2,500 Calories Is Not 2,500 Calories: Why Food Quality Beats Calorie Counting A practical look at the energy balance model — what it gets right, what it leaves out, and why what you eat matters as much as how much. The Theory Everyone Knows “Energy in, energy out” is the foundation of how weight works,Continue reading “Calorie Deep Dive…”
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The Truth about Cholesterol
Three flagged numbers on my lipid panel — and the four numbers on the same panel that prove I’m in excellent metabolic health. This is my actual lipid panel, drawn at age 54. Total cholesterol: 240 mg/dL. Flagged. Above the 200 cutoff. LDL cholesterol: 149 mg/dL. Flagged. Above the 100 target. Non-HDL cholesterol: 167 mg/dL.Continue reading “The Truth about Cholesterol”
What to do…
If you’ve read Parts 1 and 2 of this series, you know two things: This post is about what to do about it. And I’m going to give you something almost no other nutrition content will: a framework that treats your current metabolic state as the deciding factor, not a one-size-fits-all rule. Because here isContinue reading “What to do…”
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 That story is outdated, and the data is loud about it.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 ?!?!”
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