a bodybuilder who “gets it!”
I leveraged some of this from a blog by Jason Ferruggia, one of the few bodybuilders who actually knows better than to drink whey protein shakes:Many of you know that dairy is not good for getting lean, and that consumption of dairy products has been linked to a decreased immune response. Most of us [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →Who you gonna call: Part V Really expensive candy that won’t make you healthy
Moving on to the Xocai chocolate people: they have a great sales pitch! They show the ORAC score of cacao (chocolate), and it’s way impressive. Right up there with goji berries. I like to use a little raw cacao for that very reason, in my recipes. But, my friends . . . [...]
10 Comments • Continue Reading →Who you gonna call, Part IV: network-marketed juices, pills, candy, and skin creams . . .
The juices . . . Xango, Noni, Pharmanex, and some brand-new ones . . . I’ll get some furious emails for this one, because the juice folks are plentiful and have absolute religious fervor about their $30 bottles of juice from the tippy tops of mountains half a world away. There’s a new [...]
1 Comment • Continue Reading →Who you gonna call? Part III: nutrition advice from personal trainers
My friend Cheryl told me at the gym the other day that she got online with a “Virtual Personal Trainer.” This guy has quite a following here locally and helped a friend of Cheryl’s. She said to the trainer, “I’m trying to be vegan. Can you help me increase my muscle mass [...]
4 Comments • Continue Reading →Who you gonna call? Part II: I have more stuff to say about the diet docs
I thought I was done taking down the high-protein, fad-diet, doctor-scam-artists. But I want to say a bit more, starting with this quote from “Dr. Atkins’ Health Revolution”: “Imagine losing weight with a diet that lets you have bacon and eggs for breakfast, heavy cream in your coffee, plenty of meat and even [...]
4 Comments • Continue Reading →Who you gonna call? Part I: fat diet doctors and celebs
This starts a multi-part blog about the false gods we worship in the field of nutrition. First, I often wonder why people buy diet programs from overweight doctors in poor health. The worst offender is Dr. Robert Atkins. I would say “was,” but of course his company and family are still raking in [...]
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