Okay. There are two cases that you may find yourself in: 1. You ate too many calories already and now you want to fix that, and 2. You know that you are going to eat too many calories (because it’s the day before Thanksgiving, for example. Both of these are valid and can, and will,…
I stumbled upon a study done in 2010 in the University of Chicago. 10 overweight individuals (7 men and 3 women) were fed a 10-percent below maintenance level calorie-restricted diet for 14 days. They slept either 5.5 hours or 8.5 hours on average. What happened was after these 14 days those who slept only 5.5 hours suffered a decrease…
I was taking walking toward the gym this morning. My usual route takes me by the local yacht club. As I walk walking by it the smell of grilled meet hit me in the face (well, it is Saturday, so I’m sure a lot of cooking is going on there). “So, what’s so special about the smell of…
The “dragon flag” is an exercise I’ve been working on for several years – on and off. I’ve picked up on it lately, as a way of strengthening my core muscles. I used to do it with no weights (and be happy about my accomplishments [smile]) and later on I started adding weights. My best weight was a medicine…
What do we think about water when we think of it as a part of a meal? Usually, people (me included) think about two things: Water dilutes the gastric (digestive) juices and may make digestion more difficult and taxing for the body, and.. Water makes us feel full faster, thus causing us to eat less…
If you want to use a natural 0-Calorie high-intensity sweetener, you may want to consider stevia or Truvia as opposed to artificial high-intensity sweeteners, such as Aspartame (NutraSweet) or Saccharine (Sweet-n-Low). But then what is stevia and what is Truvia? How do these two compare? Stevia is the common name for high-intensity sweetening compounds, extracted from…
Update – 11/28/2012 – – – – – My recording and progress tracking begins in this article. This is where I pick up from the other blog… The date today is October 8th, 2012. After taking a long break from updating my website, I am back. On this page I will record my most…
More updates on my progress with Intermittent Fasting here. – – – Just recently, following the Wholehealthsource blog I found myself onto another blog (don’t remember) and the from there on a couple of blogs (Rippedbody and Leangains) that discussed Intermittent Fasting (IF). Then I remembered one of my two employees from the time I had Viitals asked me whether I’ve…
Pea protein is a vegan protein from yellow peas. Just like all proteins from legumes pea protein is deficient in one of the essential for humans amino acid – methionine. I use a pea protein that has a PDCAAS (Protein Digestability Corrected Amino Acid Score) of 82% and this is precisely because the methionine is…