Can’t stay motivated? It might be your metabolism
Your ability to control cravings takes energy. Brain energy. But if you've been eating seed oils, they can deprive your brain of energy, hijacking your willpower.
Food Rules: A Doctor’s Guide to Healthy Eating
In this book, Dr. Cate shows how all calories are not created equal; food is information that directs our cellular growth. Our family history does not determine our destiny: what you eat and how you live can alter your DNA in ways that affect your health and the health of your future children.
Deep Nutrition
In this book, Dr. Cate shows how all calories are not created equal; food is information that directs our cellular growth. Our family history does not determine our destiny: what you eat and how you live can alter your DNA in ways that affect your health and the health of your future children.
Dr. Cate Shanahan’s book: The FatBurn Fix
It's not you that wants to overeat. It's not you that doesn't have the energy to exercise. It's your metabolism. If you've gained and been unable to lose or lost and regained, it's not lack of willpower. It's lack of FATBURN.
This Week’s Meal-Planning Web Roundup
I found three websites loaded with useful, time saving ideas for making good, lower carb, high healthy fat (and keto) foods.
Vegetable Oil and Sugar Block Fat Burn and Mitochondrial Function
In 2017, mainstream medicine has taken giant step towards science backed advice. Meanwhile, sports nutrition still espouses that sugar is the best fuel for athletes, that low carb diets deplete glycogen stores, and that polyunsaturated fats are the healthy kind of fat.
Fat Adapted Athletes Perform Better (video interview)
In this interview, we discuss the science behind real food-based, low-carb diets and sports performance. Additionally, we discuss the Four Pillars (common findings) of all healthy human diets
Making veggies look bad
If you are someone with heart disease, or are at risk for heart disease or simply want to make the right nutritional choices, this article will help you understand how statisticians have misled us into being afraid of natural saturated fats, and fats in general.
For Fast, Healthy, Lasting Weight Loss, Avoid Empty Calories
The best way to lose weight is to avoid empty calories. But even nutrient-dense foods can, for some people, be converted to body fat. Dr Cate shares solutions.
Your 2012 Weight-Loss Resolution: Become a Better Fat Burner
If you are like most Americans, you’ve made plenty of weight loss resolutions over the years and failed to follow through. It’s probably not that you lack willpower; it’s that you never trained your body to burn fat.
When Martians Attack Carbo-loading Could Spell Your Doom!
Whether you are a fitness guru, athlete, or recovering couch potato, a ketogenic diet can help you push your body farther and faster.
How Much Carbohydrate Do You Need to Eat Per Day?
We've all grown up equating sugar to energy, but new research suggests our bodies are engineered to run on fat...
Weight Loss Basics
Healthy lasting weight loss depends on cutting carbs, switching out good fats for bad, and adding back missing elements. These ten steps provide a framework for you to adapt almost any other diet you already enjoy, from Paleo to Primal to Atkins to Vegetarian.
