Historic New Scientist article about tackling the semantics of “health”. The objections are to the ways in which the rhetoric of health is being used to promote value judgements, hierarchies, and blind assumptions that speak as much about power and privilege as they do about well-being. This has become frustratingly clear in the US political [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Cheat Day Strategies
Posted: 24th November 2011 by mcbaine in UncategorizedTags: cheat, fat synthesis, leangains, overfeeding, thanksgiving
Just in time for thanksgiving, Martin Berkhan over at LeanGains is handing out the good advice on how to cheat intelligently. In mixed-diet overfeeding, macrocomposition matters. In comparing two diets at the same calorie intake – say 5000 calories – the one with the highest percentage of calories from protein yields the least fat gain. [...]
Calorie Calculator
Posted: 20th November 2011 by mcbaine in UncategorizedTags: calculator, calorie calculator, mifflin-st jeor
Here’s a useful calorie calculator based on the Mifflin-St Jeor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mifflin-St_Jeor_equation) equation. The Mifflin-St Jeor is a fairly accurate calculator. Claims have been made that it is more accurate than the Harris Benedict Equation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris-Benedict_equation). http://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html
