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I'm often asked if I juice. Not steroids, but with fruits and vegetables. The answer is I don't. I remain unconvinced that juicing offers the health benefits its fans claim. Before I get attacked in...
Read more →A new season means a new installment for my seasonal approach series to nutrition and fitness. Last year I was inspired to see what would happen if I altered my diet and activity based off the...
Read more →I wanted to better understand what happened between the paleolithic age and agriculture. This book came highly recommended. !The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution...
Read more →This book is considered a masterpiece in the study of human nutrition. !Nutrition and Physical Degeneration Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price was published in 1939 and might be...
Read more →At the start of autumn, I posted Fall Strategies For Nutrition and Fitness, where I outlined my seasonal approach to a low-carb/paleo diet. > The premise is that our bodies have growth and repair...
Read more →The publisher of Art De Vany's book was kind enough to send me an advance copy of The New Evolution Diet to read and review. It will be released tomorrow. !The New Evolution Diet: What Our...
Read more →Well fall is almost over, so I thought I provide an update on my Fall Strategies For Nutrition and Fitness post. This was the post that outlined how I would tweak my food and exercise under my...
Read more →Usually, I don't mind waiting a few months or years to get my hands on a library copy of a book. Not right now though. Here are four books that either just came out or will be coming out before the...
Read more →My nutritional mentors all have variations on what they believe is the optimal diet. This leads to endless debates among people smarter than me. I have no desire to jump into those nutritional...
Read more →This is a double book review. Actually, I listened to the audiobook format for both of these books. After reading The Selfish Gene, I was interested in reading something more recent on genetics. The...
Read more →In the past two weeks I have heard the disappointed voices of a few friends that were doing so well on their diets until summer came. Then all their progress stalled. I'm here to offer some...
Read more →I finished another great book on my reading list. !Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization by Spencer Wells is about the effects of...
Read more →I completed my 30 Days Without Sugar challenge. It wasn't hard at all. Actually it was quite easy and it just got easier. The purpose of the test was to see if I could detect any positive health...
Read more →In December 2008, I did a post titled No Jacket Required. It detailed my experiment with cold weather exposure. At the end of that winter I shared my results in the post Still No Jacket Required....
Read more →This is an outstanding book that challenged many of my beliefs about weight training. !Body by Science Body by Science by Doug McGuff and John Little makes a damn good case for super slow weight...
Read more →Last winter I did a cold weather exposure project that I named No Jacket Required. It involved going without a coat the vast majority of the winter. From the post Still No Jacket Required: > Other...
Read more →Last week when I realized that I was starting to get sick from the common cold, I decided to run an experiment on myself. You know how I love a good experiment. Anyway, I wanted to disprove the old...
Read more →It has been a while since I've done a long urban hike. There is a good reason. I am learning how to walk again. In April, The New York Magazine published a long, but great article by Adam Sternbergh...
Read more →I made another dish where the goal was vegetable variety. !stir-fry 1. garlic \ 2. red onion 3. red pepper 4. green chili pepper 5. yellow pepper 6. kale, both steam and leaf \ 7. green beans...
Read more →The newest trend in nutrition is actually the oldest trend. Evolutionary nutrition and fitness are gaining momentum online. When it comes to diet, I've been slowly moving in the evolutionary...
Read more →I think my head is full. So much information was delivered across 500+ pages. If I retain 10% of the information, I'll be happy. !Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Guns, Germs, and...
Read more →In earlier posts, I covered how cold weather exposure may trigger a fat loss response by activating brown adipose tissue (BAT). It may also lead to muscle gains. There isn't much information on this,...
Read more →About five years ago, I read the first edition of The Warrior Diet. At the time I just shook my head thinking that this diet would not only be impossibly hard to follow but that it couldn't be true....
Read more →It appears that winter is over, so I'm ready to file my report on project No Jacket Required. To bring the new readers up to speed, this past winter I tested aggressive cold weather exposure on...
Read more →After reading Mean Genes, which was very broad in scope, I found this book which focused just on evolutionary medicine. !Evolving Health: The Origins of Illness and How the Modern World is Making Us...
Read more →My interest in early man continues. !Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts by Terry Burnham and Jay...
Read more →I stumbled onto this book and since I liked the title and cover, I decided to give it a read. !Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Vintage) Your Inner...
Read more →I just finished reading a great book on food and society. !Waistland: The (R)Evolutionary Crisis Behind Our Weight and Fitness Crisis Waistland: The (R)Evolutionary Crisis Behind Our Weight and...
Read more →When I was a kid one of the sports I participated in was basketball. It suited me a lot better than soccer or baseball. Although I was never a great player it was a lot of fun. Once I got to college...
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