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…
Yesterday, as I was doing my end-of-workout stretching in the aerobics room, I heard something that made me sick just thinking of it… It’s not something I heard for the fist time.. That’s the thing. It’s something I hear AND see pretty much every day at the bakery cafe. Here is the situation: While I…
First and foremost you are not going to lose weight if you are eating more calories than what you burn with the planned fat loss activity – weights, weights plus cardio, or cardio alone. That said, to most effectively lose weight you must do both – weight lifting and cardio exercise. Here is why: If…
If you are reading this you need to know exactly what is insulin resistance, so I’m going to spare you the intro words. Here it goes: You have certainly heard about Insulin Resistance, and you might have also heard this other term – Insulin Sensitivity. They both actually mean the same thing. Well, almost. Let me explain. Insulin sensitivity and…