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 [...]
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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
FUN: The non-metriced activity
Posted: 16th May 2011 by mcbaine in UncategorizedTags: fun, metrics, music, stress
I’m a huge proponent of keeping metrics for all my training activities, eating, lifting, and even sleeping (although i keep track of this one mentally). Metrics helps me see where I am doing better and where I’m doing worse. It lets me know that I’m making progress and reaching PRs. One thing I have noticed [...]
Here’s a short article from StrongLifts about tracking your fitness: Why you need to track everything. Its a bit of a plug for the SL site to get you to use their logbook Web application, but the article has some value regardless.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. – Confucius
False Advertisement
Posted: 5th January 2011 by mcbaine in UncategorizedTags: gizmodo, hologram, powerbalance, scam, snake oil
Maybe you’ve seen the Powerbalance wrist bands. Maybe you haven’t. The company that sells the wrist band claims that the Powerbalance wrist bands can increase your atlethic performance (e.g., strength, balance, flexibility) because of a special hologram embedded in the wrist band. It allegedly resonates to your natural harmonic. Sounds like snake oil? It should, [...]
The best way out is always through. – Robert Frost
Fish Oil
Posted: 3rd January 2011 by mcbaine in UncategorizedTags: bile, efa, emulsification, essential fatty acids, fish oil, long chain poly-unsaturated fatty acid, lumen
Simple Simple question: Should I take fish oil (e.g., tablets, capsules) on an empty stomach? Simple answer: No, you shouldn’t. Not so simple Not so simple question: Does taking fish oil on an empty stomach affect the absorption of the essential fatty acid (e.g., reduce the efficacy of the lipid absorption) present in fish oil? [...]
