The latest trend in the fitness industry is Outdoor Bootcamps, these camps are popping up in every park in every city in the UK. Bootcamps offer a great alternative to plush health clubs and their joining fees, expensive monthly payments, 1 year tie in contracts and aggressive 3 months cancellation notice periods. You see, when … Read more
Carbohydrate loading should be done leading up to an important event such as a half marathon, marathon, triathlon or other endurance event where for 3-4 days prior to the event you can safely carbohydrate load as outlined by the AIS, and after having completed the event eat normally again. It might still be wise to … Read more
In the example from the AIS below the foods, although high in carbohydrates, are also low in nutrition. Consider the kerbs’ cycle and electron transport chain (I can see you eyes glazing over here but bear with me). You don’t need to understand all the chemical reactions, just the fact that in order to turn all … Read more
Carbohydrate loading is a strategy employed by athletes that involves reducing training volume whilst simultaneously increasing the amounts of carbohydrates consumed in the days leading up to a game or event. The aim is to up regulate an enzyme called glycogen synthase (an enzyme that creates muscle fuel called glycogen) and cause the muscles to … Read more
Carbohydrate loading is a concept that both athletes and the general pubic know of. This is largely due to the marketing of carbohydrate based products such as whole grains, sugary snack foods and sports drinks being the champion or elite sports performance, and in some part to information passed on via successful ex-elite athletes extolling … Read more
Re-branding high fructose corn syrup or the artificial sweetener aspartame will not change the fact that they are poisonous junk foods that cause insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure, but this is exactly what the manufacturers of both products are doing. Both The Corn Refiners Association in the US who make … Read more
Some research came out last week that suggested that high dose B vitamins can help protect the brain from the signs of aging such as early onset dementia. This is great news as nutritionists have been arguing for years that supplements are good for your health and help prevent disease. We have also been arguing … Read more
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I was glad to see today in the news that some research has come out to show that eating 80g of watercress a day can reduce the risk of breast cancer. Now, most good nutritionists have known this for years but it’s great that mainstream science and medicine is catching up. Watercress contains nutrients called … Read more
Fruit juice is portrayed as a healthy food and conventional medicine and dieticians will tell you that fruit can be one of your “5 a day”. However, I’m going to show you some research that blows this out of the water.
Now, we all know that we are supposed to get 5 portions of fruit and veg a day, and I would bet that most people either don’t manage to eat this or just eat several portions of fruit a day to make up for the shortfall in vegetables. We are led to believe that fruit … Read more
So, this week we’ve talked about how saturated fat may not be the evil fat that is portrayed by the media and conventional medicine, but how trans fat are; and we have also talked about how margarine (that often times contains trans fats) is not heart healthy as it is portrayed and that using butter … Read more