Category: Nutrition

Most Nutritious Way to Cook Vegetables   In today's health conscious society, its common knowledge that eating vegetables is a vital ingredient to a healthy body. What the most nutritious way to cook vegetables though and why, is still a bit of a mystery to us common folk and something that isn't even generally considered. The reason it is recommended that vegetables from a part of our daily diet is that they are nutritionally rich, packed with essential vitamins and minerals and as we learned in the previous blog ( Why are Vegetables Healthy ), they are also loaded with phytonutrients which have been shown to be powerful antioxidants and may protect from various cancers and diseases. It stands to reason that we would want to make sure that we are taking…

Why Are Vegetables Healthy? In the world of fitness and nutrition there is a plethora of conflicting information by so-called experts battling their corner trying to convince us that there method is the right way to go. Meat is an essential complete protein. Meat is the biggest cause of cancer. Carbs should be part of a balanced diet. Carbs cause inflammation and are the reason for the obesity epidemic. And the arguments go on ad nauseam. One of the very few things that are universally accepted by all though is that vegetables are a super healthy, nutritionally packed and a must in any healthy diet. This is simply just fact and impossible to argue with. We are all aware that we should be eating vegetables daily, partly I'm sure by…

Is it Worth Taking Protein Powder?     Depends……………………………..           OK, I jest, but that is kind of the answer Let's explore though the question of is it worth taking protein powder further. Before I do that, I'm gonna humiliate myself with a couple of stories of my first foray into protein supplements when I was asking that very same question. For many years, I stopped lifting weights because stupidly I thought they would slow me down in my martial arts training and those milliseconds would mean landing that killer blow or not. Once I saw through the propaganda passed down by the lazy Kung fu masters I decided to hit the weights hard. This time round though I was also hit with the explosion of all these…