{"id":123685,"date":"2021-11-24T12:23:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T17:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/?p=123685"},"modified":"2022-07-11T10:05:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T14:05:52","slug":"overindulging-at-thanksgiving-isnt-a-big-deal-advice-from-dr-evan-matthews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/2021\/11\/24\/overindulging-at-thanksgiving-isnt-a-big-deal-advice-from-dr-evan-matthews\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Overindulging’ at Thanksgiving isn’t a Big Deal: Advice from Dr. Evan Matthews"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanksgiving is a time when people worry about their food intake.<\/p>\n

But does feasting during your holiday meal make a big difference for your body? According to experts interviewed for a USA Today<\/em><\/a> article, not really.<\/p>\n

This is because an isolated event, like a big holiday meal, isn’t likely to disrupt our body’s composition, which does a good job at maintaining itself, explains Dr. Evan Matthews<\/a>, Associate Professor in the Exercise Science and Physical Education department<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He added, “We don’t gain fat quickly, and we don’t lose fat quickly… The things that are going to most impact your body composition are going to be a lifestyle. If you only over-consume here or there at special events, it’s unlikely that it’s going to make dramatic impacts on your weight.”<\/p>\n

He also notes you can also skip your Thanksgiving day workout. Instead, he suggests opting for year-long routine for your health.<\/p>\nRead the full, original article<\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanksgiving is a time when people worry about their food intake. But does feasting during your holiday meal make a big difference for your body? According to experts interviewed for a USA Today article, not really. This is because an isolated event, like a big holiday meal, isn’t likely to disrupt our body’s composition, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":123686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-23_college-news-and-events","category-espe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123691,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123685\/revisions\/123691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}