Year: 2018

Overcome Fitness Hurdles, Like What’s In Your Head

This week I’m talking about your fitness and how to overcome the things that are stopping you from starting. The things you should start in order to stop stopping! First of all, look at those people running their tri-athalon iron flipping whatevers up mountains and swimming the English Channel...

Heart Health Hangs A Left. Is Butter Back?

All week, we’re going off-road to explore heart health along paths you knew were there, but are definitely the road less traveled by conventional sources. Science is all over the map on this one, but on average things seem to be much better for butter lately. The chart to...

Heart Health Hangs A Left: Bout Dat Beef

All week, we’re going off-road to explore heart health along paths you knew were there, but are definitely the road less traveled by conventional sources. We’re not supposed to eat red meat because it’s fats are said to be bad for your heart. But, it’s a little more complicated...

Heart Health Hangs A Left. Eggcellent Eggs.

All week, we’re going off-road to explore heart health along paths you knew were there, but are definitely the road less traveled by conventional sources. Remember when eggs were bad for your heart? Remember when you were supposed to eat egg-white omelets and buy those cartons of “egg beaters”?...

Heart Health Hangs A Left: About That Salt

All week, we’re going off-road to explore heart health along paths you knew were there, but are definitely the road less traveled by conventional sources. Okay, so. The whole salt thing. It’s true that too much sodium is bad … but butting in with a huge BUT is the...

Heart Health Week Hangs A Left: About That Wine

All week, we’re going off-road to explore heart health along paths you knew were there, but are definitely the road less traveled by conventional sources. Okay, let’s say your doctor gave you a prescription to take some medication one time per day. You, however, thought if 1 is good,...

Chocolate Week, Love, and V-Day

Love is a red thread running through all good things: success in relationship, in diet, in exercise, in nutrition, in work, in play, in [fill in the blank]. BUT. Although love is many things, it is not consumption, nor ownership, lust nor lasciviousness, ownership nor control. And the love...

Chocolate Week, Metabolism, and Spock-level Logic

You think it’s crazy. But just follow this logic. High cocoa chocolate does increase blood flow to muscles. –> This results in an increase in oxygenation and nutrients to the muscular tissue. –> This results in an increase in the number of energy producing mitochondria in the muscles. –>...

Chocolate Week. Yeah, We’re Doing This.

It’s Chocolate Week. Just remember the three main rule for eating your chocolate. About That QUALITY: #1. Darker Is Better, #2. Darker Is Better, #3. Darker Is Better About That QUANTITY: Eat small, and make what you do have last in your mouth as long as possible. That way you get all...

Chocolate Biscotti

This chocolate biscotti is perfect Valentine’s Day treat! Biscotti derives from medieval Latin and means “baked twice.” Most people enjoy this after it’s cooled and hardened but try it fresh out of the oven, too! You’ll Need: 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 2/3 cups...

Your Brain Called. It Asked For A Little More Light.

About 95% of the things going on in your head, are things you are completely unaware of. Awareness skates along the thin ice veneer of consciousness. Light itself is one of those things that affect us, under the hood, subconsciously moving the emotional needle in one direction or another....