What if I told you that most exercise does not cause long term weight loss? This is a secret the fitness industry of gadgets, DVDs, and commercial fitness clubs don’t want you to know. In their defense though, few of them may understand just how wrong they are and why. Let’s start with a simple […]
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A common nutrition plan we use with clients involves rotating low carb days with higher carb days. Low carb days revolve around meat and veggies with plenty of healthy fats. The low carb day is very easy to follow. The high carb day can be more complicating because a cheat day is often misinterpreted. A […]
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First off, congratulations if you understood my pun. Folic acid or Folate is also known as vitamin B9. The name Folate derived from foliage refers to the common source of B9, green leafy vegetables. Folic acid is one of those vitamins that is really valued in the nutritional and medical worlds. The one thing every […]
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If you look on the back of a vitamin or food package you will see that ingredients are rated as a percent daily value. The macronutrients (fats, carbohydrates, and protein) ratios are under the assumption of a person consuming a 2000 calorie per day diet. The micro nutrients (mostly vitamins and minerals) do not consider […]
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Minerals like zinc and magnesium are necessary for us to properly use energy, detoxify our bodies, and hundreds of other cellular activities that our body needs to go through each day. Because minerals are so important, you often see them in supplements either by themselves or part of a multi-vitamin/ multi-mineral formula. Unfortunately most […]
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Vitamins and minerals are essential nutrients that help you maintain optimal health by regulating your metabolism, hormones, and aiding in detoxification. They are also involved in biochemical processes that produce energy from digested food. There are many ways you may be depleting vitamins and other nutrients, creating unpleasant symptoms and even disease. Things that deplete […]
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The problem with body fat is that when you start to accumulate it in large quantities (more than 20lbs), it actually changes your physiology and makes it harder to get rid of. The more overweight you are, the more likely you are to gain even more fat because adipose tissue in abundance makes you fatter! […]
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If you’re wondering around the health section at your local grocer, it will be hard not to find a product toting Agave nectar. The ads for agave nectar consist of claims that it is low glycemic and safe for diabetics. Some even make far fetched claims of antioxidant power or anti-inflammatory properties. The real truth […]
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Did you know that your body is approximately 90% bacteria and only 10% human? From birth to death, our gut health is affected by various environmental factors. New cutting-edge research suggests that simple changes in gut bacteria may actually lead to drastic weight gain and increase markers of disease! Here’s what you need to know to be on the right side of gut health for improved wellness and body composition…
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Part 2 of good cop versus bad cop in the fat loss hunger wars – this time we’ll focus on the ‘bad’ hunger hormone ‘ghrelin’. Ghrelin is the offender causing you to feel so ravenous that you fall spectacularly off the wagon and hammer down enough food in one sitting to feed a small family! Read more about ghrelin here, along with some strategies you can use to keep it at bay and achieve success on your diet…
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Linear dieting vs. cyclical dieting for maximum long-term fat loss…? Sure you might have an opinion, but what does the research say? MI40 Science Editor Rudy Mawer has done the legwork so you don’t have to…
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With an overwhelming amount of research demonstrating its benefits, ‘resistant starch’ blows away many of the sexier sounding supplements that have pride of place in your cupboard. To learn what it is, and how you can get more of it into your life with the aid of a few simple tricks, check out this special guest post from MI40 Science Editor Rudy Mawer…
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