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Know Your Fats by Mary Enig
Know Your Fats as the title states is the complete primer for understanding the nutrition of fats, oils and cholesterol. The book took a few reads for me to fully absorb as the book starts out with the author describing … Continue reading
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Tagged Book review, butter, coconut oil, cooking, cooking oil, Diet, Fat, laws of Thermodynamics, monounsaturated fats, Nutrition, oil, omega six, omega three, saturated fat, saturated fats, the human body
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Book Review: Eat Stop Eat by Brad Pilon
“By following the Eat Stop Eat lifestyle you are able to lose weight by using an uncomplicated and stress free style of eating that balances your fed and fasted metabolism. This allows you to reap the health and metabolic benefits of short periods of fasting, … Continue reading
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Tagged Brad Pilon, Diet, Exercise, fasting, fat loss, intermittent fasting, Nutrition, weight lifting, weight loss
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Book Review: Mindless Eating by Brian Wansink
In 21st Century America, we often forget just how much variety and choice there is nowadays compared to just a few generations ago. We’ve gone from block long lines at soup kitchens during the 1930s to a Starbucks on every block … Continue reading
Book Review: The End of Overeating by David Kessler
In the End of Overeating, David Kessler explores the relationships between people and the food they eat. The beginning starts out rather slow with the author talking about the effects on certain foods on lab rats. What scientists discovered was … Continue reading
The Quick and Dirty on Creatine
Creatine is perhaps the most researched sports and exercise supplement in the history of mankind. Creatine is a naturally occurring substance found within the body made up of the amino acids arginine, glycine and methionine. The liver and kidneys produce … Continue reading
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Tagged adenosine triphosphate, Athletics, ATP, BJJ, Creatine, creatine supplementation, Exercise, Jiu jitsu, Milk, Mixed Martial Arts, MMA, Nutrition, Protein, Satellite cells, Sport, Supplements, weight lifting, Weightlifting
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Book Review: The Laws of Thermodynamics by Dr. Peter Atkins
Thermodynamics – The laws that summarize the properties of energy from one form to another. So the books author, Professor Peter Atkins, begins telling us in this short story of Thermodynamics. The science sprung up during the 19th century along with … Continue reading
Initial Thoughts
There are so many ideas out there and there are so many ways of accomplishing the same idea or challenge. Things can get murky as on the one hand we have all got access to so much information right at … Continue reading
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