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Top 5 Reasons to Eat Healthy
30 March 2015 A diet built on a foundation of healthy food choices has plenty of benefits including weight loss, increased energy and disease prevention. A healthy diet allows you to eat unhealthy...
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Difference Between Added Sugar and Natural Sugar
27 April 2015 Preface: sugar is all the same. Whether it was adding in during processing or already present, the word sugar refers to a carbohydrate in its most basic form. There really is no [as far...
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Things That Annoy Me - #5: People Who Don't Follow Basic Gym Etiquette
11 May 2015 The gym brings together people with different backgrounds, perspectives and goals. While we don't need to agree on what the best workout routine is (because there is no such thing), or...
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Top 5 Ways to Burn Fat
17 August 2015 Body fat is excess energy. When you consume more energy than you burn over a long period of time, you gain weight. This calorie surplus, when combined with physical inactivity, leads to...
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Blog: Weight Gainers are a Waste of Money
08 September 2015 Before I started working out and eating (relatively) healthy, I was a skinny 18 year old weighing [almost] 120 pounds. Once I started lifting weights, I got obsessed with ditching my...
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All Things Vegetarian
09 March 2016 I had my last piece of meat in November 2013; it was a Fillet-O-Fish from McDonald's. It probably wasn't the best "last meal" but it was still pretty good either way. Since then, I've...
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How to Become a Vegetarian (or at least how I did it)
09 March 2016 I had my last piece of meat in November 2013 and haven't looked back since. I'm not going to pretend the transition was easy; the November 2013 transition was actually my second and more...
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Fiber: Soluble vs Insoluble
14 March 2016 Fiber is a special type of carbohydrate which the body lacks the ability to digest. Though we do not absorb any calories from fiber, it is an important nutrient which aids in many bodily...
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Top 5 Benefits of Fiber
20 March 2016 To say fiber is important is an understatement. This under-eaten nutrient prevents and treats digestive problems, lowers disease risk, increases satiety and even aids weight loss....
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Sodium - Effects, Sources, Recommendations & Lowering Strategies
23 March 2016 What we commonly refer to as table salt is made up of two elements (sodium and chlorine) and known as sodium chloride. Though a high sodium intake is associated with adverse health...
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Benefits of Strength Training
28 March 2016 Strength training, commonly known as picking heavy things up and putting heavy things down has always been thought of as an activity relegated to the bodybuilders, power lifters and...
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Exercise and the Elderly - Benefits and Recommendations
30 March 2016 Everyone benefits from physical activity: young, old, fat, skinny, healthy and sick. While younger individuals tend to ignore health benefits in favor of the aesthetic nature of exercise,...
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Overview of Sugar Part 1 - Definition & Sources
06 April 2016 Sugar is addictive, bad for you in large quantities and makes everything it touches delicious. Sugar is a type of carbohydrate found naturally in some foods such as fruits and vegetables,...
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Overview of Sugar Part 2 - Effects, Recommendations & Lowering Strategies
07 April 2016 Americans' intake of sugar is way too high and it has no real value in the diet. We use sugar for energy which is the extent of what it's good for. Too much sugar leads to very serious...
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Relevant or Outdated? The 3,500 Calorie Weight Loss Rule
12 April 2016 In 1958, a now infamous study concluded one pound of body fat was equal to 3,500 calories. It's been conventional diet wisdom for over half a century: a 3,500 calorie increase or...
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Holiday Weight Gain
17 December 2017 The Holiday Season isn't known for the healthy environment it creates. Three plates of turkey, mashed potatoes, and stuffing, plus dessert has to go somewhere. Surely these calorie...
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New Year's Resolutioners Gym Etiquette Guide
03 January 2018 It's been referred to as the gympocalypse; the beginning of the year when resolutioners join the gym en masse. Having a solid resolution and being serious about change is commendable,...
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Weight Loss Without Exercise, Diet Alone
12 February 2018 Weight loss is supposedly simple math; if you expend more energy than you consume, you'll lose weight. The equation doesn't care much if you burn more, consume less, or combine both...
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