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Travel nutrition can be difficult, but only if you think it should be. It’s actually pretty easy with the right mindset and a web browser (smartphone or computer). Last weekend, when I was traveling to Portland for a stair race with some friends, we asked the concierge at the hotel for a great healthy restaurant nearby. That’s usually a…

Have you ever felt so hungry that you feel frantic and then end up eating junk because that’s all that seems to be quickly available? When your blood sugar drops, your brain is hard-wired to eat the nearest, quickest thing and that usually means something processed. Thinking you can use willpower to wait until you can…

OK, I get it. You either really don’t have time to prepare your own food (and there really are some people like that, especially at X Gym), or you aren’t ready to start that committed relationship with your kitchen (which would be my first choice for you, as I pointed out in this post). Well, I now have good news for you.…

Not everyone will “get” the title of this post. X Gen’s probably will, but most Millennials and Boomers will only hear a “whooshing” sound as it flies over their head. So for those mille/booms, I’ll explain: Back in the late 80’s, 90’s and even into the early 2000’s, the slang term “phat” came in and out of…

Americans are sugar addicts and starch lovers, so in this country, over 99% of the people you see walking the streets are “sugar burners.” This means their metabolism and physiology runs on sugar as the primary fuel source. Less than 1% of us are what is referred to as “fat adapted,” which means fat is…