Last week, Friday and Saturday, I had the pleasure of attending the first annual Ancestral Health Symposium (AHS) held at UCLA. I snuck in as a volunteer! I had such a great experience overall and wanted to blog some of the highlights here. There was a huge list of amazing speakers, and there were 2 …
Continue reading "The Ancestral Health Symposium (AHS) 2011"It gets confusing out there. What should one believe about carbs? If they are so evil, wouldn’t a no carb diet be the way to go? No carb or low carb….or SLOW carb? First of all, let’s assess why carbs would be considered “bad” to begin with. Eating carbohydrates causes your blood sugar to rise, …
Continue reading "No Carb or Low Carb? (or Slow Carb?)"You may have heard of all kinds of methods for losing belly fat fast. There’s doing lots of crunches at the gym. There’s cutting fat out of your diet. There’s “8 minute abs”. These belly fat trimming schemes have been around for a long time. But they’re not working! Otherwise, people would be getting thinner, …
Continue reading "Unconventional Ways To Lose Belly Fat Fast"I’m a big fan of eating a lot of vegetables. Even the paleo diet and atkins recommend lots of veggies to go along with your meat, despite popular misconception! However, vegetarians and vegans, who have lately grown in numbers due to the many books promoting these diets, have a big hurdle to overcome. How do …
Continue reading "The low carb vegetarian diet- is it possible?"Is it possible to eat fat to burn fat? One of the hardest things for people to get over when it comes to eating a truly healthy diet is that dietary fat is an essential part of eating fat for fitness and weight loss. One of the reasons for this is that the word “fat” …
Continue reading "Eat fat to burn fat?"It’s safe to say that everyone would like to have a diet that actually works to burn fat all day long. Instead of feeling like the calories you eat are just adding extra unwanted weight to your body, wouldn’t you rather create a fat burn diet? What exactly does a diet that burns fat mean? …
Continue reading "Can you create a fat burn diet?"I wrote a post about cheat days, which have been around in concept for a long time but suddenly become a trendy diet topic thrown around recently, thanks in part to Tim Ferriss’ Four Hour Body book. Some people agreed with my points on cheat days, but others were mad at me. They blame me …
Continue reading "Cheat Day: Everyone’s Favorite Excuse"My copy of Everyday Paleo, by Sarah Fragoso, arrived at the perfect time. I’ve been pretty boring lately when it comes to meals. Since I live by myself, I never think to create much of a production when it comes to breakfast, lunch, or dinner. A lot of that is not wanting to spend the …
Continue reading "Everyday Paleo Book Review"Growing up in an authoritarian culture, it is tough to get away from the feeling that you have all these things in life that you “have to” do. I had a discussion with a friend a couple a months ago who I raised this point to, and she came up with a couple of objections: …
Continue reading "Do you have to?"The other day, I was chatting with a former investment partner of mine. He’s a brilliant guy and works as a software engineer. He’s made a lot of money in his young life, and moved ahead in his career despite some odds against him. Towards the end of our conversation, he said he wanted some …
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