The media can just never get enough of these ‘doing XX can kill you’ headlines, so it’s up to me to come behind them and clean up the mess. The recent research on eggs is one example, and the latest study on how skipping breakfast can cause you to die of a cardiovascular event, is…
YAY!! I love myth busting, and I haven’t done one of these posts in forever. Welcome to nutrition myths 2019! I could probably write an entire post on each of these myths, but I love putting them together in an efficient one-two-punch format. If you want to hear more about any of these, just let me…
I keep seeing an article about the calories in Easter candy pop up in my social feeds. Around Halloween, it’s the same article, except with Halloween candy. The article bugs me because who gives a crap how many calories are in their Peeps? Seriously! Enjoy your Easter candy (or Halloween candy) once a year, and…
Most peoples’ diets are low in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains: that’s something we know. But did a bad diet kill 11 million people in 2017? That’s what the latest nutrition study to come out of The Lancet has concluded. In fact, this study states that a bad diet kills more people per year than…
What Are Somatotypes? Does it Matter? I’ve had a few requests to do a post on somatotypes. A somatotype is a genetic body type that is predicated on your stature as well as your muscle and fat mass. When asking me to write this piece, my friend and colleague Nicole Osinga told me that as an…
I grew up in a foodie household, and my mom always used Mazola vegetable oil to cook with. At the time (the 70s and 80s, if you must know), there wasn’t a huge variety of oils in the supermarket, and nobody really cared about nutrition all that much. People were more like, ‘pass the cheez crackers…