Articles on energy balance and nutrition
When I mention carbs, fats, and proteins what comes to your mind? Carbs are bad for you, fat is good for you, and protein helps build muscle, right? With today’s popularity of low carb or no carb …
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Can you count calories for the rest of your life? Of course not, that’s madness. Yet, that is exactly what many weight management programs are based upon. I was recently told that “counting calories …
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Question: what do you do when something unexpected comes up and you have to change your lunch plans at the last second? If you’re like most people you probably a) don’t eat anything or b) eat a …
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Hi, my name is Chelsea Torres and I’d like to tell you how I got into dietetics and why it isn’t quite what I thought it would be. I first became interested in nutrition my senior year in high school …
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Who doesn’t love free food? I mean, honestly, a box of donuts in the break room may be the only thing that keeps you from going crazy on a Tuesday morning that really feels like it should be a Friday …
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So, I was out sick with the flu all last week and in-between my 3:00am Siberian freezing sessions and daytime shirtless Sahara sweating sessions, I was too incapacitated to do any real work. But I did …
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Article Highlights: Recent interest in the Paleo diet has sparked public interest in eating based upon hunter-gatherer evolution. Interest in the Paleo diet has led to the adoption of the more …
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Fitness Nut swears that his/her program is the bee’s knees, the be all end all, greatest program that you need to be on to get fit. Truth is you don’t have to follow Fitness Nut’s program because …
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Eating healthy doesn’t happen overnight, it’s a life-long process of trial and error. For anyone who tells you otherwise, they’re wrong. You’re not going to fix your diet in one fell swoop. It …
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In Christianity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit make up the Blessed Trinity. They are all God, yet they are all distinct “beings” holding equal power and responsibility. Figure 1. The …
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During the past couple of years there has been a lot of talk about how Fitbit, once one of the hottest wellness items on the market, is “dead”. It’s true that many Fitbit (and other wearable device) …
Read More →Let’s face it, most diet/health & wellness books just plain suck. They tend to be incomplete, biased, myopic, hyper-focused, conspiracy laden, ill-informed, fad driven, flavor of the month texts …
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Let’s face it, when it comes to nutrition, everyone thinks they know nutrition, when in reality, their knowledge is probably quite limited. Now to be fair, this isn’t their fault. I mean, when you …
Read More →When I say, PIE, what comes to mind? Apple, cherry, strawberry, banana cream or pumpkin of course. Figure 1. Google Image Search of Pie. But that’s not what I’m referring to here. What I’m talking …
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In recent years, the word “paleo” has transcended the realm of scientific jargon and become commonplace in the American vocabulary. Sadly, this not due to the fact that Americans have suddenly become …
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Beginning in 1961, the American Heart Association (AHA) began recommending Americans reduce saturated fat intake. By 1973 the AHA went a step further in recommending Americans limit saturated fat …
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Food, drink, and the act of chewing brings us a certain degree of comfort, pleasure, and satisfaction. For millennia, people have utilized chewing (bark and/or tree sap) as a way to relieve hunger, …
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This post was written by MacKenzie Spears and Todd M. Weber. With so many options, claims, and prices what eggs should I buy? Picture courtesy Sweet Potato Chronicles . Have you ever stood in the egg …
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There is a widely held belief that health & wellness professionals (and especially dietitians) eat some type of “holier than thou, pristine diet”. Many dietitians feel like their diets are …
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The following article is a guest post written by MacKenzie Spears. You may have never even thought about it, but there are potential risks to consuming food with certain medications and/or over the …
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Read More →Every type of diet has its supporters: are you a low-fat, high-protein, low-carb, or Ketogenic supporter? I don’t have a problem with any of these diet types but what I do have a problem with is when …
Read More →Thank God. It’s that time of year again. Football season is upon us. Each season brings the sense of renewed hope, optimism, and promise. Last year your team might have stunk but with the start of a …
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This week’s article is a guest post written by my good friend, Jody Gavin. Like many women, my love/hate relationship with exercise started in college. College was the first time in my life I …
Read More →My good friend Mike Polis MS, RD, LD of Cornerstone Training and Nutrition and I recently put together a list of some of the most common nutrition misconceptions. Here are the top 6 that we came up …
Read More →It is a demoralizing and hopeless feeling to try as hard as you can and still fail. Effort does not meet reward. The reasons we experience failure are numerous, yet they all stem from one thing: we …
Read More →Although we sometimes don’t want to admit it, our bodies are the result of our lifestyles. We need to have these frank conversations; we need to be honest with ourselves. Once we do this, once we hold …
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Did you know that Everything You Eat Will Kill You? Yes, that’s right. Everything you eat will kill you! Or at least that’s what the media and many health & wellness professionals will lead you to …
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Return on investment (ROI) is a commonly used economic term to indicate the benefits (profits/returns) you get back from investing a resource (time/money). I have coined a term that I believe we …
Read More →All too often we are told what do to and are not shown how to do it. Online video, seminars, and lectures are great for disseminating large quantities of nutrition and exercise information, but how …
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“How many calories do I need to eat to lose weight?” is a question I hear all too often. When people ask this question they are seeking a simple answer to a complex question, a question that cannot be …
Read More →What is the “best” diet to lose weight? Low-carbohydrate? Low fat? High-protein? The answer is all of the above and none of the above. As I have mentioned in a previous blog post, there is a diet book …
Read More →What’s the number one piece of nutritional advice given out in the media, by friends, colleagues, and nutrition professionals? Eat more fruits and vegetables! Is it better for you to consume 5 fruit …
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In my previous blog post I pointed out that between eating 400 calories more per day than we consumed 40 years ago and moving 100 calories less during one’s workday than we did in years past, it is …
Read More →In my previous blog post I put the nutrition community on the spot by asking whether they are at fault for the increased prevalence of obesity in the United States. So many nutrition professionals are …
Read More →High fructose corn syrup, sugar sweetened beverages (soda), fast food restaurants, processed foods, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), gut microbiota, antibiotic exposure, cable television, video …
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When you try to visualize what a scientist looks like and what a scientist does on a day to day basis what comes to mind? You may picture a person in a white lab coat pipetting a tiny amount of …
Read More →How does this sound……..you go to post secondary school for 10 to 12 years, accumulate tens of thousands of dollars of debt, postpone several major adult decisions such as purchasing a …
Read More →This morning the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a national environmental health research and advocacy organization issued a new report detailing the dangers of eating fortified cereal and snack …
Read More →Recently I completed some part time work with a health promotion company that involved conducting a series of biometric screenings (height, weight, waist circumference, and blood pressure). Over the …
Read More →If I asked you to tell me what the most important thing in your life was, what would you say? Most likely your answer would involve your spouse, kids, family or job. How many of you would say fitness …
Read More →As a society, we like to make excuses. We have reasons why we don’t get certain things done or why we don’t accomplish certain tasks. We are a society of “well buts”. Well, I would have gotten that …
Read More →There is a diet book for everything and to some degree every diet book is based on exactly the same principles (more on this below). The pictures of the diet books shown below is by no means an …
Read More →This week Energy Balance Nutrition Consulting (EBNC) is officially releasing its new logo. The EBNC building blocks represent one of the key principles of our company: simplicity. Energy Balance …
Read More →I do not “diet”, but I do have a number of self-prescribed nutrition rules that help me to maintain my body weight and prevent any unwanted pounds. Establishing your own set of nutrition rules are an …
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These days the number of nutrition and fitness related articles in print, online, and on television is booming and there is definitely no shortage of opinions. In the spirit of unfounded opinions, I …
Read More →The following article is a guest post written by one of EBNC’s collaborators, Gina Battaglia, PhD. In an effort to reduce the obesity epidemic in the United States and other westernized …
Read More →If the human brain was unable to “filter out” nonessential incoming sensory information, we would become paralyzed by indecision, our sensory systems overwhelmed, and our brain unable to translate …
Read More →The human race has been around for thousands and thousands of years. During this time we have proven to be an ingenious species. We form complex, fulfilling, and lasting relationships with one …
Read More →I am going to be posting nutrition, exercise, and various health related content on this blog at least monthly and maybe more often. Most of the content will likely be my own but if I come across …
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