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How to Properly Design Your Diet – Part Five

Up to this point, I’ve provided some basic terminology definitions and talked about the overall concepts when constructing your first successful diet. In this post, I will be moving onto determining if your calculated TDEE values match with real world food intake. I’d highly urge you to read parts one, two, three, and four if […]

How to Properly Design Your Diet – Part Four

In the first parts of this series, we went over definitions and the basics on how to find your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) using the Katch-McArdle formula. Please read the first three parts of this series if you have not done so already.

Let’s start off talking about what type of foods make the […]

How to Properly Design Your Diet – Part Three

In parts one and two, we laid out the foundation for the concepts we’ll be covering in part three. If you haven’t done so I would urge you to read them now.

As you recall, we’ve calculated our TDEE at 2454kCals/day. In theory, this would be the amount of calories we would need to consume […]

How to Properly Design Your Diet – Part Two

In part one, we laid the groundwork and defined some terminology that will be used throughout these posts. If you have not done so already, I’d urge you to read through it to make sure you are up to speed before reading on.

This post is going to focus on the first steps associated with […]

How to Properly Design Your Diet – Part One

Two of the questions I get asked most often are “what should I eat” and “how much should I eat if my goal is (insert goal here)”. This is a very complex topic and one that I have a tough time answering in casual conversation due to the depth in which I want to take […]

The Paleo Diet – Comprehensive Review

When I was a kid, my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we’d all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn’t until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear… – Jack Handy

I have been […]

Epidemiological Studies and Killer Red Meat

This week, Harvard published the results of a study which concluded:

Red meat consumption is associated with an increased risk of total, CVD, and cancer mortality. Substitution of other healthy protein sources for red meat is associated with a lower mortality risk.

I wasn’t even going to bother writing about it due to its utter […]

These Aren’t The Droids You’re Looking For

Bodybuilding.com is one of the largest online communities on the web. Occasionally I will check out their articles as they typically have guest postings by many high profile athletes in the fitness and bodybuilding industry. Recently my bullshit detector went off and it really drove home the points I made in my introductory post on […]