Healthy and Inspired Living
Weight Watchers and other calorie-counting mavens will tell you that a “calorie is a calorie” and you need to reduce your total caloric intake below what you burn each day in order to lose weight. Within this general guideline, you’ll often hear the mantra “all foods fit,” which tells us that we should follow the [...]
Dr. Claudia Pillow debunks the myth that breakfast and protein bars are “healthy” food, even if they are organic and gluten-free. Do you know what Maltitol is? It could be in your protein bar. Maltitol is a hydrogenated sugar alcohol carbohydrate (derived either from corn or wheat) that is converted to glucose in the liver, [...]
I recently posted an article to the urbandiner.ca website on the subject of the legumes (“Beans, beans, the magical fruit?”), in part taken from a chapter of my upcoming book “Food As Medicine” The Theory and Practice of Food”. In the last part of my blog I discuss the issue of the vegan protein powders [...]
The concept of taking massive amounts of protein to gain muscle and weight has been going on for years. There are arguments for and against the total amount of protein you would need. On one end, there is the argument that large amounts of protein will help build muscle. On the other end, there is [...]
