Most of us can skate through our lives avoiding getting on the scale and not looking into a full-length mirror so we can avoid acknowledging the inevitable love-handles growing around our mid-sections. In the case of identical twins, Chris and Alex Van Tullenkens, there’s no escape from the vision of middle-age pudge that was slowly creeping up on the both of them. Both ... Continue Reading
8 Health-Destroying Lies About Fat
For many years now, we as a society have been told to stay away from saturated fats and work hard to lower our cholesterol. Since Western style disease prevention and nutrition are fairly rife with misinformation, possibly propagated by Big Pharma, is it any wonder that we’ve been spoon fed outright lies about the foods we eat as well as how we build our diets? Let's talk ... Continue Reading
Good Fat?
With an epidemic of obesity threatening a growing number of countries throughout the world, you've probably already heard about all of the negative aspects of dietary fat. It's true, fat is not only more calorie-dense than other dietary components like carbohydrates and protein, but it also tends to find a hiding place in some of our more decadent foods. Therefore, we may find ... Continue Reading