If you are looking for the promise of quick weight loss, you may want to look into the cucumber diet. While you will find no shortage of variations of this diet online, most of the claims you'll read in those posts hyping the benefits will lead you to believe you can lose up to 15 pounds in about a week. While that is enticing, I had to dig in with my skeptics hat firmly on … [Read more...]
How Can I Lose Prednisone Weight Gain?
I recently had a diagnosis that really affects the way I eat and train, at least in the short term. I've been told I have IGA Nepropathy, which is a kidney disease. To spare you the long and short of it, basically I have severe inflammation and even scarring in my kidney, and it's ability to process proteins was weakened when they found my creatinine levels were very high. … [Read more...]
Stop Counting Calories
This post is a bit of a piggyback off of another post that I wrote recently about the portion control diet. If you are someone who thinks that in order to lose weight you need to be meticulously counting all of the calories you are consuming, and all of the calories you are burning through physical activity, today is your day to rejoice! While the math checks out in that … [Read more...]
Does a Portion Control Diet Work?
When it comes to losing weight, there is all kinds of advice that comes from all areas in your life. You can't pull up a news website without being blasted with health articles. "Eat this, don't eat that". Your social media is full of influencers that are touting the latest diet fad, whether it be a meal plan or supplement. For all of the different diet advice that you come … [Read more...]
How Diet Can Increase Male Fertility
Often times when a couple is trying to get pregnant, all of the focus is on the woman's fertility. They strategically engage in sex during the appropriate time of the month to capitalize on the female's "fertile week", and she may also begin taking supplements to boost her fertility levels as well. What is often ignored and not considered, however, is making sure that the … [Read more...]
