Eating Right

Top 7 Dark Green Vegetables

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Green vegetables are the most nutritious type of food on the planet. They beat everything else hands down, no contest. Friends, family, and clients often ask me what are the best green vegetables and my usual answer is the darker green, the better, because that is an indicator of the amount of nutrients in the…

Cracking Your Holiday Calorie Code

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Gaining weight during the holiday season has become as much an American tradition as the holidays themselves. It doesn’t have to be this way though. I will explain here the fundamental reason this weight gain happens, and your way out of this vicious pattern. If you are a reader, then keep reading. If you would…

My Revised Protein Recomendations

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I used to recommend 1 g per pound of body weight as a minimum protein intake. I also recommended on occasion, that people eat more protein than that, even though they couldn’t possibly absorb all of it, in order to increase their metabolic rate. Protein is a very high metabolic food, and the excess isn’t…

7 Steps to Blasting Fat Forever

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Are Vitamin Supplements Really Worthless?

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The recent news media came out with many stories blasting the use of multivitamins based on what a handful of doctors reported of their “findings” in the Annals of Internal Medicine First of all, the original report came from medical doctors, which always makes me suspicious because they are experts on drugs, not supplements. In…

Coffee, Fat Burning and Fitness

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Coffee has been villainized among fitness gurus and trainers in recent years, but the most recent research indicates that it doesn’t have to be a bad thing, as long as some precautions are taken. The first precaution is to consume it in moderation because coffee tends to be acidic, which leads to inflammation, which can…