If lowering blood glucose were the cure for type 2 diabetes, the patients in the trial that lowered it the most would have lived the longest. The trial was stopped because the opposite happened. In 2008, a research team published the results of one of the largest, most carefully designed, and most expensive randomized controlledContinue reading “If lowering blood glucose…”
Tag Archives: Fitness Goals
Pre-Diabetes and Type 2
By the time your doctor diagnoses you, the damage has been accumulating for two decades. Here’s what they should have been testing for the entire time. I want to tell you something that no doctor ever told me before I started reading the research. Pre-diabetes is not the early stage of type 2 diabetes. ItContinue reading “Pre-Diabetes and Type 2”
Heart Disease and Metabolic Dysfunction
Heart disease isn’t a disease. It’s a symptom. Treat the cause.
We are not truly winning the war… heart disease
Open any cardiology textbook from the last decade and you’ll find some version of this: “The age-adjusted death rate from heart disease has dropped by approximately two-thirds since 1970. We are winning.” That sentence is true. It’s also one of the most misleading things in modern medicine. What actually happened Let’s start with the numbers,Continue reading “We are not truly winning the war… heart disease”
Heart Disease Hitting Younger and Younger
You’ve probably been told heart disease is something to worry about later. After 60. After 50, if you’re being safe. Definitely not in your 20s, 30s, or early 40s. That story is outdated, and the data is loud about it. According to the American College of Cardiology, the heart attack rate in adults under 40Continue reading “Heart Disease Hitting Younger and Younger”
The Truth on Fruit
The carnivore camp has one argument that deserves a real answer: modern fruit is not the fruit your ancestors ate. It’s been bred sweeter, bigger, and shipped year-round in a form evolution never prepared you for. On that specific point, they’re largely right. Where they overreach is the blanket dismissal — “fruit is toxic, fruitContinue reading “The Truth on Fruit”
The Truth about Veggies
The Vegetable Truth: What to Eat, What to Limit, What Elite Health Demands You Avoid The “eat your vegetables” mantra is one of the most oversimplified messages in modern nutrition. It assumes every plant is created equal, that more is always better, and that kale belongs on a pedestal. The truth is more nuanced —Continue reading “The Truth about Veggies”
The 80/20 Myth:Why “Flexible” Eating Rules Don’t Actually Build Health
The 80/20 Myth: Why “Flexible” Eating Rules Don’t Actually Build Health
Calories, don’t count them but make them count
I have written several blogs over the last few years on Nutrition including Strategic Eating, Why Diets Don’t Work, Eat Fat to Lose Fat, You have to eat to lose… just to name a few. These blogs are available at OneBadAssBITCH.com/blog. My own #fitnessjourney and #healthjourney has been so rewarding and ever evolving for betteringContinue reading “Calories, don’t count them but make them count”
WTF America ?!?!
Only 10% of Adult Americans ARE NOT clinally fat, obese, or teetering the line of increasing the current stat of 75% already there in poor #health and #fitness. 75% already there #fat and #obese 15% teetering meaning over fat, just not clinically a stat yet. Sadly, probably being told they are in good health andContinue reading “WTF America ?!?!”
