-called “big box” stores in a neighborhood indicate poor walkability and are associated with 24.9% higher rates of diabetes and 13.7% higher rates of obesity. For the entire article, click here.

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Men tend to have more muscle than women, and because muscle burns more calories than fat, men tend to have a faster metabolism, too — anywhere between 3 to 10 percent higher than women, studies have shown.

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Callie, Envy and I played in a flyball tournament all weekend, but I’m too exhausted to write more about it in this post except to say we had a blast running with Go Dog Go (who also hosted the tournament)!  More in another post!  But to tide you over, here are some of the pictures of Callie from the Athens tournament in July!

Quote of the Day:

“We may train or peak for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.” -Albert0 Salazar

So, you know my affinity for breakfast for dinner. On a side note, look at these breakfast stats from The Food Network magazine:

Anyway, these Scrambled Egg Muffins were good coming right out of the oven, but I wasn’t a huge fan rewarming them.  They weren’t bad, but they weren’t as good as the first time around.  Obvs.  It’s eggs.  They are always better fresh.

Scrambled Egg Muffins

Ingredients

– 1/2 pound bulk ground sausage

– 12 eggs

– 1/2 cup chopped onion

– 1/2 teaspoon salt

– 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder

– 1/4 teaspoon pepper

– 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese

Directions

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large skillet, cook sausage over medium heat until no longer pink; drain.
• In a large bowl, beat eggs. Add onion, salt, garlic powder and pepper. Stir in sausage and cheese.
• Spoon by 1/3 cupfuls into muffin cups coated with cooking spray. Bake 20-25 minutes or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean.

Courtesy of Taste of Home