Miscellaneous topics on health and fitness related subjects.
By Jill Coleman, MS Ask any trainer or nutrition professional and 90% of them will sight “poor self-control” or “no willpower” as the reason people fail diet after diet. And they wouldn’t be completely wrong, except it’s not exactly what they think, because poor self-control when it comes to nutrition and exercise is not something you just have or you don’t. It isn’t a genetic preset. It’s a skill that’s …Read More
Jade Teta ND, CSCS I have often said that nutrition facts are sometimes just like politics and religion. It has become the third topic you don’t want to discuss at your next family get together or social gathering. Today being the day after the election, and the fact that everyone is talking about how the two sides are going to get along and get things done, I could not help …Read More
The two most frequent topics we get asked about here at Metabolic Effect are belly fat and lower body fat (specifically What Causes Cellulite). I have already written pretty extensively on the physiology of belly fat (You can read those blogs HERE, and HERE and also HERE). In this blog I want to attack the issue of lower body fat and address the “what causes cellulite and getting rid of …Read More
By Jill Coleman Picture the following 2 scenarios: Scenario #1: Someone gives you a cake recipe. You go into your kitchen, follow the directions to a tee and the cake comes out beautifully. Scenarios #2: Someone gives you a cake recipe. However, this time you are in someone else’s kitchen trying to make it. There’s no butter. There’s no all-purpose flour or milk. But there’s other stuff, like almond milk, …Read More
Jade Teta ND, CSCS We recently posted the following statement on our Facebook page: “The overweight and obese have metabolisms that don’t behave the same as thin people” And of course this set off a firestorm of comments from “metabolism experts” who were very upset at the idea that overweight people have any differences in metabolism from normal weight people. Many of them simply said overweight people are lazy gluttons. …Read More
Dr. Jillian Sarno Teta Obesity has stolen national headlines as one of the most pressing health issues of our generation. It is clear that obesity is a multifactorial, complex process that spans genetics, culture, socioeconomic status, environment, beliefs, stress and more. Many facets are well understood about obesity, particularly the consequences, which we know to be increased risk and incidence of heart disease and other chronic diseases, infertility, shortened life …Read More