Why hidden sugar may be making you fat
These past few decades, Americans consumed more sugar than at any time in our history, contributing significantly to a dramatic increase in obesity and associative diseases never before seen in this...
View ArticleLow Carb Diet or Low Fat Diet: Which is Best for Me?
My entire adult life, and throughout the duration of my career in fitness and nutrition, the debate over what ratio of carbohydrate, fat and protein in a diet is best for reducing body fat has been a...
View ArticleHoliday Travel and Dieting: Get Out of My Grill, I’m on Vacation
Most of my clients travel multiple times a year,and especially during the holiday season. It’s typically family visits, work related travel and those that are purely vacation getaways, and sometimes a...
View ArticleBusted: The Truth About Nutrition and Exercise Myths
The amount of information pertaining to nutrition and the pursuit of a leaner, healthier body is staggering if not daunting. The thousands of books, articles and studies that are released annually to...
View ArticleSupplements: Who Needs Them?
As I write this in January, I have noticed an increase in the number of advertisements for various nutrition supplements, most pertaining to weight loss, and some for general health. This review will...
View ArticleThe Eating Out Problem
For Americans, the preparation of food at home vs eating out has been shifting toward the latter, with the number of meals consumed from restaurants increasing for several decades in a row. The norm is...
View ArticleArtificial Sweeteners
Controversy has surrounded artificial sweeteners since the creation of saccharine in 1950. A recent study “suggests a popular sugar substitute could lead to new treatments for some of the most common...
View ArticleCarbohydrates: Fiber vs Starch
How often have you heard “don’t eat carbs after (insert time) if you want to get lean”? How about “good” carbs versus “bad” carbs? The foods that may be called a carb (carbohydrate) are numerous and...
View ArticleGluten Revisited: Why does this diet fad still exist?
A few years ago, I wrote a piece on gluten, the protein found in many grains, including wheat, barley and rye. Suddenly, it seemed, the whole planet was allergic or at least gluten-sensitive, and a...
View ArticleSupplements & Safety
The supplement industry generates over $30 billion in product sales while contributing over $60 billion to the U.S. economy annually when including research, manufacturing, packaging, and distribution....
View ArticleThe GMO Controversy
Genetic modification of plants has been practiced by farmers for many centuries, crossbreeding different varieties to achieve a more robust variety, that in turn is more drought, disease, weed and pest...
View ArticleSleep & Weight Loss: What is the sleep connection?
The relationship between the amount and quality of your sleep may be a critical component to the ultimate success you achieve in losing excess fat stores and maintaining a healthy state of leanness....
View ArticleWhat food should I limit to get lean?
Over the course of the last several decades, there have been literally thousands of books and articles penned purporting to offer the latest and greatest diet for attaining that “swimsuit model”...
View ArticleThe Carbs Everyone Should Eat
In the ever-expanding world of dietary experts and nutrition advice-givers, the debate on how much dietary carbohydrate should we consume rages on. Now, to be sure, this question must be framed more...
View ArticleSnacking: Should I eat between meals?
Meal frequency is an important consideration for not just getting leaner, but for general health and well-being as well. Most nutritionists consider multiple smaller meals (4-6) an important aspect...
View ArticleEating Out & Dieting: Hidden Calories at Restaurants
Today the average American eats between 4 and 5 commercially prepared meals per week according to the most recently released data. If snacks are included the number rises to 5.8 meals and/or snacks per...
View ArticleHealthy Dairy Choices
Dairy has been part of the human diet for thousands of years as signs of structured dairy farming have been identified all the way back to goats being herded and kept for their milk in western Asia...
View ArticleSugar Alcohols : Which Ones Are Best For Body Fat Loss?
Though you may not be familiar with the term “sugar alcohol”, odds are you have consumed, or are consuming some in the food you eat. Sugar alcohols, also known as polyols, are neither a sugar nor an...
View ArticleGlycemic Index vs Glycemic Load
The term glycemic index (GI) was first coined by Dr David J Jenkins and colleagues in 1980-81 at the University of Toronto while researching which foods would best suit diabetics. Study subjects were...
View ArticleVegetable Flavor Enhancement: 4 Tips To Make Veggies Flavorful
The biggest complaint I field pertaining to getting enough fiber in one’s daily diet is “but I just don’t like the taste of most vegetables unless I can smother them in cheese”! The same issue may be...
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