Category Archives: Nutrition
Research Recap – Sept 2015
As scientists dig deeper into the importance of our microbiome, new research looking at the beneficial bacteria in our gut, and the usefulness of a probiotic supplement, continues to surface. For instance, there appears to be a correlation with gut bugs and heart biomarkers (HDL & Triglycerides), that are improved with a probiotic supplement. Likewise,…
Top Vegetarian Myths Exposed
We can all picture a big slab of butter-coated red meat clogging our arteries, or decaying in our gut and releasing harmful toxins, because it’s been hammered into our heads since most of can remember. Especially when it’s the processed, factory-farmed, GMO-fed, antibiotic-pumped meat we wrongfully assume is all that’s available. Add the latest talk…
Research Recap – Aug 2015
With the recent developments in nutrition, you’d think pigs were flying. The government removed the restrictions on dietary cholesterol, and the unfair demonization of saturated fat is finally getting exposed. That being said, it’s fair to say that the memo still hasn’t arrived at a few million cubicles. Including those of the doctors and dieticians…
Did a Low-Fat Diet Burn More Than a Low-Carb One?
A few weeks ago, we were blessed with the latest instalment in the low-fat failure archives. And as per usual, the media is spreading the research like wild fire and misleading the general public. The study comes from the journal Cell Metabolism, with the eye-catching title: “Calorie for Calorie, Dietary Fat Restriction Results in More…
10 Red Flags You’re Unhealthy That You Call “Normal”
Doctors use symptoms to diagnose illnesses, and one could say a symptom is your body’s way of communicating something is wrong. The problem is, some of us have lived with these symptoms for so long, they’re no longer classified as symptoms anymore. They’re simply classified as “normal.” Many times these problems are treated with medication,…
How Much Whey Protein After Exercise?
Generally speaking, real food should be prioritized over supplementation. And high-fat solid dairy foods should be prioritized over liquid insulin-spiking dairy foods. But that’s provided you’re not taking part in resistance training, as the whey protein in dairy is the best muscle-builder going. With a long list of health benefits we’d be foolish not to…
Ketone Strips & Meters – The New Scale?
One of the requirements to following Live It NOT Diet! is throwing your scale in the garbage. Mainly because the number is useless – telling you nothing about your body composition (fat-to-muscle) – but also because it messes with your mental state – giving you the impression that you’re not losing (or even gaining), and…
The 3 Ways to Prevent Muscle Loss
Whether you like it or not, muscle loss eventually ends up on your priority list. With most going 40-50 years not thinking about it, until one day their doctor lets them know they have sarcopenia (or osteoporosis). One of the reasons we see a rapid loss in muscle with age is because of a blunted…