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Visit our booth at the largest consumer event for women, the National Women's Show, to be held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, November 5-7, 2010!  Staff will be present to answer any questions and book consultations.  Event details are as follows:

The National Women's Show
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
South Building
222 Bremner Blvd.
Toronto, ON M5V 2W6

Friday, November 5, 12 noon - 9pm
Saturday, November 6, 10am - 6pm
Sunday, November 7, 10am - 5pm

For more information, visit http://www.nationalwomenshow.com/toronto/index.html.

We hope to see you there!

The next spinning sessions are as follows:

August 20th
September 3rd
September 17th

6:30-7:30 PM
Gears Studio
176 Lakeshore Road West, Mississauga, ON L5H 1G4
$20 per session

Isolde will meet you there.

Registration and payment must be done at the Credit Valley Clinic by the Monday before each session.

Please call Ma'Anne at 905-820-0282 to arrange.

The next support group meeting originally scheduled for August 25th is now on Wednesday, September 1st, 7-9 PM. Please call or email to reserve a seat.

Guest speaker TBA.

Sleep More to Eat Less

Feeling hungry all the time? Wondering why you are not achieving your weight loss goals? Maybe you’re not getting enough sleep!

A newly published study has recently demonstrated that healthy young male subjects ate 22% more calories the day after one night of 4 hours of sleep compared to one night of 8 hours of sleep. After 4 hours of sleep, the men reported feeling more hungry before breakfast and dinner.

Other studies that have restricted sleep in adult subjects have found higher levels of ghrelin (which makes people hungry) and lower levels of leptin (which makes people feel full) in their blood. Restricting sleep may also lead to insulin resistance. Changes in ghrelin, leptin and insulin resistance may explain why these studies find higher risk of obesity, heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure in people who don’t get enough sleep.

What can you do? Get some sleep! Most adults require 7-8 hours of sleep a night.

References:
Nutrition Action Health Letter/CSPI July/August, 2110;
Am J Clin Nutr. 91:1550, 2010;
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 95: 2963, 2010

Inactive vs Active:

TIP: Give up 1 hour of TV per day. Make use of those lovely summer evenings. If you choose to sit and watch TV for 1 hour you will burn around 10 calories. If you go and walk 3 miles in the same hour, you will burn around 270 calories.

Keep on walking!!

Come and try out our spinning classes, they are great fun!
Sign up with Ma’Anne for our Friday classes on the 6th and 20th of August.
6.30pm at the Gears studio, 176 Lakeshore Road West, Mississauga.
Cost $20.

Isolde Spies
Exercise Physiologist