This will be the last article in my mini-series on personalized nutrition starting points. The last for now… I have a lot more topics to cover in regards to personalized nutrition, but they’ll have to wait. To recap, here are the topics I covered in this run: The Person Basic Lifestyle Guidelines Protein Hydration FoodContinue reading “Personalized Nutrition: Food Sensitivities”
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Personalized Nutrition: Meal Timing & Frequency
Time to write about timing. I’ve been writing a whole series on personalized nutrition, starting with The Person, then discussing the importance of Basic Lifestyle Guidelines, following that with Protein, Hydration, and Food Quality. Today, I want to help answer the questions, “When should I eat?” and, “How many times should I eat per day?” When Should IContinue reading “Personalized Nutrition: Meal Timing & Frequency”
Personalized Nutrition: Food Quality
With my 5th blog in this series about personal nutrition, I’m talking about food quality. You can check out the other articles in this series here: Where To Start With Personalized Nutrition Personalized Nutrition: BLGs Personalized Nutrition: Protein Personalized Nutrition: Hydration Food Optimization When I teach people about food quality, I start with the conceptContinue reading “Personalized Nutrition: Food Quality”
Personalized Nutrition: Hydration
Wait… hydration again? I’ve been talking about personalized nutrition, and I already addressed hydration a couple of days ago in a bullet point under “Basic Lifestyle Guidelines.” Well, hydration is important enough to talk about more than once. I talk to clients about hydration first when we’re working on the ‘foundation’ that is their healthyContinue reading “Personalized Nutrition: Hydration”
Personalized Nutrition: Protein
The topic of this series is personalized nutrition. I began by talking about the person (the one whose nutrition is being -ized), and then about practicing some basic lifestyle guidelines as a starting point. Today’s topic is the first consideration that’s actually about food: protein. Protein First Why is protein first? Because of satiety andContinue reading “Personalized Nutrition: Protein”
Personalized Nutrition: BLGs
This is the second blog in a series I’m writing about personalized nutrition. The whole idea behind personalized nutrition is that you eat what is right for you, NOT what is right for someone else (or what sells the most of a particular product, pays lobbyists’ salaries, or is trending on Twitter right now). PersonalizedContinue reading “Personalized Nutrition: BLGs”
Where To Start With Personalized Nutrition
This week, I’m going to talk a bit about personalized nutrition. This is a concept I’ve brought up frequently in my blog, but now I’m going to break it down in a bit more detail over several days. The concepts I’m going to cover will include: The Person Basic Lifestyle Guidelines Protein Hydration Food QualityContinue reading “Where To Start With Personalized Nutrition”
When Goals Change, Make a New Plan (Skill Levels Revisited)
I wrote about the Skill Level system a while back and I want to revisit that today in light of the 7 questions I asked over the past two weeks, and talk about how my approach to these goals has changed recently. 7 Questions Who am I? Well, I could give some pretty lengthy andContinue reading “When Goals Change, Make a New Plan (Skill Levels Revisited)”
A Day of Rest
Every day, I write my workout up on the whiteboard. Sometimes that whiteboard says, “Rest Day.” What does that mean exactly? Why is it important? How does this concept extend into other areas of our lives? Saturdays Way, way, way back in the day, the Egyptians used to make their slaves work a 10-day weekContinue reading “A Day of Rest”
All Power to All the People
This week, I’ve been talking about 3 big problems that face us as individuals, and hurt our collective well-being: Many people are living meaningless and dishonest lives. Many people are moving minimally and insufficiently. Many people are eating only for emotions and mouth pleasure. In answer to these, I have proposed 3 solutions: Be yourContinue reading “All Power to All the People”
SMART, FIT, AND CLEAN 