Work it out to Baltimore Club music!

By Briana Booker

I do not care what anyone says...Baltimore club music goes hard. So hard, it has gone global! Great work out music! Check out Back it up!

In fact, there will be a fitness coming on this blog sometime soon! But enjoy this until then! :-)

Summer to do list: Let's Read. Let's move!

By Briana Booker

 It is official. Summer has officially started. Although summer is a time for fun, we must make note to maintain our wits and skills needed to succeed educationally, personally and career wise!

  Research displays that a vast number of youth suffer learning-loss and acquire unhealthy eating habits( 1 out of 3 children in the United States of America are overweight) more often during summer breaks! In fact, children can lose more than two months in reading achievement during summer months!

So, how to help battle this issue?

The First Lady, Michelle Obama, strongly believes her new initiative called  Let's Read. Let's move. will make it easier for Americans to build stronger minds and bodies by enhancing opportunities to read, exercise and eat healthier during the summer months! Not only will it be fun,but the students will achieve success in the later months when school is back in session!

 I recommend children and adults read and collaborate community fitness this summer! I have always enjoyed reading during the summer and throughout the school year! In fact, I have most of the books I have read throughout my childhood to present stored in my parents basement! I hope to someday give them to my children and grandchildren to read!

 Reading is a great adventure when you are captured in the story line! And it only takes five books to combat summer learning loss!

As for fitness, a nature walk is fabulous and an easy task to do! Just by walking a few minutes over a couple of months, each day, has really improved my fitness and physical attributes! You can also do other means of exercise... try Yoga, take up a dance class, or hula hoop! Do what is best for you and have fun!

Over the course of the summer I will be posting on Mama treats, a sub section of the blog, healthy, inexpensive,but tasty treats you can eat throughout the summer and beyond! I also will come up with a great reading list for all to enjoy!

Happy summer and do not forget to spread the movement! Cheers!

P.S- Anyone else watch Reading Rainbow as a kid? Loved that show!

It is all in the gut. : Bacteria in intestines helps weight gain.

By Briana Booker

 You know when people say they can feel it in the gut? They might be right. There is something in your gut that could be making you fat!

Microbes in the intestines can influence metabolism and weight! 10 to 100 trillion microbes, most bacteria, dwell in our colon and small intestines! They work together to influence how many calories we can extract from food and how many we can make or burn in fat. A study on mice have shown similar associations in people with this finding!


Maybe someone needs to make a microbe-filled slim beverage drink soon?

Bacteria, historically, has aimed to draw the maximum calories from our food during the hunter-gatherer age. However, in our modern society of fast-food dieting this is less beneficial causing obesity and diabetes.

But  beneficial bacteria does many useful things for us such as preventing disease causing bacteria from taking hold in our body by filling up empty space in our bodies, digesting foods that we can not break down, producing vitamins, and discovering energy sources we can use.

 The issue with gut bacteria is that it is hereditary! Babies are born bacteria free and collect bacteria from their mothers and those around them. It is all about environment and genetic mutations such as hormone leptin. Leptin controls appetite and metabolism.
With that said, squeezing every last available calorie out of food, bacteria can influence metabolism to allow the body to store or burn less fat. If you can slow down food moving through the intestines, there is a good chance the body has more time to collect calories.

As for a slim beverage, Japanese researchers from the company Snow Brand Milk Products reported people that drink probiotic milk for 12 weeks lose weight! The company's study was published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition! Probiotic drink is a bacteria free concotion. The average person in the study lost 1.4% of his or her body weight for the average 150 pound person.This is 2 pounds in 12 weeks.

However, no researcher has admitted to knowing which bacterias help weight loss and a drink is not recommended at the moment to eliminate certain bacteriums.