When Did the Number on the Scale Become So Important?
My wife and I were having a conversation last night about something that I think we have gotten terribly wrong when it comes to health, weight loss and how people…
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Why Counting Calories Isn’t Enough for Lasting Weight Loss
Many of us have been conditioned to believe that reaching a healthy weight requires counting calories, controlling portions, or staying within a strict number of points. For many, that number…
The 3 Key Ingredients to Lasting Personal Change
How Patience, Persistence, and Will Can Help You Build Better Health and Change the Trajectory of Your Life After more than 4 decades of coaching people to become the healthiest…
How Much Water Should You Drink Each Day? What the Science Actually Says
Hydration seems like it should be one of the simplest aspects of nutrition, yet somehow, we’ve managed to make it incredibly confusing. Depending on where you get your information, you…
What If the Most Talked-About Weight-Loss Hormone in the World Was Already Inside You?
After finishing my third book, Diets: Think Outside the Box, I started working on what I thought might become my next book, The Appetite Switch. But after the time and…
What Everyone Gets Wrong About the World’s Best Carb
Most people associate fiber with digestion and keeping you regular, but that’s only part of the story. Fiber is actually a type of carbohydrate, but unlike sugars and starches, it…
What Is Your A1C Actually Telling You?
Most people who have had blood work done have probably heard of A1C. If you have prediabetes or type 2 diabetes, you may know your A1C better than you know…
Do You Really Know What’s in Your Supplements?
Millions of people take dietary supplements every day in hopes of improving their health. Multivitamins, vitamin D, magnesium, fish oil, vitamin C, calcium, B vitamins and countless other products fill…
When Did Cholesterol Become the Disease?
Understanding What Your Cholesterol Numbers Really Mean & What Actually Drives Cardiovascular Risk For decades, millions of Americans have been taught to look at their blood work and immediately associate…
When Did Type 2 Diabetes Become Normal?
How Our Changing Food Environment, Lifestyles, and Metabolic Health Helped Create One of America’s Largest Health Challenges Type 2 diabetes has become so common in the United States that it…