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Few in Hollywood should be considered the ideal for anyone to want to look like. No one is supposed to be a size zero! At the other extreme, we ought not to be waddling around with 35 to 100 pounds of adipose tissue either.

“Nutrition and Physical Degeneration” written in 1939 by Weston A. Price painstakingly documents why the processed foods wealthy nations are fond of make us sick and fat.

Food companies manipulate their… Continue

THE most common reason for back pain is poor posture (and, interestingly enough, dehydration and poor nutrition). Paul Chek is very fond of saying “If you’re not assessing, you’re only guessing.” By overlooking what isn’t working correctly, pain and chronic injuries simply will not go away.

A postural assessment and movement screen are critical to find where muscular imbalances and poor recruitment patterns are. If the client has too much spinal flexion or lordosis or their cervical curves are… Continue

Eat enough nutritionally dense calories! This is one of the hardest concepts for women, in particular, to get their minds around. Our bodies require about 60 calories an hour per pound of body weight to function lying still listening to music. We need plenty of high quality protein, fat and carb (not grains) sources so the millions of our body’s cells that die every second are rebuilt from good “material”.

Hydrate with enough pure water! Gatorade, bottled sports drinks and vitamin… Continue

More exercise is not better and usually leads to overtraining. Symptoms include fatigue, increased susceptibility to illness and injuries, insomnia, general aches and pains, depression, irritability, and headaches.

Attitude, performance, hypertrophy and strength gains also slide. Overtraining raises cortisol levels, further catabolizing muscle tissue and raising body fat levels. The body may become calorie deficient, adding to muscle tissue breakdown.

Over time, decreases in fitness lev… Continue

Watching TV the other night I counted 16 out of 20 commercials selling fast food, prescriptions and over the counter medications in 3 minutes. Not one aired for nutritionally dense food. Who would lose billions annually if we didn’t need those drugs or ate that “food”?

Clean sources of saturated fat create satiety and are the “building blocks” of all our hormones, which quite literally, rule us. Without those hormones, our minds and bodies will betray us. 50% of breast milk is cholesterol and s… Continue