by bnadmin | Jul 27, 2018 | Intermittent Fasting
The History: The practice of fasting dates back thousands of years, and has been recorded in time since the time of Hippocrates and Plato. Even long before that, food scarcity was a common occurrence – it’s highly unlikely our predecessors ate three balanced meals per...
by bnadmin | Mar 12, 2018 | Gut Health
Probiotics Biologists have long known that the bacteria, protozoa, fungi, yeast, and other microbes that inhabit the guts of all animals can play a key role in their ability to survive. Examples: Termites cannot digest cellulose and so they depend on gut microbes to...
by bnadmin | Aug 30, 2017 | Nutrition
The term clean eating is very popular nowadays, but what does “clean eating” even mean? Margaret McCartney, GP, notes in the British Medical Journal, “The command to eat cleanly implies that everyone else is filthy, being careless with their bodies and lives. It comes...
by bnadmin | Jan 26, 2017 | Exercise
In the last few weeks I have seen, what I fondly call the “Resolutioners” at the gym. These are new gym-goers, who push themselves to sweat on the treadmill, then the bike, then onto the elliptical machine for hours and hours. Other “Resolutioners” are...
by bnadmin | Dec 7, 2016 | Diets and Dieting, Holidays
It’s that time of year when extra calories are lurking … everywhere! There are frosted cookies, sugar cookies, jelly donuts, holiday parties, candy at the office, family get-togethers, and let’s not forget … the booze! All these extras add up, and if...
