The salad is not only healthier if it is more colorful; the color variety attracts you to eat more of it
How To Prevent Overeating Healthy Foods (i.e. Ferriss’s ‘Domino Foods’)
When it comes to eating healthy food, can you eat too much of a good thing? If so, how can you limit this ‘Domino Effect?’
Using Obstacles To Your Advantage
S “Even the most hardworking among us are, on some level, pretty lazy. At the very least, we are constantly assessing situations for the path of least resistance—or, to put it another way, the path with the fewest obstacles.” Dr. Traci Mann, Secrets from The Eating Lab [Download the free e-book here with all seven Tweaks] The Situation … Read More
Healthy Tweak#2: Hide the Bad
“If it’s not there, you can’t eat it; and if it is there, you will.” Dr. Traci Mann, Secrets from The Eating Lab Reading Time: ~6.5 minutes (or less time than it takes to complete an entire, scientifically tested total body work out!) Summary For all of the head-shaking grief we give to the nutrition industry to make a decision … Read More
How To Improve Your Diet Without Having To Change Yourself
Rather than directing change at yourself, many researchers urge, make tiny, targeted changes to your surroundings— office, kitchen, bedroom. In this way, you can immediately and significantly influence your actions.
3 Vegan Breakfasts With 20 g of Protein at Least
Reading time: 4 minutes This past summer, I ran an experiment on myself. The experiment was simple — can you add five pounds of muscle on a 100% vegan diet with no protein supplements? Well, It turns out you can. Since ‘Project Veggie Muscles,’ I’ve received a lot of questions about what I ate for breakfast. After all, I … Read More
Research Says: Don’t Exercise For Your Belly. Here’s a better reason. (Exercise Paradox Pt. II)
Reading Time: ~8.5 minutes, or about 15% of the time the average person spends on Instagram daily. Summary For most of my life, I exercised for what I’d call the more superficial reasons: looking and feeling good. It isn’t that exercise cannot lead to these results— it often does. But research shows that abs and biceps may be better … Read More
How To Add 5 Pounds of Muscle on Plants and Push-Ups (Project Veg Pt. 2, Results)
Reading time: About 9 minutes — or less than half the time it takes the entire grit-eating world to make grits. Summary: In the first installment of Project Veggie Muscles, I described the problem, the goal, the structure and the ground rules. My goal was to prove that 100% plant diets are not mutually exclusive from muscle-gain. Further, … Read More
The Exercise Paradox, Part 1
Reading time ~ 9 minutes Paradox Summary: We have a clear, clinically-proven way to not only reduce widespread disease, depression, anxiety, but also to proactively improve the daily and long-term function of our brains, hearts and blood. This treatment is often free, can be very enjoyable, and most of its side effects are positive. In fact, in an industry plagued … Read More
Habits of The Chronically Healthy
Reading Time: Intro / Explanation of idea: 9 minutes; Each of the three habits – 2-3 minutes [NOTE TO READERS: If you like this article or find it helpful in some way, please let me know (like, comment, email, share). I am considering putting together a little e-book of 25-30 of these habits and I would like to know if … Read More
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