Health and Nutrition Coaching
"The government has spent hundreds of millions telling Americans to exercise more and eat less. But the country is getting heavier every year. It's time to change the way we think about fat. " Gary Taubes 5 things I took from Why the Campaign to Stop America's Obesity Crisis Keeps Failing." by Gary Taubes (in Newsweek) 1. The conventional wisdom energy balance theory is wrong This is not new information to me and is a recurring theme in Gary's book Good Calories, … [Read more...]
In my last post about Paleo Fx I mentioned that there were quite a few things for me to investigate more. The conference was jam packed with really great information presented by talented speakers both in the Paleo community and in the medical community. One of the things that I found really interesting was the number of people that had a clinical practice, either as a MD (like Dr. Jack Kruse and Dr. Lane Sebring) or as a functional practitioner (like Chris Kresser). The overwhelming … [Read more...]
552 Million People could have Diabetes by 2030, Experts say Many Cases are still preventable - that is the headline from an article that came out this week from the Huffington post. The headline states that MANY CASES are still PREVENTABLE... are you worried about Diabetes and if the answer is YES, then what are you doing about it??? Thinking about 552 million people having diabetes is hard to fathom. And what does having diabetes mean anyway? Diabetes is at its simplest description … [Read more...]
Ok I'm a little late to the table on this, but I still wanted to share some of my thoughts. US News released a report ranking the Best Overall Diets and the good news is that the Paleo diet is included on the list. The bad news is that it's last...my blink reaction to the list is that I want to see the ranking criteria. Any study or report that includes the Slim Fast Diet and Medi Fast Diet (which feature consuming fortified supplements instead of … [Read more...]
The average sugar consumption of an American has been steadily rising; the average American consumes 20 teaspoons of added sugar EVERY DAY and 120 pounds of sugar a year, approximately 25% of total calories consumed. Going Paleo means changing your food and eliminating processed foods as well as other food categories primarily grains, legumes, and dairy from your diet - which to a person eating the typical American diet can seem pretty extreme. I didn't change my diet overnight to Paleo, and … [Read more...]
