Karen Van Proeyen, PhD, a physical trainer at Respiro Health and Fitness Centre, Rotselaar, Belgium. Her research, which was conducted while she was a doctoral candidate in the department of biomedical kinesiology at the Research Centre for Exercise and Health, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, was published in Journal of Physiology.
Eggnog, butter cookies, potato latkes, honey-baked ham—such yummy but fattening fare is everywhere during the holidays. And though we know…