10 Ways to get a Workout in the Winter

10 Ways to get a Workout in the Winter

Working out in the winter is hard;  yes, even in California.  It's dark, it's cold, and you're wearing a lot of layers.  All sound like great excuses to laze around on your couch drinking eggnog, but it's especially important to keep up your workouts as the days shorten.  Exercise will keep off those winter blues [...]

Coconut Oil: The Good, The Bad, and Everything In-between

Coconut Oil:  The Good, The Bad, and Everything In-between

Please note: This post was written three years ago, and there may be more current research on coconut oil. There is a great divide between holistic medicine and western medicine, and the same can be said for the study of nutrition.  Disagreements are often made on food groups, and one such example under debate is [...]

Not all Kilocalories are Created Equal

Not all Kilocalories are Created Equal

Nutritional information is a misleading term.  In practice, posting nutritional information is posting the amount of calories in particular food.  Nutrition, however, is not solely based on the amount of calories in a certain food.  There are two essential modern approaches to nutrition: the caloric approach and the micronutrient approach.  Increasingly, the micronutrient approach, which [...]