People who lift weights have a 25% lower risk of cancer, study finds Bigger muscles, improved strength – chances are you’re familiar with the benefits of hitting the weights room The pros of pumping iron are clear. But now there is an increasing amount of evidence suggesting people who lift Read more…
DEATH OF THE CALORIE For more than a century we’ve counted on calories to tell us what will make us fat. Peter Wilson says it’s time to bury the world’s most misleading measurePETER WILSON | APRIL/MAY 2019 The first time that Salvador Camacho thought he was going to die he was sitting in Read more…
The Key to Losing Weight Isn’t Diet or How Much Time You Spend in the Gym, It’s NEAT ___________ ___________ While losing weight is more about nutrition than exercise (anyone ever tell you “you can’t out-exercise a bad diet?”), activity definitely plays a role in burning fat and changing your Read more…
That low carb diet may not be as good for you as you think Wholly cutting out food groups is dangerous enough if you’re not careful about supplanting the important vitamins and nutrients with the right foods. Weight loss experts have been in a bitter wrangle with carbs for some Read more…
It’s well-known that exercise improves health, but understanding how it makes you healthier on a molecular level is the question researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center are answering. After performing experiments in both humans and mice, the researchers found that exercise training causes dramatic changes to fat. Additionally, they discovered that Read more…
Eating high fat and sugar diet makes you more likely to die of SEPSIS The immune systems of mice fed a Western diet functioned differently to normal The risk of sepsis appeared to be higher irrespective of weight or gut health Researchers are looking into whether high-fat diets like Atkins Read more…
Written By Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on January 8th, 2019 Vinegar has evidently been used as a weight-loss aid for nearly 200 years. Like hot sauce, it can be a nearly calorie-free way to flavor foods, and all sorts of delicious exotic vinegars—like fig, peach, and pomegranate—are available to choose from. The question, though, is Read more…
What I Learned During 13 Years Of Strength Training Sivan Fagan November 08, 2018 • 7 min read I’ve gone from being an 18-year-old with anorexia to a strength coach with more than a decade of experience. Here are the most important lessons I’ve learned along the way. It all Read more…
The Cure to Aging Could Be Hiding in Plain Sight Since the dawn of man, we’ve been searching for ways to escape our mortality. The long-sought “fountain of youth” may not lie in divine water or a miracle pill, but rather, in something as simple as the foods we eat and the Read more…
By Dr. Mercola Whole milk, cheese and butter have long been demonized as unhealthy, their saturated fatcontent incorrectly identified as a driver of obesity, heart disease and related health problems. We now know eating fat does not make you fat. Science has also demolished the idea that saturated fats clog Read more…