TheDoctorsTV and Burning Calories: Good Long Sex, Lifting Weights, and Healthy Food Choices
This repeat episode of TheDoctorsTV featured Jillian revving up the ways to burn calories through exercise. But the star of the show was the subject of SEX.
Dr. Travis discussed how much and how long a person would need to engage in sexual activity to burn those calories from cookies, burgers, and other foods.
Avocado, chili peppers, celery, and sauerkraut were among the foods mentioned by the docs for various reasons.
TheDoctorsTV and Burning Calories Through Sex
It was a surprise to Jillian to learn that it would take around 45 minutes to burn off the calories from a single snack. Who could endure that?
Look…it is unrealistic to expect to have enough sex to make up for eating junk food. You might as well change your choices and eat food that supports your health and improves your sexual performance simultaneously. That’s the ticket!
The doctors and Jillian suggested some foods for better sex, but they left out the most valuable foods we know of that nourish the Kidney Chi and the reproductive system. Oh, well, they’re doctors and not experts when it comes to food and nutrition…
The first time this episode aired we gave you some idea of which foods are ideal for supporting healthy sexuality. There are also foods which are perfectly suited for being oriented toward burning more calories.
Thermogenic foods are often suggested for boosting metabolism and stimulating the use of calories to accomplish this task. Hot or warming foods are generally among those which are considered more effective in this process. Spices and spicy foods like peppers are the most common choices and the easiest to find at the grocery store.
But no one is telling you that foods with a ‘cold’ or ‘cooling’ nature can make the metabolic process sluggish. Dairy, iceberg lettuce, cucumbers, and other cooling foods slow down the body. A delicate Balance of cooling and warming and neutral foods is the ideal combination. For instance, organic brown rice is neutral in nature and when combined with root vegetables will be more conducive to efficient caloric energy usage by your body.
When you include spices like oregano, thyme, cayenne, garlic, ginger root, and rosemary; the body goes into action to warm the interior and encourage a strong healthy response to a dish like whole grains and vegetables.
If you want to shape your body into your ideal form while improving your health, then traditional styles of Yoga are going to do more for you than Jillian’s reconfiguration. Have you spent much time researching those who engage in Yoga for years? They are sleek, slender, strong, filled with vitality, and beautifully sculptured human beings! It doesn’t take working up a sweat to accomplish that, even though ‘hot yoga’ is a new trend.
Dr. Drew talked briefly about celery as a phermone-releasing food that encourages sexual responsiveness. Dr. Jim thought that a fragrance with celery would do the trick. Alas, there are phermones that you can spritz on your body to elicit a response in people that can be perceived as exuding sexual energy. When you eat a healthy whole foods diet, your sexual energy will be intact and you will be more formidable in bed than ever before…
But sex is not a sporting event! The doctors, especially Dr. Travis equates it far too often with peak performance in an athlete. Intimacy doesn’t demand the expenditure of a lot of energy or the burning of hundreds of calories to be satisfying and fully gratifying. Let’s be realistic here. A loving gaze into your partner’s eyes is far more sexually pleasing that pumping for mindless minutes… Burning calories during sexual activity should be the furthest thing from you mind!
Lifting weights, working out in the gym, going for walks, riding your bike, skiing, swimming, playing tennis or golf, climbing mountains, kayaking down a wild river, repelling off the face of a steep cliff. These are the things that will burn calories and be exhilarating… But the smart thing to do is to eat healthy foods AND be physically active. Live your Life! Counting calories will be one of the last things on your mind, yet your body will support your active Lifestyle and keep you in good shape.
