Category: Nutrition
-
Counting Calories For Weight Loss – Overestimate to be Sure
A comment I received from Kenneth in an earlier post brought up a very good point about calorie counting. Kenneth brought to my attention a new study done at tufts university that analyzed some commercially available foods (from restaurants and grocery stores) and compared how many calories that were stated on the label vs how…
-
My Breakfast – Coffee and 4 “Timebits”
I get lots of questions about my diet and what I eat. And my honest answer is that I eat whatever I want and whenever I want. Unless you actually hang out with me on a daily basis you really can only take my word for it, but I figured I’d try to make it…
-
Holiday Weight Loss…AND Holiday Eat-A-Thon
I just had the first of my holiday dinners…or let me re-phrase that…holiday “eat-a-thons” A friend of mine invited me over for a traditional christmas turkey dinner…we had copious amounts of all the follow foods: Turkey Stuffing Squash Roasted Potatoes Mashed Sweet Potatoes Green Beans peanuts m&m’s Apple caramel score bar dip (translation, a diabetic…
-
Exercise and Fitness Scientific Conference – Vancouver
Tomorrow morning (tues) Brad Pilon and I are heading to Vancouver to attend the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP for short) annual conference. Brad is actually going to be speaking at this conference (thats pretty cool) We’ll be spending the 3 days learning the latest information from the world of exercise science. Anything and…
-
The Sad State of Nutrition Education
So a friend of mine that was on campus at the university here today sent me a text message that perfectly sum’s up how screwed up and hypocritical our society is when it comes to nutrition ‘education’ vs ‘application’ This is the message she sent me: “The student nutrition awareness program is giving away candy treat bags…