articles about nutriton
Many diets focus on number of calories, or specific food items to avoid, but very few emphasize the importance of what you actually do eat. If I had to lose 50lbs all over again I would increase my vegetable consumption tenfold.
Here are a few ways to turbocharge your intake of fibre, vitamins, and minerals from the almighty vegetable. Continue reading
If you haven’t heard of the Body By Vi Challenge yet, I’m sure you will soon. Body By Vi is a subsidiary of the Visalus Science company, and it’s vision is two-fold. On one hand the company makes a promise that their meal replacement solutions can help it’s customers lose weight as proposed in the 90 Day Body By Vi Challenge.
On the other hand is the network marketing machine. Visalus set up their company using a tradition network marketing pyramid (which is a fine strategy – free advertising!). They reward their customers for selling products, and inspire them to enrol other sales associates to forge a path to riches.
I have googled hundreds of keywords, and it is tough to come across and unbiased review of the Body By Vi Challenge. So before we proceed, I think it is important to separate the two sides of Body By Vi.
Body By Vi as a weight loss solution
Let first address the nutritional aspect of the Body By Vi 90 day challenge. The Body By Vi challenge essentially recommends it’s followers drink 2 meal replacement shakes per day. In addition to the 2 shakes they also recommend eating a meal that that is high in protein, low in fat, and moderate in carbohydrates. An example of this would be fish, with broccoli, and maybe a side salad with low fat dressing.
It doesn’t take a doctor to figure out that this type of meal plan (2 shakes, and a light dinner) will dramatically reduce calorie consumption for people that were previously consuming a typical north american diet. In fact this diet structure has been written about for some time. 2 shakes and a salad is the precise prescription from Fitness Black Book’s Rusty Moore for getting ultra ripped. So the philosophy is nothing new, but it does work.
The following is taken directly from the Visalus website listing the benefits of using the Vi-Shape shake.
- The shake mix provides complete nutrition – fast
- Helps control appetite
- Provides bone-healthy calcium
- Provides heart healthy, low fat protein
- Helps promote & maintain lean muscle mass
- Supports protein digestion and nutrient absorption
- Helps support healthy energy levels while cutting calories
- Provides fiber benefits for health protection
- Includes two unique fibers for health, and for hunger control
- Supports a low glycemic lifestyle
- Supports healthy metabolism
The benefits do sound great, and are in fact truthful. Many of the participants of the 90 day challenge will credit the shakes for these phenomenal benefits. The question we should be asking is, how else can we experience these benefits? Do we really believe that only Body By Vi can bring them to us?
The obvious answer is no. There are a few different ways to experience the laundry list of benefits pimped off on the company website. For starters, increasing protein consumption can produce more than half of the positive changes listed above. Protein on it’s own is a known appetite suppressant, is low on the glycemic index, and helps build and maintain lean muscle mass. Another is to increase your consumption of vegetables, especially leafy greens.
So, if we can get most of the benefits of the Body By Vi challenge by simply increasing protein and vegetable consumption, then why do it at all?
Well according to the company website
Each protein has been specially processed to remove fat, remove lactose, and remove carbohydrates. In addition, we have processed the soy to remove the isoflavones, so there is no estrogenic affect. The “shake mix that tastes like a cake mix” is hard to beat.
Having tasted the shakes, it’s hard to deny that they are tasty. In addition, the challenge is about convenience and if making meals is something you loath then this is a good plan. Not to mention that the price of the product is comparatively low. However, having compared it’s the Vi-Shape Mix nutritional value to that of a standard protein shake, there is not much of a difference.
I will concede that the Body By Vi mixture has gone to great lengths to clean the protein, and trim the fat, but not to the extent that we should label it a magic solution.
It is easy to become overwhelmed with nutritional facts, and end up believing whatever we hear, however we can’t lose sight of the reason the Body By Vi Challenge is so effective. I like to lay it out over a long period of time. Image the changes we would experience if we only consumed 2 shakes, and a salad for 90 days straight? That is where the magic is, not in the actual mixture.
The minor differences between regular meal replacement shakes and the Body By Vi mixture should not be credited for the success of the Body By Vi Challenge. It is the will of the participants to adhere to a calorie restricting that makes this plan successful. The same success that could be achieved with traditional protein and meal replacement supplements.
Why then, is there such a push to use Body By Vi over a regular meal replacements?
Cash Money
Just let the song run to the chorus…Body By Vi doesn’t offer a Hummer, or a Rolls Royce, but they will pay for a BMW!
I have to be honest. When I first learned about this company I knew they were slick. but I didn’t know how slick. Try searching Body By Vi Scam/review/any word here. What I found was hundreds of sites with “unbiased” reviews that were selling the product. Kinda of strange for unbiased reviews to be selling the product. All that aside, let’s be clear that the people in charge of this company are exceptional marketers.
The Body By Vi Challenge is more about business, than a sound nutritional lifestyle movement. If you are doing this challenge to lose weight that is great, and it will be rewarding. I just want you to know that the goal of the company is to get you to sell. This is how they grow, this is how they make money. There is nothing wrong with this model at all. In fact it is a genius business idea, and it has been around for years.
The reason this idea is so good (from a business perspective) is that you can create real motivation here. If you sign up to be a distributor there are some pretty sweet compensation packages. They range from getting your own product for free, to having the company pay your lease payments on a BMW. To further reinforce the benefits of joining the company distributors are probably going to be in good shape. Imagine how much easier it is to sell a weight loss product when you are losing weight yourself?
The people at the top of this company are super smart, they get it. They know how to incetivize the hell out of the program, and they know how to motivate. I see the allure here, no doubt, and I totally believe people will be successful in this business.
My major concern is that people following the plan will not think long term. If you really want to make a sustained lifestyle change, a program like this might be what you need to get started, but it is not the end game.
Do you really want to drink shakes for the rest of your life? Somewhere along this journey, I hope that people will realize that food is responsible for how we look and feel. When you approach this business, please consider both of their agendas. One is the weight loss proposition (90 days of 2 shakes and one meal), and the other is the business opportunity. Know how you feel about each agenda and act accordingly.
I am as guilty of this as anybody else, but I can’t believe the number of gyms profiting off of clients that don’t show up. It really is amazing.
I remember paying for a monthly membership at the YMCA for 2 years in which time I made less than 30 visits to the facility. This is great for business, but not for the general health of our community.
Tax dollars only go so far
Many countries are burdened with paying for the health care of their fellow countrymen. In Canada we have a comprehensive public health care system in which most major medical treatment is subsidized by public tax dollars. The last 20 years have been a difficult time with the rise of what many would classify as preventable diseases (cardiovascular disease, obesity related disease, etc.).
As such, the push to spend tax dollars on preventative medicine is gaining momentum, and the old model of medicating the sick (band-aid solutions) is becoming way too expensive, not to mention ineffective.
When I was contemplating starting a personal training business, my father suggested a cool idea to increase adherence.
His Idea
Offer rebates for people that complete the program. So if my course cost $400, offer a $200 dollar rebate for those that completed this program. If we could get the government on board with this kind of program it might actually work. While I would probably be happy to provide a rebate to clients that completed a training program, it would be easier if the government could chip in too!
It would be like getting paid to go to the gym……I bet there are places operating using this system already.
Have any other ideas to improve exercise adherence?
What would provide extra motivation for you or clients to complete an exercise training program?
We have all been there.
A few pounds (or maybe much more) away from our ideal weight, we get desperate. We know that if we eat better and increase our activity we will succeed, but we panic. We make quick fear driven decisions. Why?
Maybe we had a poor plan to start with. So, we panic. We settle for the quick fix. We romanticize about a thinner sexier self, get sucked in and stoop to a level that is almost laughable, but at the same time unfortunate.
Remember the Low Fat fad that dominated the food industry in the 90’s? Well the average person still believes that fat is bad (lipid hypothesis)…….despite overwhelming evidence that illustrates the contrary. This school of thought has only made us sicker and created and obesity situation that is out of control!
Avoiding fat because you think it makes you fat……..Bad idea.
What about overweight marathon runners? They must be fit if they can run a marathon. Some runners are in great shape, but not all of them. Every year thousands of couch potatoes decide to train for a marathon in an attempt to ditch their gut. Sure, there are success stories, but many more broken dreams, and bodies as a result.
Training for a marathon or any running race for the sole purpose of losing weight….bad idea….
Herbal weight loss pills? I wish I was above them, but they somehow made their way into my daily routine once upon a time. Seriously, over $50 billion/year is spent on diet pills and diet food items in America alone. How sad. I fell for it too. Devastatingly ineffective and expensive.
Taking weight loss pills….bad idea.
Following government recommendations for daily food intake. Why should we adhere to a set of guidelines that intentionally attempts to confuse the public? The average person can not correctly identify food items as a carbohydrate, fat, or protein, but we push hundreds of terms down the throats of our citizens anyway. Public Health agencies are a joke in most countries. They serve the interest of lobbyists and multinational agriculture companies. Don’t forget it.
Following government nutritional recommendations…bad idea.
If you know of any other bad weight loss ideas, please share in the comments section!
The hype surrounding Dr. Davis’ book, “Wheat Belly”, was given further credence in the latest edition of MacLeans Magazine (article here).
I think it is sheer awesomeness that the ideas in this book are starting to seep into the collective conscience of the public, at least in Canada. Author, Dr. Davis claims that his clients were able to shed their bellies, reverse disease, and improve overall health indicators simply by ditching wheat and it’s derivatives. He is not the first to make such a claim, but his book contains the most thoughtful collection of work on the subject.
Who wouldn’t be excited about the prospect of blasting their belly fat simply by avoiding bread and pasta?
Unfortunately the pervasiveness of wheat makes it difficult to avoid when eating typical North American fair.
If we are planning to ditch wheat altogether, because of allergies, or our desire to try a life changing diet be warned. Wheat is everywhere.
Really, there is wheat in that?
Here is a list of sneaky wheat laden foods. Watch our for these guys! They could be a pain in your butt, if you don’t pay attention.
So it’s not just pasta and bread that wheat dodgers need to watch! I am a strong believer that everyone is sensitive to wheat, some more then others of course. It might take an experiment to find our where you are on the spectrum of wheat sensitivity, but it is worth looking at, especially if you are overweight, and consume many foods on this list, or have ever experienced gut irritation.
For more on the book, this is a great place to start….Wheat Belly Blog
” If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge WHEAT!”
There are two times of the year when people are most likely to start a health kick. The unofficial new year (September – when the kids go back to school and normalcy resumes) and January 1st.
During this time there are countless sites running 30 day challenges. There are a few notable sites running them right now, my favourite of which is marksdailyapple. Although you don’t need to follow the site to start your own 30 day challenge, the free information available is truly phenomenal. Learning from others that are going through the same struggle is priceless.
It was a 30 day challenge that got me hooked and expedited my weight loss on route to a 50 pound body transformation!
Downfalls of a 30 day challenge
If you know of any cool sites running a 30 day challenge add the link in the comments section below.
Does exercise really help us lose weight?
Of course it does, but not nearly as much as fitness experts would have us believe. Especially if you are one of the unlucky ones (like I was) that stands to lose more than 20lbs to get back to a somewhat healthy looking body.
Think about your public gym for a moment.
You probably notice the same people, on the same treadmill….year after year, looking identical if not worse then they did before. Or maybe you have a friend that has rambles on about their intense kick boxing, or spin class, but their body still looks the same.
Is attending Boot Camp, or Yoga class going to produce a dramatic, life altering change on it’s own?
HELLS NO! But that doesn’t stop people from shelling out their hard earned cash.
Real Body Transformation
Think about the last person you know that dramatically altered their body composition. Next time you see this person, ask them how they did it.
Most people are more than willing to share their experience, especially something as exciting as a total body transformation. Plus it’s nice to be social at the gym!
My prediction is that the majority of people who have experienced a body transformation did so by altering their diet. Many would even tell you that they have not engaged in exercise above and beyond their normal daily activities. I can say this with confidence, because I was one of them. While I preach about the importance of exercise for overall fitness, it pales in comparison to finding a diet you can live with.
Psychology of Exercise
This is a personal issue. If you are an all or nothing person it might be best to try and tackle a new diet, and exercise program at once. Be warned that more often then not the outcome of this approach is failure.
Some might argue that if they put in the time to exercise then they will make sure they don’t cheat.
“I don’t want to spoil all my hard work”!
Great thought process, but people with a lot of weight to lose will find that exercise, especially cardio makes them hungry and ravenous for carbs!
The 20 Pound Blueprint!
If you have 20 or more lbs to lose then I would start with the following suggestions
If you can do this for 30 days you’ll probably lose enough weight to get excited about tackling a new exercise program!
I am a firm believer that 90% of your body compostion goals can be accomplished with nutrition alone.
I you have any other tips or questions, please add them to the comments section. Would love to hear from you!
Cheers,
Jordan
It’s been a while since I have been truly captivated by a health and fitness personality. After watching Mat Lalonde at the inaugural Ancestoral Health Symposium, I was speechless.
I owe much of my health and fitness success to the Paleo Diet ideology, so is it fair to question it’s scientific significance?
While it’s nice to picture living and eating like cavemen (simple visual) are paleo diet recommendations based on true science?
Mat Lalonde eats a diet similar to what we call paleo, but isn’t satisfied with the mainstream explanation for doing so.
If you have any science background, or just want to listen to a dude that knows what the hell he is talking about, please check out this video.
If you are a nutrition newbie, just fast forward to the last 10 minutes! Continue reading
I love summer! Mainly because I have more time to travel, relax, engage in meaningful social activities, and READ!
Last Wednesday, after my (just returned from vacation need get back on track) bacon and eggs breakfast, I performed my daily summer blog surf. I usually find time to read my favourite blogs, but the extra time I have in July and August allows me to actually enjoy them!
I tacked on 10 pounds while on vacation (no kidding!), so I was eager to return to my normal routine. Looking for inspiration as I often do, I decided to check in on a few blogs I love to read.
My favourite of course is Seth Godin’s blog. His posts are always short, creative and have the ability to inspire anyone!
A close second is the blog of Tim Ferris. I like Tim for the same reasons his 100,000+ facebook fans do. His writing inspires people and provides action steps to accomplish anything!
The breadth of Tim’s Blog topics fascinate me. On this particular occasion I was searching for articles on fitness motivation, and sure enough I found some amazing content.
The article that caught my attention was written by Ryan Holiday who is a young (24) online strategist for American Apparel, and friend of Tim. The article began with a story of Ryan’s recent weight loss success. Not only was he able to lose those last 15 pounds, he was also able to set a personal best time for in the 1 mile run.
While this is a great achievement on it’s own, the article was really entertaining and got me thinking about my own attitude towards eating. With the approach Ryan used to challenge his philosophy on eating, he will be fit for life! And so can we.
How did the Ancients Treat Food?
Ryan decided to research historic attitudes pertaining to food consumption among famous philosophers.
Here is a snippet from the article:
A student once asked Epictetus how he ought to eat. This, Epictetus replied, was simple. The right way to eat is the same as the right way to live: be “just, cheerful, equable, temperate, and orderly.” He meant that meals embody the principles and the disposition of the person who eats them. Food means choices and choices mean a chance to fulfill our principles. [So think: being thankful, eating just what you need, tipping generously, caring about where it comes from and how it got there.]
What Does Our Diet Say About Us?
Think about how you eat. Do you like sharing? Are you wasteful? Do you give a damn about where your food comes from?
These questions resonated in my head for a while, and I began to feel guilty for being wasteful, of not sharing, and not caring where my food comes from. Throughout my various weight loss attempts, I didn’t give a second thought as to how my food choices would impact the world outside of myself. All I cared about was getting in shape. Kind of selfish now that I think about it.
What about your eating behaviours?
In what ways might your actions be selfish?
This bothered me a bit, then I read further …
The Ancients Surely Worried About Their Appearance
In ancient times people believed it was silly to obsess over their weight and appearance as it did not reflect well on their character, at the same time they resisted the urge to live in excess (eating too much) in fear of appearing like a glutton.
I felt guilty again for my part in perpetuating this notion that people need to be fit and they need to worry about it, with complete disregard for the process. So I continued to read…..
Ultimately, they (the philosophers) understood that everything we do—especially something with life or death implications like diet—is a platform for philosophy, that something you do at least three times a day is worth doing well.
OK, now I feel a bit better. The philosophers recognized that it was important to care about what we eat. Eating well is important obviously, but what does it mean to eat well?
Eating Well – Way Back in the Day
As Ryan suggests it is about more than just the food we eat.
By eating well, we can be proud and transparent, rather than secretly uncomfortable. For starters, by eating more naturally (protein-dense, appropriate portions), we reduce our footprint—the amount we ask of the world to give us. By caring about the quality of what we ingest, we opt out of brutal factory farming and toxic industrial agriculture—keeping excessive blood off our hands. And by eating locally, we support small businesses and entrepreneurs instead of corporate behemoths who have few qualms about poisoning and fattening us (by doing the same to their “product”) if it means greater profits.
You can probably tell where this is headed. Eating natural foods, grown locally, goes a long way in helping our world, and still helps us in the process. Now I don’t want to say that eating Paleo fits this philosophy perfectly, but it does appear to be one of the better options. Ryan didn’t see it this way, and actually criticized vegetarians and paleo dieters for starting these diets with selfish intent.
I don’t believe that every person practicing a paleo or vegetarian diet does so because they are selfish, but his point is valid.
Do we only eat the way we do because it might help us lose weight? With a disregard for how it might affect others in the case of slaughter houses and multinational agriculture corporations?
Do we eat the way big corporations do business by finding the cheapest way to get it done for the biggest profit?
What we eat really does say something about who we are. This article definately challenged my own eating philosphy, but there was one item that I could totally agree with.
And that is the concept of Practicing Restraint – Yes!
Learning How to Say NO
According to the Ancients:
Practicing restraint and targeted release is a deeply philosophic exercise. It means being in tune with your body and living naturally. These are two things that are increasingly difficult in a world of plenty. To be able to say “no,” knowing that what may feel good now will actually feel bad later, is to master the self. To be able to reward the self with simple pleasures is to successfully navigate the fine line between self-control and self-flagellation.
What better way to say no. There are world wide days for causes that practice restraint. How does practicing restraint help the world (or at least create awareness)?
Think about Earth Hour, when we restrain ourselves from using electricity to benefit the earth.
International Intermittent Fasting Day?
Relating this back to eating, I immediately thought about Intermittent fasting. Practicing restraint from eating. Learning how to control food and not let food control us. Practicing restraint with intermittent fasting is noble, but in all honesty, it was more about weight loss for me. Now I will view the process of fasting through a different lens altogether.
When we fast we send a messege to slaughter houses, and fake food conglomerates that we do not support them. If fasting were to become mainstream the world would be a different place.
Can you imagine the lost profits for companies like McDonalds and Burger King if we organized an “International Day of Fasting”! What if people were to fast once a week?
Imagine the profits lost then…
Talk about sending a message!
Lastly, before embarking on a new eating plan ask yourself who benefits. If it is only you, then stop what you are doing! There are ways to eat that benefit you and the people around you.
Think about your waistline, and your world!
Cheers,
Jordan
p.s. You can check out the full article here.
Paleo Diet Criticisms
A: The “paleolithic,” “stone age,” “cave man,” or “neanderthal” eating plans have been around for a while and there are quite a few books that have been written on the subject.
In general, with a only few minor constructive criticisms, I think they are right on point, and will benefit your health and definitely your fat loss efforts.
A “Paleo Diet” is actually quite similar to my Burn The Fat program, only with the starches and grains (and dairy products) removed completely.
In fact, a “paleo” or “cave man” diet is very, very similar to the “contest” (bodybuilding or physique) diets I recommend in Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle and this is most definitely a great way get very lean, very fast.
On physique competition diets (bodybuilding, fitness, figure, etc), you leave the lean proteins, lean meats, nuts and seeds, the green veggies (fibrous carbs), and some fruit in the diet, while reducing or removing ALL processed foods and SOME of the grains and starches. (usually the dairy products go too).
When it comes to MAXIMUM FAT LOSS, the removal or reduction of grains and calorie dense starchy carbs in favor of lean protein and veggies will definitely help speed the process – even if that’s only because it reduces caloric density of the food intake, although there are other reasons.
Lean protein (fish and meat) + good fats & nuts + lots of green veggies + some fruit = LEAN!
And thats basically what the “paleolithic” diets recommend, because the principle there is to eat like our “stone age” ancestors did – before there was McDonalds, Coca Cola and other junk food.
The premise is that since our genetic code (the human genome) has changed less than 0.02 percent in 40,000 years, this means that our bodies are still expecting to get the same foods and nutrition they were getting 40,000 years ago.
By eating what our “stone age” hunter and gatherer ancestors ate, say the paleo diets, we will rid ourselves of the health problems and the obesity problem that has only recently begun to plague us as a result of modern lifestyle and processed man-made foods.
Forty thousand years ago, you had to eat nature-made food. There was no food in cans, boxes or packages was there? The packaging was peel, a skin or a shell!
There were no TV dinners. There was no drive in fast food. There were no convenience stores.
There was no corn syrup. There was no white sugar. There were no hydrogenated oils. No chemicals. No preservatives. No artificial anything.
There was only what could be hunted and gathered: Meat, fish, nuts, seeds, plants, vegetables, fruits.
My only real constructive criticism is that some of these programs not only recommend removal of all grains and starches (and even dairy), they outright condemn them – sometimes unfairly, I believe.
They say that agriculture arrived on the scene only 10,000 years ago so foods produced as a result of agriculture should also be on the “banned” list and that includes 100% whole grain products and even rice, potatoes and other starches which are not man-made.
The truth is there are some starchy carbohydrates and grains which are very minimally processed or completely unprocessed (the only processing being cooking).
Also, some people can metabolically handle starches and grains just fine, while others cannot. The same can be said for dairy products.
This is known as metabolic individuality. Because this individuality exists from person to person, I don’t believe it’s necessary to recommend that “EVERYONE” cut out “ALL” the starches and grains “ALL” the time.
I do believe that many people are getting an overdose of refined carbs and sugar and that moderating intake of concentrated carbs almost always accelerates fat loss.
However, the nutrition program you choose should depend on your metabolic/body type, your current body composition and state of health as well as your goals (maximum fat loss vs. muscle growth vs. maintenance, vs. endurance ).
I don’t believe that “agriculture” and everything that came with it is “evil.”
I believe that highly processed and refined and packaged foods are the “nutritional evils” we should be aware of.
To remove brown rice, 100% whole grains, sweet potatoes, oatmeal, legumes and so on for healthy carb tolerant people, especially those who are highly active and or already at a normal body fat level doesnt make a lot of sense to me.
In particular, for athletes with a high energy expenditure, eating the concentrated complex, starchy carbs and grains – from natural sources – can be quite important.
Sure, there are some “renegade’ nutritionists who prescribe high fat diets for endurance athletes and claim that will provide high energy and high performance, but that is controversial.
Also, an explanation for athletes successful on such plans may be that they are metabolically suited for more fat and protein to begin with, so that conclusion shouldn’t be generalized to everyone.
Thats the trouble with so many programs — the creators might say, “It worked for me and for some of my clients, so this is the way EVERYONE should do it.”
Everyone is different, so the true inquiring minds will inquire about what is best for THEM, not the other guy… In the case of highly active healthy people and athletes, I would lean towards a decent amount of natural carbs for performance goals (and pull back on starches and grains when goals change to maximum fat loss).
The key word here is NATURAL!
There is a HUGE difference between natural starches and grains and refined starches and grains.
For example, look at old fashioned unsweetened oatmeal versus sugary, white flour cereal grains. How can you throw those together into the same category??? They are no where near the same, but often they get lumped together by those who are adamantly “no-grain” or “no-cereal” allowed.
What about sweet potatoes? why cut something like that out of your diet? They are not processed or man made at all are they?
Aside from that minor quibble I have with some of these programs being too strict with their “Absolutely no grains or starch allowed,” there is a lot anyone can learn from the “paleolithic” eating concept.
The questions raised from these programs and books are good ones:
“What were we eating tens of thousands of years ago?”
“What are we genetically and environmentally predisposed to eat?”
“what has gone wrong with the modern day diet that has led to so much disease and obesity which didn’t exist thousands of years ago?”
I believe that too many people get caught up in low fats or low carbs or whatever the trend of the month is, but the real source of our problem is neither fat nor carbs, it is an excess of processed, refined man-made food! (combined with a serious shortage of exercise)
If you study and understand the concept of eating according to your personal goals and your unique body/metabolic type first, which I discuss in chapter 5 of my book, Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle, then I believe you will get even more benefit from the further study of the “paleo” eating concept, as you will be informed and flexible enough to adapt it to your personal situation.
Loren Cordain and Ray Audette have written two of the more notable works on the subject (the Paleo diet and Neanderthin). You can get either of these at almost any bookstore or Amazon.com. You can get my Burn The Fat program at www.BurnTheFat.com.
ANY good nutrition program – for health or for fat loss – is going to be focused on natural foods and it will teach you how to get the processed food OUT and the natural food IN
When you analyze ANY diet or nutrition program, keep in mind what ageless Fitness Icon Jack Lalanne has always said,
“If man made it, dont eat it!”
THAT is the essence of eating how we’re supposed to eat!
- This is an article written by Tom Ventuo that really hammers home the benefits of the Paleo Diet, while not fully endorsing it for all people. I think Tom did an adequate job at addressing the major criticisms of the Paleo Diet and conceding that while it is a great diet for many people, not all people need to give up grains and dairy. I believe that some people need to give up grains and dairy to get real results because I was one of them. I will absolutely accept that some people do not need to take this drastic step, but could still gain from making that move.
