Is it better to meal prep or to cook as you go throughout the week? While eating as you go may feel more convenient, Coach Kourtney laid out five reasons to add meal prepping into your routine to hit all of your fitness, weightless, and health goals.
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The new year is fast approaching - while our team highly recommends keeping your health front and center year-round, there is no doubt that a fresh year gives many the opportunity to realign to their goals and set healthy lifestyle practices to carry them through the future. One of the tried-and-true diets that you have likely heard of is the Keto Diet, or Ketogenic Diet. Curious about Keto? Our resident trainer, coach Kourtney Koehler caught up with us to chat through the basics of this diet, how to get started, and the weight loss benefits that come with going into ketosis.
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We’ve heard it from our doctors, teachers, trainers, nutritionists, parents, and friends. The advice to stay hydrated can even seem preachy or redundant at times. So what’s the deal? What happens if you don’t drink enough water? How can you tell? and do you really need to drink the recommended 8 glasses per day?
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Halloween can be a bit of a nightmare for families trying to live a healthier lifestyle. A night of trick or treating results in an excess of low-quality sweets for the whole family to indulge in. Sure, you want to celebrate in moderation, but how exactly do you find that balance when there’s so much candy around and they all seem equally as frightening and sugary?
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Ever since fat was demonized, people started eating more sugar, refined carbs, and processed foods instead.
As a result, the entire world has become fatter and sicker. However, times are changing. Studies now show that fat, including saturated fat, isn’t the devil it was made out to be (1, 2). All sorts of healthy foods that happen to contain fat have now returned to the “superfood” scene.
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What is the current recommendation on eating eggs and heart health? Read on to find out
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It happens to the best of us. You’ve been eating clean Paleo or maybe you’re on the 21-Day Sugar Detox and you’re feeling amazing. Then suddenly you feel like you’ve been hit by a ton of bricks. Ugh. You’re coming down with a cold. Or even worse-the flu. If you’ve been living a Paleo or 21-Day Sugar Detox type lifestyle for a while, this is likely a rarity, but it happens. So, you want to know-how do I treat a cold or the flu naturally?
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If you are having sleep problems, whether you are not able to fall asleep, wake up too often, don’t feel well-rested when you wake up in the morning, or simply want to improve the quality and quantity of your sleep, try as many of the following techniques below as possible:
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Apologies for that headline.
By now, most folks are aware that eggs are not unhealthy despite their high cholesterol content. (Though not everyone, because Eggbeaters is still in business!) Eggs contain quality protein, fat, and important vitamins and minerals. Most of the nutrition is found in the yolk of the egg, which is why we’re making the yolk this week’s Smart Fuel.
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A few years ago, I wrote an article about the often devastating effects that antibiotics can have on the gut flora. While it’s extremely important to avoid unnecessary antibiotic use, what about those who have carefully considered their options and decided that antibiotics are necessary in their situation? Is there no hope for recovering a healthy microbiome?
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This week, CBSSports.com’s three-part series on nutrition in the NBA will explore players from Dwight Howard and Derrick Rose to Blake Griffin and Ray Allen who’ve adopted similar nutritional approaches to achieve a variety of goals. In Part II, players discuss their experience with the caveman diet.
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Many Paleo Dieters recognize the name, Jillian Michaels, who is best known as a personal athletic trainer on NBC’s reality television show, The Biggest Loser. She recently commented upon The Paleo Diet on a video “Paleo Diet Daily Dose with Jillian Michaels | Everyday Health” trending on YouTube.
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Resting before a competition is a delicate balance, more so than people seem to think or realize. If you spend too much time resting and inactive, your body will respond negatively and you will have reduced energy levels and delayed response time to the intensity of the workouts you will put it through in a competition setting. On the other hand, inadequate rest will cause you to go into a competition sore and fatigued, effectively shutting your body down from overuse. Different athletes respond differently to higher volume training, and many of you will have an idea by now of how you respond to multiple workouts in a week.
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Despite rumors to the contrary, I’m actually not on a rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth, steak-fueled mission to unveganize the world. My own diet is mostly plants, and I benefit in no way—financially or otherwise—if you decide to put an egg in your mouth instead of a lump of texturized vegetable protein. My sole goal with this blog is to squash out bad science and give folks access to accurate information about diet. What you decide to do with the stuff I say here is completely up to you.
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Are you noticing a theme here?
For the past month or so, we’ve been discussing all things brain health, including how insulin resistance and gluten sensitivity damage our noodles, how a brain on fire can leave us feeling foggy, and the role of hormonal imbalances in neurotransmitter and mood issues.
Plus, our pal Jim Kwik — he’s on UW Radio Monday night, by the way — invited us to learn his best kept secrets and strategies for upgrading your memory, recall, and learning speed in this FREE video series.
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Many of you have been asking- “What can I do to bring my body fat
percentage down.” The easy answer is- step it up in the gym- maybe add
one extra training session to your week. But, the truth of the matter
is- just working out won’t bring that number down- You really need to
focus on your diet.
Before you can hope to make it as a speculator and start slingin’ barrels for big money, you’ve got to understand exactly what’s gushing forth from the earth’s crust. Yes, that’s right – it doesn’t start and stop just with crude, and there’s far more to oil than dinosaur bones. In fact, most experts agree that the bulk of crude oil is derived from prehistoric single-celled plankton remains. Then you’ve got the abiogenic theory, which posits that…
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What's to be avoided on the Paleo Diet? Read on to find out.
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Mineral-Rich Bone Broth (Beef & Garlic)
Yield: Approximately 14 servings.
Ingredients
This recipe make approximately 64oz of broth depending on how much water, how much you reduce the broth and how strong you like the flavor to be.