Intermittent Fasting works for fat loss. We have already covered that.
Intermittent Fasting may also your reduce risk for many forms of cancer. It reduces your insulin levels and helps your body access stored fat for fuel. Since body fat produces its own estrogen and many forms of cancer are correlated with excess estrogens, reducing body fat [...]
For as long as I’ve been interested in nutrition, I’ve acknowledged that the Atkins diet is an excellent way to lose fat quickly. However, I’ve also thought the diet was nutrient poor due to its restrictions on whole grains, some vegetables and fruit. I eventually saw the light on whole grains as nutrient robbing [...]
This is an outstanding book that challenged many of my beliefs about weight training.
Body by Science: A Research Based Program to Get the Results You Want in 12 Minutes a Week by Doug McGuff and John Little makes a damn good case for super slow weight training. As I stated in a previous post, I [...]
One of my new favorite blogs is PaNu. It’s tagline is paleolithic nutrition – duplicating the evolutionary metabolic milieu. At times it is a tough read, but I’ve got enough background reading this stuff to be fascinated in learning more about evolutionary nutrition from the prospective of a medical doctor.
I’m currently half-way through [...]
Last winter I did a cold weather exposure project that I named No Jacket Required. It involved going without a coat the vast majority of the winter. From the post Still No Jacket Required:
Other than the Seattle snowstorm, I went this entire winter wearing at most a long sleeve shirt. On most days, even those that got [...]
