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Hey, It’s All About the Calories, Right? Not! | Poliquin Lifestyle Article Re-Post

Food is Fuel! Dave Reddy
What are you putting in your tank?

‘Course that ignores all the other things that sugar does besides provide (empty) calories: like raise blood sugar, depress the immune system, rob the body of calcium and use up mineral stores. But that’s another story.

This quote (from the article linked to below) is referring to the idea that all you need to do is “burn” more calories than you eat to lose weight. If only it was that simple. trainers and weight loss coaches would have degrees in Mathematics instead of Anatomy & Physiology.

I stumbled upon this enlightening (and pretty short and sweet) article reiterating the problem with counting calories, both when eating and “burning” calories in your attempts to lose or manage your weight.

Frankly, as with too many things in the fitness “industry”, you are being sold bad science … or at least outdated, short sided, incomplete science at best.

Check out the link below for more. In the meantime, remember, when it comes to your food, focus on these four things:Read More »Hey, It’s All About the Calories, Right? Not! | Poliquin Lifestyle Article Re-Post

Best Breakfast for Health, Weight Loss and Athleticism? A Few Awesome Options for You

A few organic eggsWeight loss is not simply about calories in and calories out. Otherwise we would have mathematicians telling us what to eat instead of nutritionists. Our physiology is simply not that simple.

Today let’s talk about breakfast. Beginning your day with these two keys for more energy and successful weight management:

  1. balance your blood sugar (hormones)
  2. fuel your body with a nutrient-dense breakfast that will get you through a great workout and/or a productive day at the office.

It’s All About Your Hormones

Building health, managing your weight and training like an athlete is about understanding and balancing (maybe optimizing is a better word) several hormonal systems in your body. Hormones are barely understood by most people, though we all know they are crazy important. How many times have you accused someone of being “hormonal?” Diabetes is a hormonal issue. What helped Barry Bonds hit home-runs? That’s right, hormones.  Are you feeling stressed about life right now? Stress hormones basically cause your body to store fat and waste muscle. Do you know how a healthy person knows that they are full after eating a meal? A signal to the brain from a hormone.

In an attempt to simplify, here are three categories with a few common hormones you may recognize:Read More »Best Breakfast for Health, Weight Loss and Athleticism? A Few Awesome Options for You

The Essence of An Egg: Joel Salatin – TED Talk (2009 Video) About Food Quality & Local Farming

“If we devote ourselves to sacredness in our vocations, the world will rise to meet us.” An interesting talk by an impressively normal guy in Virginia who raises livestock with natural, God-intended methods. He is an author and lecturer on the topic and shares several ideas for “healing our land and food” in order to revitalize our nation’s health. He is… Read More »The Essence of An Egg: Joel Salatin – TED Talk (2009 Video) About Food Quality & Local Farming

More Evidence for Increased Fat Intake? (Blog Repost)

This is a repost from Mike Boyle’s blog (link at the bottom), though here is the article: http://www.ausfoodnews.com.au/2012/05/15/saturated-fats-may-not-be-all-bad-latest-diabetes-research-findings.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AustralianFoodNews+%28Australian+Food+News%29 And a comment below this post hits the nail on the head: The exercise more/eat less mentality combined with the low fat/high carb diet has been an epic failure. We need more influential strength coaches like yourself preaching this message! Keep it… Read More »More Evidence for Increased Fat Intake? (Blog Repost)

Time to Eat More Fat? (Interesting new article.)

“Just eat real food” seems to be the theme of reoccurring conversations I am having with people every day … and that includes fat – chicken thighs, egg yolks, 2% if not whole milk if you do OK with dairy, etc. Check out this article for more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2143477/Bring-butter–cheese-red-meat-milk-How-low-fat-obsession-harm-health-says-nutritionist.html?ITO=1490 Is it time to increase your fat intake? Does eating fat make you fat? This… Read More »Time to Eat More Fat? (Interesting new article.)