21
Aug
2008
Posted by Mike as Nutrition
Photo by Benny Yap
It’s been a big debate for a long time. Are eggs bad for your heart? Will eggs Raise LDL cholesterol? With recent studies it’s been shown that eggs are cholesterol healthy. These high cholesterol foods actually work towards lowering the ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol, and raising the ‘good’ HDL cholesterol - if they [...]
16
Jul
2008
Posted by Mike as Nutrition
Photo by Poolie
That wonderful fizzy sweet drink that everyone loves - soda. You see it all over the place in many forms: Coca Cola, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, 7 UP, Sprite, and many others. A lot of people drink pop on a daily basis - the unfortunate part is that it will slow down the chance [...]
03
Jul
2008
Posted by Mike as Nutrition
Vegetables are a big part of my diet for getting lean. Some people can have zero vegetables and still lose weight, but that isn’t the case for me. I need to have vegetables with at least 1-3 meals per day. More importantly the only vegetable I tend to eat recently is broccoli. Broccoli has been [...]
30
Jun
2008
Posted by Mike as Nutrition
One of the biggest topics today is ‘how to lower cholesterol‘. Sometimes it can get hard to stay on a diet that will help lower cholesterol. I think the major reason is that most people just don’t know what types of food to eat. I tried to compile a list of all the foods that [...]
19
Jun
2008
Posted by Mike as Nutrition, Supplements
When I started a healthy lifestyle I never knew the difference between saturated, polyunsaturated, and monounsaturated were. I just knew fats were a bad thing. So I stood away from them. When I looked at the label I would just look at the part that said how much fat there was in the food I was [...]