Category: Nutrition
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Semen Volume as a marker of Health
If you’ve followed my work over the years, you know I’m usually interested in understanding why the body does what it does. Whether it’s nutrition, energy balance, metabolism, recovery, hormones, or training, I’m always looking for useful physiological signals that tell us what’s actually happening beneath the surface. Years ago I was writing about intermittent…
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How Many Calories In Coffee
I just got back from Starbucks and I had one of the most revealing and shocking conversations with the Barista. When I go to Starbucks I get a grande coffee misto with 1-pump of flavor shot. The flavor shot is approx 70 calories, and there is about 40-50 calories worth of milk, so overall my…
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What Will You Give Up For Weight Loss
Last week we were talking about what causes overeating and it was pretty obvious that there is no single cause. We know it has something to do with your genetic make up as well as your social environment, your psychology and many other factors. It seems that the social situational eating is a factor that…
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What Will YOU Do About Your Body?
The diet and fitness industry is hardly at a loss for words. Browsing the interwebs (or is it the world wide net…) will bring up thousands of pages of information, tips, and endless ‘must do’ and ‘never do’ lists. Within 5 minutes of searching you could easily come up with dozens of ‘rules‘ of fitness…
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Overeating Anything Is Bad – The Devil is in the Dose
If you browse around the cyber-inter-web-o-sphere and look around for ‘healthy nutrition’ information you’ll likely find a big list of “items to avoid”. Here are some of the common ones I can think of off the top of my head: Saturated Fat Trans Fat Sugar Artificial Sweeteners Genetically Modified Anything (which is ridiculous considering about…