"The real cost of the food is paid somewhere."― Prince Charles (Prince of Wales) Hi Healthy Eating Action-Taker (HEAT~), A while back, when I always mentioned which cooking oils to be using, many past fitness training clients and even amongst friends would react exasperatedly comparing a bottle of extra virgin olive oil next to a bottle of that conventional soybean oil and say what almost everyone does at first glance: Why would I pay triple for the “same thing”? Fair question, but only at...
1 day ago • 6 min read
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” —Jim Rohn Hi Healthy-Eating Action-Taker (HEAT❤️🔥), Welcome to the second issue of the 🍏Nutrition No-Brainer Mini-Dive Series, sharing the swift science behind each of the 5 Nutrition No-Brainers: L – Limit High-Glycemic Choices E – Emphasize High Quality Protein A – Add Healthy Fats When Cooking S – Stick to Whole Foods T –Trust Nature’s Sweetness 💚If you might have missed Mini-Dive #1, take a quick review here. 🍏 Nutrition...
16 days ago • 4 min read
"No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means."― Maimonides Hi, Healthy Eating Action-Taker, Towards the time I had my final Family Medicine practical exam, my classmates started planning the "traditional fiesta", aka: Cake, sodas, snacks for the grading professors and everyone at the policlinic (nurses and other doctors there) where we do the evaluation. This is what every brigade seems to choose. Normally I wouldn't think twice. But after recovering from...
30 days ago • 5 min read
“Learning to eat for stable blood sugar is of paramount importance.” —Dr. Casey Means, Author of Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health Hi Healthy-Eating Action-Taker (HEAT), For the upcoming biweekly nuggets of 🍏Nutrition No-Brainer, we will be doing a Mini-Dive Series, sharing the swift science behind each of the 5 Nutrition No-Brainers: L – Limit High-Glycemic Choices E – Emphasize High Quality Protein A – Add Healthy Fats When Cooking S – Stick to...
4 months ago • 6 min read
“Healthy shouldn’t mean boring — it should mean clever and delicious. ” ― Irene Z., Author of 'Healthy Food That Doesn't Taste Healthy Cookbook' Hey there, Healthy Eating Action-Taker! Today, let’s not take healthy eating as some grandiose or difficult discipline, but make it far easier to apply daily in life: through a filter. How much easier would eating be if decisions were pre-made? Yet healthy eating today has become a labyrinth of confusing or difficult decisions. Because (and sorry to...
5 months ago • 8 min read
“Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes. ” ― Will Cuppy Hi there, healthy eating action-taker! I recently invited a friend to one of Havana's few juice spots I trust: no added sugar, actually boiled water, and using REAL fruit. It "costs more", but you're paying for what's ACTUALLY NATURAL. We both chose the same flavor. My reaction: clean, fresh, subtly sweet. My friend's: "This tastes kind of bad." I wasn't...
6 months ago • 4 min read
“Your body is a Temple. You are what you eat. Do not eat processed food, junk foods, filth, or disease-carrying food, animals, or rodents. Some people say of these foods, 'well, it tastes good'. Most of the foods today that statistically cause sickness, cancer, and disease ALL TASTE GOOD; it's well-seasoned and prepared poison. THIS IS WHY SO MANY PEOPLE ARE SICK; mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually; because of being hooked to the 'taste' of poison, instead of being hooked on...
9 months ago • 6 min read
“If you keep good food in your fridge, you will eat good food.” – Errick McAdams “I wish I had the self-discipline to eat like you.” That’s what someone told me when I shared my 30-day Nutrition No-Brainer challenge: 130g of high-quality protein a day as an ovo-lacto vegetarian and upholding all meals through my 5 Nutrition No-Brainer principles. Discipline in healthy eating seems so difficult since many people assume it’s all about restriction, guilt, shame and tribulation. Really, it’s a...
11 months ago • 10 min read
“The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison.” – Ann Wigmore Just like the scale doesn't tell you the difference between fat and muscle, and what you need to focus on for results are: performance, and body composition appearance, NOT the weight number... Calorie counting misses the bigger picture: NUTRIENT QUALITY and HORMONAL IMPACT matter MORE than just the "numbers"! What Are Calories? Calories measure energy, but specifically...
12 months ago • 5 min read