Nutrition Basics (42)
Vitamins and minerals are organic substances and required by the body on a daily basis to maintain good health and bodily functioning.
How many of you are aware about pH? And how many of you are aware of just how important it is to keep it carefully balanced within the body?
One of the most frequent, and yet fundamentally important, questions that we get asked at BodyActive is how many calories should I eat to gain/lose weight. How much protein do I need, how much carbohydrates can I eat and am I…
By Alan Aragon: www.alanaragonblog.com / http://www.printfection.com/brainygear (clothing line) Introduction A longstanding belief in fitness circles is that the body can only use a certain amount of protein per meal, and the excess is either oxidized or excreted. The ballpark range…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com In A Primer on Dietary Fats – Part 1, I looked at some basic concepts related to dietary fat/lipids including the different primary types of lipid (triglycerides, cholesterol and the ‘other stuff’) as well as the difference…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com For the past 30 years or so, ever since people started talking about cholesterol and heart disease, there has been a combination of concern and confusion over the topic of dietary fats in the diet. In…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com Q: I read in quite a lot of places that fish oil capsules or cod liver oil are a great supplement for controlling inflammation and improving nutrient partitioning, but no one gives any information about dosing.…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com In a Primer on Dietary Carbohydrates – Part 1, I took a brief look at what carbohydrates are and listed the three primary categories of dietary carbohydrates which are monosaccharides, oligosaccharides and polysaccharides. As well, I looked…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com Having previously done a fairly detailed Primer on Dietary Fats, I wanted to do something similar on the topic of carbohydrates (in the future I’ll do one for protein as well). In this article, I’m not going…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com Years ago I remember lamenting (and writing somewhere) that I was fairly sick of reading research papers on how eating more fiber was good for people, how it was time for nutritional science to move into relatively…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com A perennial question, argument and debate in the field of nutrition has to do with how many carbohydrates people should be eating. While the nutritional mainstream is still more or less advocating a large amount of daily…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com In Carbohydrate and Fat Controversies: Part 1, I begun an examination of the argument over carbohydrate and fat intakes in the human diet, explaining that, contrary to popular argument, most extremist stances in this debate are incorrect.…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposotion.com In this article, I want to look at carbohydrate and fat intake in terms of the various arguments and debates that tend to surround them. The main controversy here revolves around what amounts of carbohydrates and/or fat…
