The harder you work out….the more weight you gain? What? The point of this post isn’t to discourage you from being active, so please don’t go there. Exercise is hugely important for health and wellbeing, and seriously – I have zero idea how I would manage my stress without activity. I don’t even want to…
It’s unfortunate that I even have to write this post at all, because in a perfect world, no one would be trying to scam people using fear mongering as bait. Just five short minutes on social media will make you realize that there’s a world of nutrition ugliness out there in the form of fad…
There’s been a recent rise in what I’d call ‘diet radicalization’: Extreme diets with obsessive followers who have a disdain for conventional medicine and nutrition science, plus no credible research or proof at all that these diets are even efficacious or, for that matter, safe in the long-term. Welcome to the post-truth era, diet version:…
I keep waiting for the concept of ‘cheat days’ to go away, but sadly, they’re as sticky as tar on a hot day. Search #cheatday on Instagram, and 3.1 MILLION posts pop up. So yeah, it’s still on for cheat days. I’ve never liked the word ‘cheat day’, and I also don’t like the concept…
This post has been sponsored by the Almond Board of California. Mornings tend to be the most difficult time of day to get your act together, if you know what I mean. Not only are you basically still asleep, the clock seems to always be running faster than it should. To demonstrate what I mean,…
After reviewing countless nutrition articles and studies and diet plans and supplements and whatever else is out there, I’m not only a more bitter person (lol I jest…sort of), I’ve also come to realize that there’s a lot of fake nutrition-related promises out there. I swear I’ve become an expert in eye-rolling because that’s what…