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12 Reasons You’re Not Losing Fat

31. Jan, 2012 3 Comments Fat Loss, Nutrition

1) You’re Eating Too Many Carbs

This should be pretty obvious to most people by now, but there are still the old die-hards out there who swear that everyone should be consuming two grams of carbs per pound of bodyweight every day while maintaining a low fat intake. Load up on whole grains and fruit while cutting down on healthy, essential sources of fat like grass fed beef they’ll tell you.

Anyone experienced in physique transformation knows this is nonsense. Most people have a terrible tolerance for carbs, shitty insulin sensitivity and [...]

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Bulking & Cutting Revisited

23. Jan, 2012 23 Comments Nutrition

I’ve covered this topic before but judging by some of the questions I receive I may not have been clear enough. So I’m gonna try it again…

Fuck bulking and cutting.

Clearer?

The concept of bulking and cutting is old school bullshit that went out with fanny packs and jean shorts. For the initiated it means that you eat like crap for several months while training hard and heavy. The theory behind it is that it’s impossible to gain large amounts of muscle mass without getting fat in the process. So you accept [...]

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A Simple Way to Feel & Perform a Whole Lot Better

21. Dec, 2011 38 Comments Nutrition

What food you put in your body is probably the single most important decision you make every day. A lot of us have that down and always make very healthy choices. Or so we think…

Unfortunately, what’s a healthy choice for me may not be a healthy choice for you. Everyone reacts differently to certain foods. For the most part you can’t go wrong with lean protein, vegetables and berries. Those foods seem to be tolerated very well by the majority of people. Once you veer off that list it gets [...]

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My Three Years as a Vegetarian

12. Aug, 2011 54 Comments Nutrition

Fourteen months ago I ended my three year stint as a vegetarian. Here are the reasons why…

Firstly, I debated about even writing this article at all because the last thing I want is to start a whole debate about the morals and ethics of eating meat. For some reason a lot of people take it more seriously than religion and I don’t really want regular visitors to this site getting all fired up and arguing with each other about something so trivial.

But the fact of the matter is a lot [...]

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The War on Raw Milk

09. Aug, 2011 58 Comments Nutrition

Last Wednesday I drove over to Rawesome in Venice, like I do every week, to pick up some meat, produce and a little raw butter, cream and goat yogurt. I arrived at the tail end of a government raid in which the LAPD and government officials poured out all of the raw dairy and left with a flat bed truck full of produce, nuts and bison steaks.

We all know that it’s not in the best interest of big business/ big pharma for us to be healthy. Apparently selling healthy, organic [...]

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Lean Gaining- Keep it in Perspective

31. Jul, 2011 18 Comments Intermittent Fasting, Nutrition

Yesterday morning I woke up with the intention of going to Six Man in Manhattan Beach. It’s an annual volleyball tournament that attracts around nineteen hundred billion people and is known as the beach party of the summer. However, I had stayed out late the night before with some friends and really wasn’t feeling it. I didn’t have a sip of alcohol but I felt like I drank a dozen vodkas. That’s the funny thing about staying up late. I end up feeling exactly the same whether I drink or [...]

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How Much Protein Should You Eat Per Day?

26. Jul, 2011 19 Comments Nutrition

I have a great article for you today by my colleague, Brad Pilon. Brad is a super smart dude who knows more about nutrition than most people have forgotten. He’s also one of the few guys I rely on for dietary advice. Check it out…

The guy who invented the 4,4,9 calorie counts for Pro, Fats and Carbs

How Much Protein Should You Eat Per Day?
By Brad Pilon

You’d think by now we’d have a clear-cut answer to this question, but to tell you the truth, ‘how much protein’ is a question [...]

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The Fungus Link

30. Apr, 2011 51 Comments Nutrition

After 30 days of eating pie on The Renegade Diet

It was almost too weird of a coincidence. My obsession with digestive health led to an interest in fungus and parasites. I was reading a lot about these topics and I ordered a few more of Doug Kaufmann’s books to help address the candida issue I had and ignored for a while and many other digestive issues I had developed during my time as a vegetarian from too many grains and legumes (more on that in the future).

But right around the time I started reading more about I started to [...]

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Salmon Hash

05. Apr, 2011 4 Comments Nutrition

Here’s a tasty recipe from Dave Ruel’s brand new Metabolic Cooking guide. This recipe, as Dave says, is good when you have leftover salmon. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m obsessed with sweet potatoes. So when you combine them with one of my favorite sources of protein you get what I think is a pretty delicious meal.

Give it a shot and let me know how you like it.

Ingredients
•    8 oz salmon, cooked
•    1 tbsp olive oil
•    ¼ cup chopped onions
•    ¼ cup chopped red peppers
•    ¼ cup chopped green peppers
•    1 [...]

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Cut the Sugar

01. Apr, 2011 43 Comments Nutrition

My first hand experiences, coupled with all the reading and research I’ve done on sugar the last couple of years has me really down on it’s consumption by anyone at any time.

I honestly believe that it’s not really fit for human consumption. That is, of course, if optimal health and maximal performance are something that interests you.

It’s been said that one teaspoon of sugar lowers your immune system response for four hours.

Hell, just about anything physical ailment you can think of is made worse by sugar.

Do you have any [...]

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