I remember when I was 15 years old thinking to myself, “If I live to be 65 years old, that means I’ll be around for 50 more years. Wow, that’s a long time!” When you were 15, 50 years seemed like forever, didn’t it? We’ve all had these kinds of thoughts when we were young….
Could Your Dish Towels Make You Sick?
If you’re a regular visitor to our site, you’re probably someone who wants your diet to be dominated by healthy, clean food. You want to eat food to be nutrient dense and free from plant toxins (gluten, lectins, etc.), free from poisonous chemicals (glyphosate), and free from nasty bacteria. Sometimes, though, our efforts can be…
How To Use The MyFitnessPal App On Your Mobile Device
In a previous post, I showed you how to use the MyFitnessPal app to calculate your daily food consumption for a ketogenic diet. For Barbara and me, this app has been absolutely essential to our keto diet success story. However, shortly after publishing that post, I realized that most of our friends…
Our Keto Journey Part 5: Important Tweaks We Made For Keto Success
You’re now familiar with what a keto diet is and how ketosis affects your body. You’ve established why you want to go keto (e.g.. weight loss, help in treating a specific health condition, or enhanced physical performance). And you’ve solved the mystery of macro calculation. So now…
Our Keto Journey Part 4: How We Calculate Our Keto Diet Macros
In this fourth post in our series Our Ketogenic Diet Journey, I’ll give you a behind the curtains peek at how Barbara and I configured our ketogenic diet. The keto diet with its amazing health benefits is finally becoming mainstream. More and more people are turning to the diet as an effective…
Our Keto Journey Part 3: Defeating A Skinny Fat Body And Healing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
This is part 3 of our series Our Keto Journey. In John’s case, he wasn’t overweight, but he did have a metabolically dangerous fat issue that required he go keto. Surprisingly, there may be up to 30 million people in the United States with this same problem, but …
Our Keto Journey Part 1: The Keto Diet Is Hot! Here’s Why
Barbara and I have been on a ketogenic diet for about six months, and we are absolutely amazed at the results. I’ve lost inches. She’s lost inches. And we’re both full of energy. To tell you the truth, the diet wasn’t even that difficult to configure or stay on. From our perspective, it wasn’t restrictive…
How to Recompose Your Dad Bod in Less Than a Year (Even if You’re in Your Fifties)
Okay, guys. You’ve put your kids through school. Your mortgage is almost paid. Your job… well, we won’t dwell on that. It could always be better, right? You’ve come to that place in life where you can finally start to think about living the dream. But then you start to notice little things about yourself….
Want To Live Longer? Then Keep Your Spouse As Healthy As You Are
Do you want to live longer? Okay, that’s a stupid question. Of course, you do. Here’s an excellent way to help that happen. Make sure your spouse is as healthy and fit as you are. Now, you might ask, “If I’m already healthy and fit, how will a fit and healthy spouse help…
Will My Friend Jerry Ever Beat Diabetes And Obesity? Part 2: Winning The Battle
A few weeks back, I wrote about my friend Jerry’s (name changed) ongoing battle with heart disease, obesity, and type 2 diabetes. See part 1 here. He’s been out of the hospital for about six weeks. I spoke to him today, and he says he’s lost about 30 pounds, his blood glucose is under control,…
Will My Friend Jerry Ever Beat Diabetes And Obesity? Part 1
Recently, I went to the hospital to visit my friend Jerry (name changed). He was recovering from heart failure. He’s also obese, a type 2 diabetic taking insulin and a slew of other meds for various conditions. As I entered his room, he was in the middle of eating his lunch. I was shocked at what his medical team thought was a healthy meal…
Saturated Fats Won’t Kill You: The Important New PURE Study
Barbara and I have been following a gluten-free, low-carb, healthy-fat way of eating (LCHF) for about 8 months. And we’ve had outstanding results. Both of us have lost over 15 pounds and, importantly, we’ve kept it off. Some of that weight was water but most of it was that fatty baggage that everyone hates so…
Don’t Be Fooled Again: The FDA Allows Soybean Oil To Be Marketed As Heart Healthy
The government just can’t seem to stop telling us what foods are good for us and which are bad. They did it again last week. The FDA gave their approval for companies to market soybean oil as a heart healthy ingredient. This doesn’t just mean that soybean oil can be marketed as heart healthy.
My Quickest Recovery From Back Spasms: Did A Strong Back Help?
Two Saturdays ago, I was bending down to put something into my freezer when a severe pain shot through my lower back. In the words of Forrest Gump, it felt like something jumped up and bit me. I knew what it was right away. Every one to two years my lower back goes into spasm….
The American Heart Association Says Coconut Oil Is Going To Kill You. Why They’re Wrong!
Doesn’t it seem that nearly every time we’re told by dietary experts that something is really healthy for us, eventually we find out that it’s really not? Or something we thought was harmful actually turns out to be quite healthy? Back in the early 80s, I was working at a hospital where several staff members…