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What you need to know about Macro/Calorie calculators and templates.
In the past few years, I’ve been observing a rapid growth of automatization within the nutrition field. This quick methodology benefits the providers of such services, it allows them to cater to more people and sell templates at a much faster pace without their intervention, it’s a good cost-effective business overall. But what happens toContinue…
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Wonder Woman Lemonade
“Wonder Woman Lemonade (WWL)”; shh… ladies… this is the secret that’s been kept from you! 🤫😱 All that training and nutrition advice is 🐮💩; all you need is the WWL. You make it first thing in the morning after a good night’s sleep (7/8 hours) and drink it along your regular day, you don’t have toContinue…
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The Yuka app. My take on it.
This app is pretty new so it doesn’t have as many critics as it should but I promise you they will come. I find this app incredibly dangerous because it is sneaking Orthorectic habits into people that are well intended. The consequences of “clean eating” and the rating based on the Nutri score system whichContinue…
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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 andContinue…
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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 notContinue…
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“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 toContinue…
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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, whoContinue…
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Carbs; why do some people fear them and others love them?
Long ago we realized that eating bread, or carbohydrates in general showed us a quick increase in scale weight, and sometimes we felt bloated and clothes seemed tighter. But now we have new knowledge that explains why it happens and why it shouldn’t be a concern. Let’s start from the basics: The food we eatContinue…
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Calorie-Counting; meals vs recipes and my family doesn’t like that.
This is a very recurrent topic so I’m going to attempt to simplify it as much as I can. When one member of the family is attempting a caloric deficit, it may seem difficult to feed the whole family “diet” food; the good news is that you don’t have to. The bad news is thatContinue…
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The ‘Tears’ of Doms and how nutrition can help in this tale of woe, injuries, and pain.
As far as the body’s concerned, the ideal scenario would occur when energy intake perfectly matches energy expenditure. We also know that it will fight to stay there, and there are very important reasons for our body to try to maintain this homeostasis or ‘unchanging” state. Because energy imbalances can affect a lot more thanContinue…
