After a recent health scare I started thinking, which is never a good sign, and came to a simple conclusion.
Health.
It’s the only thing we have. We can shape it. Mistreat it. Nurture it. And obsess about it.
When your health is great you feel like the dogs bollocks. When it’s poor you feel like shit.
Now, look at the people around you.
Originally, I was going to talk about improving absorption from a performance stand point.
I thought – improve absorption to improve performance as more nutrients are made available as building material and for energy (helping weight loss and/or muscle gain).
Simple right? But reading around the topic, I quickly realised that overall gut health is as important, if not more important, for the average person – especially an athlete.
Athletes eat a lot; way more than the average person. That’s cool – we need more calories.
But….
Can you really absorb and assimilate all of the protein, carbohydrates and fats that you have been eating?
Imagine consuming 4000 calories and only absorbing let’s say 2000. Wouldn’t it be smarter to fix the underlying GI issue than taking in more food to get the calories in?
That has to put a downer on anyone’s mood, especially as you have just spent hours counting the carbohydrates in your broccoli and the precise weight of chicken breasts.
Kind of seems pointless doesn’t it?
A current trend by health stores is to plaster brightly colored labels reading “gluten or wheat free” on various so-called health foods.
Is gluten really bad for you? Or is it just another marketing tactic?
Gluten is a storage protein found in some cereals (wheat, rye and barley) and can be used commercially as a binding agent for various food products (think of things like pasta, beer, sauces etc.). Gluten is composed of gliadin and glutenin.
There is one thing you need to understand before going any further: the difference between Celiac disease and gluten intolerance.
You know what you have to eat and do to lose weight; you’re just wasting time online hoping to find that magical wonder cure.
That certain food, a magical pill or the latest exercise gizmo.
No one food or pill on its own is going to make you lose weight.
You know that the pizza-beer- and Oreo- filled orgy isn’t the best way to go about your health.
In recent years quinoa has become the “it” of health foods that everyone in the fitness industry is talking about.
In this post I’ll try to cover its health benefits and answer the question: “Is Quinoa a Protein?”
Sort of? You’re not far off my young grasshoppers.
It’s a small grain-like seed from the Chenopodiaceae plant family and there are various varieties of quinoa.
They have been grown and eaten in the Andean region of South Africa for many thousands of years by the native Incas.
Get ready for a hell of a confusing article titled “What is saturated fat and unsaturated fat?” This is something that I’ve wanted to write and about for a while now.
Everyday fats are portrayed as EVIL! “Hide your kid’s people!” But some smart folks have been saying that there is more than meets the eye on this topic.
Fat isn’t as simple as “bad” or “good” for us. You need to look open-mindedly at the whole picture.
The article revolves around the idea of what saturated fat does to our bodies is related to what else we eat and do.
