Fat has wrongly been vilified ever sense the 20th century. A man named Ancel Keys was responsible for a big part of it He did research that showed saturated fat causes heart disease. The problem is that he used vegetable oil, which is mainly polyunsaturated fat. We know today that these oils do cause heart disease for a variety of reasons, but Keys pointed to the tiny amount of saturated fat in those oils, and blamed that. This was unpronounced...
The consumption of sugar has sky rocketed in the recent decades. Today, the average American consumes about 150 pounds of added sugar each year. This is not including sugar that's naturally occurring in food. Sugar has many deleterious effects on the body. Today, we will cover obesity, diabetes, and Alzheimer's. Obesity How does sugar make you fat? It's all about the hormonal impact that food has on our body. Insulin is our bodies major fat storing hormone. Fat does not raise insulin,...
There is no such thing as a one size fits all diet. There are so many different varieties of diets today. Everything from paleo, keto, vegan, carnivore, low fodmap, and gaps. The truth is that all of these diets have value, and they all work at certain times, and for certain people. We have to find out what the best diet is for us. As I said, there is no one diet for everyone, but there are some universal principals...
Cholesterol is one of the most widely misunderstood molecules that exists. Based on biased research back in the 20th century. The main argument is that cholesterol is bad because it clogs arteries, but there's no context. Today you will discover the benefits, and physiology of cholesterol. First, we need to talk about why we have it in the first place. The benefits include needed to build our cell membranes, used to build sex hormones, converting UVB from sunlight into vitamin...
1. Forest Bathing Forrest bathing is the practice of going in nature, or the forest to relax. Trees produce special essential oil like molecules that have been proven to improve the immune system. Going in nature also reduces cortisol. Reacher's conclude "A total of 971 articles were screened; 22 of them were included in the systematic review and 8 in the meta-analysis. In all but two included studies, cortisol levels were significantly lower after intervention in forest groups if compared...
In are culture we believe that calories are everything. As long as you don't eat to many calories, you can stay thin, right? Well today your going to learn how this isn't true, and the many factors that control what calories actually do in your body. 1.Thermic effect of food This means that it takes calories to digest calories. For example, if you have 100 calories of protein, it takes 30 of the calories just to digest the 100, so your only...
1. Caloric restriction When you restrict calories, it may work in the short term, but in the long term it's going to destroy the metabolism. The metabolism becomes less efficient, and starts to store all calories as fat because it thinks it's starving. 2. Using the scale Using the scale can work for some people, but for most, it gets people focusing on the numbers too much. When we don't focus on the progress we've made, and were constantly looking at the numbers,...