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How to Know What to Believe About Nutrition Information From Health and Fitness Professionals
How do we know what to believe when it comes to nutrition information from those health and fitness pros at gyms or on the internet? It used to be that the only nutrition information the average person got came from their doctor or books (maybe I'm showing my age...
What You Need to Know About Dietary Fat
Ah, fat. The loads of opinions we hear about dietary fat (and nutrition in general) are conflicting, confusing, and kind of exhausting. People ask me all the time how they're supposed to know what to believe about nutrition in general. It took me a long time to figure...
How to Know What to Believe About Nutrition Information From Headlines and Studies
The internet has propelled us forward in many ways, but it's also created mass confusion with so much information. It's a free-for-all of bloggers (most with good intentions) and media sources and corporations with agendas. People ask me all the time how they're...
How to Lose Weight and Keep it Off
Weight loss is a big deal in America. A survey, commissioned by biotechnology company Gelesis, showed that 51% of Americans want to lose weight by diet and exercise, which is great! But barely half as many (25%) say they are seriously working toward that goal. That's...
Farmer’s Market Shopping Tips
It's finally Spring and that means the farmer's markets are reemerging after Winter in many places. These markets are my favorite place to buy in-season fruits and vegetables. That's probably the only reason I don't like living...
Taking Charge of Your Time to Take Charge of Your Health
Time is something we all have the same amount of and none of us can get more once it’s gone. That makes it one of our most invaluable assets in this life. "I don't have time for that." I've said it and most people I talk to say it. It's a common first thought when we...
The Surprising Gut Health and Mental Health Connection
We often think of our physical and mental health separately, but they couldn’t be more closely connected. In Chinese medicine, the gut is referred to as the second brain. That’s because it can operate on it’s own and it constantly communicates with the brain. It is a...
Do You Sit Too Much?
Have you heard? Sitting is the new smoking. The average American sits 6.5 hours per day. Those with a desk job are sitting even more, usually anywhere from 8 to 11 hours a day. As it turns out, according to many different studies, the average 6.5 hours per day is too...
The Truth About Carbs
What on earth is the truth about carbs? There are a lot of half-truths floating around out there about a whole lot of things in the health and fitness world, but the carbohydrate narrative is one of the most misleading. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica,...