If you want to get as healthy as you possibly can, it often can be difficult to sort through all the conflicting reports out there: “Grains are good!” “Grains are bad!” “Fish is good!” “Fish will give you mercury poisoning!” The contradictions go on and on coming to you directly from so-called experts. Should you …
Continue reading "Nutritional confusion: Who knows what's right?"One thing that can be difficult when looking after your health and trying to eat the right foods that will help you burn fat instead of gain weight is snacking. Most of the snacks sold in grocery stores (and vending machines!) is really setting your health back. Potato chips, crackers, cheese puffs, and most of …
Continue reading "Low Carb Snacking?"I attended a meeting about the state of the U.S. economy last night, and what we can do about it. One of the ideas discussed was that our culture has adopted the idea that doing things for other people is the ultimate virtue, but doing things to help yourself (such as making lots of money) …
Continue reading "Are you your own priority?"I was listening to an interview on the Jimmy Moore show with Jonny Bowden. Bowden was discussing this idea that some studies will say they show that meat is bad for you, when in fact they are leaving out some important facts. You will hear things like “Americans consume too much meat. That’s why they …
Continue reading "What kind of meat do you eat?"Conventional wisdom tells people that in order to be healthy & fit, you must first focus on exercise. And often, the most healthy people in society are often thought of as the marathon runners and triathletes. So naturally, the prevailing thought about fitness is that you must crank out cardio workouts to lose weight or …
Continue reading "The challenge of going for what you want"I just spent an amazing 9 days in Costa Rica, checking out a volcano, horseback riding (1st time!), lots of hiking, zip lining (thrilling!), river rafting (class 3-4), and chilling out with monkeys on the beach. The week was so action-packed that I didn’t have time to work out, or even sit down and read. …
Continue reading "Keeping Healthy in Costa Rica"I was just listening to a Jimmy Moore podcast with former 20-year vegan Lierre Keith. She makes some very good points about vegan diets being too overloaded with soy protein, and often too low on fat and high on grains. I definitely would agree that a high grain, low fat diet would eventually cause health …
Continue reading "Low Carb Diets vs Veganism"In our interview with Mark Sisson, he revealed that he works out and eats healthy in order to look good. There is nothing wrong with that, but some people seem to think it is shameful to have personal goals of simply looking good! Perhaps the reason is that there’s this notion out there that selfishness …
Continue reading "What is your reason?"Over the weekend, I attended a talk/workshop on barefoot running with Barefoot Ken Bob of http://thebarefootrunning.com About 10 years ago, when I started reading Dr. Phil Maffetone’s books on fitness and nutrition, one of his chapters on running shoes really intrigued me. He made the point that we have been conditioned to believe that we …
Continue reading "Barefoot running: Is this new trend healthy?"Yesterday, Wes and I interviewed Mark Sisson of marksdailyapple.com. Wow, was this an insightful interview! Mark has a very non-mainstream take on fitness, but one that is backed by evidence and facts. The thing that I am coming to grips with is the idea that doing long distance endurance events is completely unnecessary in achieving …
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