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Top 3 Tips for a SANE Approach to Nutrition Labels

If you have ever looked at a nutrition label, you have seen these percentages: Many people give these percentages a quick glance and decide whether the food is nutritious or not. Double digit percentages equal “nutritious.” Single digits are not as impressive. Here are three quick questions that help with this evaluation: 1. How many […]

Eating More Does Not Cause Long-Term Fat Gain

  “[We found] highly significant inverse correlations between food energy intake and adiposity [body fat].” – H. Keen, King’s College London Eating more low-quality food causes us to gain body fat. But that does not mean eating more food produces the same result. Interestingly enough, eating more high-quality food has been clinically proven to cause […]

Jogging causes more harm than good?

“[Exercised induced injuries]…can be as high as 55% among men and women involved in jogging programs” – The American Heart Association How’s that possible? How can jogging hurt more than half the people who do it? Every mile we run, our feet hit the ground about 900 times. Let’s say you weigh 150lbs. That means […]

exercise less for a healthier heart?

In the last post I mentioned how SANE amounts to eating more and exercising less—smarter—and hinted that we eat more—smarter—by increasing the quality of our calories. Before we get into what determines the quality of calories, let’s touch on the exercise less—smarter—bit. We exercise less–smarter–much like we eat more–smarter…focusing on quality instead of quantity. We […]