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Nutrition

Max Learns About Fatty Liver. And Fructose.

by Eugene Thong on September 21, 2009

Last night my foster son picked my brain regarding diabetes (his birth father is a Type 2 diabetic). While the entire car-ride conversation was ripe fodder for a blog post, what I’m going to recount here is our discussion on fatty liver, fructose, and diabetes.
What is fatty liver?
Fatty liver is an excess buildup of [...]

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Glut 4 Redux.

by Eugene Thong on July 16, 2009

The problem with being a know-it-all is that other people assume (not surprisingly) that you know it all.  Then, when a particularly bright (and well-researched) client says something like this:
I think modulation of the GLUT4 transporter is probably the key to the whole insulin sensitivity issue post exercise.  What do you think?
…you can only shrug [...]

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Post Workout Nutrition – Milk and Cereal?

July 10, 2009

Every once in awhile (ok, well; often) a client will pass along a news story that’s so far off the mark that it makes me go Super Saiyan.  Here’s the latest one:
Cereal and Milk is the New Sports Supplement, Says Study.
Briefly, the new study looked at using a whole foods source – in this case, [...]

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The Restaurant Analogy.

June 18, 2009

Often I’m asked why I disagree that fat loss is “merely a game of calories in vs. calories out” and maintain that it’s a function of hormonal tone.  Gary Taubes makes an interesting analogy:
If you owned a restaurant and hired me as a consultant to help you figure out why business is down, and I [...]

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Priorities: Part 2, or Nutrition in 5 Easy Questions.

June 11, 2009

In Part 1 of this mini-series, I proposed that creating an algorithm can help you minimize confusion and help you to wade through the muck of needlessly complex training systems out there.  I proposed a general method of cataloging “valid” exercise systems based on emphasis on strength, progression, and recovery.  Part of why it’s difficult [...]

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The Latest NEJM Study.

February 26, 2009

Today’s New England Journal of Medicine had a special surprise for anyone interested in diet composition and weight loss.  By now, you’ve undoubtedly read or heard one of the headlines:
Want To Lose Weight?  Just Eat Less.
It’s Not What You Eat, It’s How Much.
Stick To a Low-Cal Diet and It Will Work. (This was my personal [...]

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Real Food is Better For You.

September 29, 2008

…in almost every single case.
Take this picture from Regina Wilshire’s blog, for instance:

While corn isn’t the best of all possible choices for you (it is a cereal grain, after all), you can easily see how eating the actual foodstuff is far, far better than its synthetic counterpart (that’d be high fructose corn syrup).
Corn growers would [...]

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Odds and Ends.

September 28, 2008

First off, I’d like to apologize for my spotty postings as of late.  Post-summer is usually a busy season for personal training but I’ve found the demand this year to be (literally) almost overwhelming.  Please bear with me as I play catch-up.
In the meantime, here’s a list of things off the top of my head:
In [...]

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Michael Phelps’ Diet.

August 14, 2008

Today, as I trained my clients, not one session went by without talk about The Diet.
Yes, Michael Phelps‘ diet. I’ll refrain from passing judgment and try to talk about it from an athlete’s POV, as I feel news articles are sensationalizing Phelps – “What a freak.”
The question. “How can he eat all that [...]

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About Blood Sugar.

July 30, 2008

A client of mine asked me about his blood sugar yesterday and it occurred to me that writing an overview of blood sugar is in order (since I rant so about keeping insulin levels low, avoiding concentrated sources of carbohydrates, etc.).
First, what’s normal blood sugar?
The normal range for a fasted state is between 80 to [...]

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