by Ben | Mar 29, 2021 | Articles
All Food Rules Are Bad!? Don’t Succumb to the Food Police BECAUSE If You Do You Are An Uneducated Terrible Awful Insensitive Human! As a nutritional professional, I question my rationality right now trying to hold a line of maybe just maybe it isn’t a bad idea to have...
by Ben | Mar 29, 2021 | Articles
SLEEP is so Hottt right now…but how much does it really matter? According to national level samples anywhere from 30-45% of adults are not getting enough sleep and upwards of 70% of US adolescents aren’t getting the sleep they need. Reduced sleep can lead to impaired...
by Ben | Mar 29, 2021 | Articles
Take a second and imagine a football field as the evolution of our species. You see the whole beautiful pristine 100 yards? Now zoom in on that final yard. Cheetos were invented in 1948, meaning that humans have had Cheetos for the last tenth of an inch of that...
by Ben | Jul 14, 2020 | Articles
I remember sitting in a hipster cafe. It was 12 years ago. CrossFit still felt like Fight Club. A man high up in the underground world said to me casually, “I just eat bacon and crush whatever.” I knew this probably wasn’t the best...
by Ben | Jun 29, 2020 | Articles
The human body can get rid of blood sugar without insulin, but NOT gobs of it, and the difference between diabetes and healthy is a mere two paper clips of dissolved sugar in 1.3 gallons of blood. Therefore, if we want to be able to pass the adult marshmallow test...
by Ben | Jun 23, 2020 | Articles
Being healthy from a body composition standpoint likely means staying between 8 to 17% body fat for men and 16 to 30% for women (1). There will be exceptions to these rules, but right now these are the best lines in the sand that we have. These numbers are likely a...
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