The wrong tool for the job at hand. Photo courtesy of Individual Thought As I mentioned last Thursday, I attended a CrossFit certification this past weekend. I wanted to touch on a conversation that I had with a trainer (not one of the trainers running... (read full article)
Photo courtesy of Rivney Ranch This is a guest post by Skyler Tanner. Skyler has been in the health, fitness, and physical performance field for nearly a decade. On top of constant self-experimentation, he maintains a large training client load in which... (read full article)
I have a post that I’ve left languishing for some time that I’ve just picked back up and started working on. It’s about dairy and the arguments for and against their inclusion in your diet. As luck would have it, I came across this... (read full article)
Let’s face it. Eventually, we all want something sweet. So when you do decide to make dessert at home, what sweetener should you reach for? What should you put in your coffee? We all know that it shouldn’t be anything with high-fructose... (read full article)
Souvlaki, The Greek Hamburger. Photo courtesy of Debliteck Ltd We’ve been to Italy; now let’s go to Greece, another supposed bastion of health with its “Mediterranean Diet”. From Athena to Athens and the Parthenon to the Pantheon,... (read full article)
Everybody has to do it. Every day. Waking up and getting started early can be one of the most important determinants of how your day will pan out. For many, there are those days when you feel like jumping out bed and tackling the next thing on your “to-do... (read full article)
Miguel Carrera posted a link to an interesting article in the comments of my recent post on whole grains. Published in BioMed Central, it is titled Agrarian diet and diseases of affluence – Do evolutionary novel dietary lectins cause leptin resistance?... (read full article)
Note: This is a guest post by Greg Davis. Modern Forager is no stranger to fasting, having reported on its potential benefits in several posts. But has one of the paleo/low-carb heavyweights, in Dr. Mike Eades, weighed in against the practice of intermittent... (read full article)
I finished Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal by Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm fame this past weekend. In this book, Salatin talks through all of the myriad government regulations standing in the way of building a truly burgeoning local food economy. He... (read full article)
