Processed Foods
I think it is time to start using the term ‘processed food’ correctly, understand its real meaning, and that there is a difference from ‘ultra-processed’ food. The vilification of processed foods only shows a lack of understanding because avoidance is practically impossible and unnecessary, the confusion might have started by utilizing the wrong terminology and
If I hear “clean eating” one more time…
One of my clients like many others, “wanted to lose some ‘flab’ around the midsection” and see some definition. Upon assessment, I found out that she had a very low lean mass (muscle and bone) percentage. She wanted to talk about nutrition because she “sometimes only eats one meal a day, very ‘clean’ and not
“METABOLISM” & “Cardio”
METABOLISM – BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) -TEF (Thermic Effect of Food) – EEE Exercise Energy Expenditure) – NEAT (Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis). Do you know why increasing cardio is not giving you the expected results? That’s because, during a caloric deficit, the physical activity components, Exercise and NEAT, of the calorie equation are inversely proportional to
A tale of impatience related to training and results.
Matajuro (a.k.a. Munefuyu) Yagyu (1613-75) was the son of the famous swordsman Munenori Yagyu who was a fencing teacher to the Shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa. Believing that Matajuro was too undisciplined to ever achieve mastery, Munenori disowned him. So Matajuro, hoping to redeem himself in his father’s eyes, went to seek out a famous swordsman named Banzo, who