Aug 12, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Don’t tell people what to eat. Or how to exercise. Or what supplements to take. It just leads to embarrassment in the end. Unless you like embarrassing yourself. I admit that I have always kind of liked embarrassing myself. When friends came over in my teenage years I would almost always reach for the totally ridiculous and humiliating childhood breakdancing videos. 7-year old white kid in...
Aug 10, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Chris Randall Okay fine. Sugar, the sweet, sweet truth. I made a smoothie today: a really good one, in fact. ?Oh, a super-good one with wild organic low-sugar berries, organic grass-fed no-sweetener-added whey protein powder, and no-calorie Stevia drops?! Um, no. Gross. Do people actually eat stuff like that? I’m talking a real smoothie. I’m talking the kind of smoothie that would...
Aug 7, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Rob Archangel Another quick update everyone:?Eat for Heat: The Metabolic Approach to Food and Drink is now available in audiobook format on Audible. Narrated by Matt, this is a great way to learn about how best to interpret your biofeedback so that you can tweak your food and beverages for the greatest metabolic impact. If you’re tired of dealing with middle of the night bathroom trips,...
Aug 5, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone It’s chart time for you numbers nerds. I don’t track numbers as it pertains to my health or diet, but I am, at heart, a bit of a numbers nerd. I find numbers can and do put things into better perspective sometimes. In my most recent books, I discuss calorie density and obtaining the warming effect from food. The lower one’s metabolism, the higher the...
Aug 1, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone Don’t diet. Yes it’s bad for you and slows down your metabolism and worsens your mood and does heinous things to your body in a variety of ways. That’s not what this is about. I’m talking about it being unrealistic. If you think you can just go hungry and will away all your?cravings, keep it up forever, and not return to eating what you want when...
Jul 29, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Rob Archangel Happy Monday everyone. Just a quick little update:?12 Paleo Myths: Eat Better Than a Caveman is available now in paperback HERE. Not only does it address some of the most common, off-base paleo ideas floating around, like the idea that we haven’t adapted in any meaningful way since the birth of agriculture, or that hunter-gatherers had sexy bodies, but it also tackles some...
Jul 27, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone The other day I was straining some pasta. My strainer, a fancy chinois that I have?had for about a decade now, lives up in?a small cabinet (from now on referred to as a CARBinet… Thanks Batty!)?above the microwave. I reached up there and opened the carbinet to grab it. As I took hold of the handle I saw, lurking behind it, my tin of Great Lakes Collagen Hydrolysate. I...
Jul 24, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Kurtis Frank and Sol Orwell from Examine.com What is Vitamin K? Vitamin K is one of the four fat soluble vitamins in the body, and alongside Vitamin D, works to support bone integrity and structure while also controlling calcium in the body. It is commonly known as a synergist of vitamin D (increasing the benefits of vitamin D on bone tissue), but even by itself vitamin K appears to be highly...
Jul 20, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Derek Ingui One of the problems, at least in my humble opinion, with the health and fitness industry is that too many people are taught, or at least lead to think, in terms of absolutes. An eye grabbing magazine headline may read something like this: ?Blueberries are loaded with Cancer fighting antioxidants! This is all well and dandy, and may even be right on the money, but this statement...
Jul 18, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone In October last year I wrote about a young Dutch kid (Coldmember I called him) who was in really bad shape. He contacted me through the 180D Get Help program and I told his story (although I botched a few details I guess) in Fat Loss Secret. Then I discussed the guidance I gave him in Eating Disorder Recovery. To make a long story short, he’s doing great now. Not only was he...
Jul 15, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Lianda Ludwig Once you’ve gotten overweight and are unhappy with your body, things change, not only on the outside but the inside as well. A negative body image, being angry, berating yourself, feeling ashamed and blaming yourself and your body has repercussions. It’s stressful. The way you feel is exhibited by your body. Your posture changes reflecting your lack of self esteem....
Jul 14, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Rob Archangel And rounding out this weekend’s guest posts outside of 180 is this gem from Matt,? Pee All That You Can Pee? How Much Should You Drink? This one is brought to you by Krista Scott-Dixon over at Stumptuous. In it, Matt talks about the fundamental but seemingly dumb idea that how often we pee impacts how we feel, and that we might do better paying attention to it. And that,...
Jul 13, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Rob Archangel Howdy campers. Recently regular reader Joey Lott interviewed Matt for his website. The plan is to feature several other writers alongside Matt on the topic of helping people restore their metabolic rates and take back their health. It may be compiled together as a printed resource one of these days, but you can access the 180 goodness right away here. It’s a good interview...
Jul 10, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Hannah Ransom Imagine a scenario in which?a patient is’seeking the help of a practitioner for pain in?her wrist. Practitioner number one does a physical examination, has an assistant take x-rays, examines the x-rays, and may talk to’the patient?for a moment about what’the patient?does?with her wrist. She ends the consultation by prescribing a pill daily, a brace to be worn...
Jul 8, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone I just got off the phone with my eBFF Joni Cox. We were discussing potential plans to release “180 Radio” with live-streaming interviews, Q and A where peeps call in, and a lot of other real cool things.Joni, the broadcastin’ broad (who mentioned on the call that she is flexible and can juggle… I think she’s in the wrong industry), would be the primary...
Jul 6, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Julia Gumm Grains. Who needs ?em? Paleo man didn’t need them. The Inuit didn’t need them. Certainly, health-minded people clad in stylish yoga gear don’t need them. But does anybody need them? Today’s anti-grain sensibilities can be tough to swallow for some folks. It wasn’t long ago that the USDA Food Pyramid was advising we eat a whopping 6-11 servings of...
Jul 4, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Yes, you read that correctly. Pinch yourself. You are not dreaming. It really did finally happen after years of begging and prodding from the comments section. The 180 forums are HERE. See ya over there…
Jul 2, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Chris Sandel During the Vietnam War, the number of soldiers using opiate products on a regular basis was worryingly high. In the earlier stages of the war marijuana use was fairly common but from about 1969 onwards heroin and opium became more of an issue. It was estimated in 1971 that half of US soldiers had tried opiates and a report from the same year claimed that 15% of the troops were...
Jul 1, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone As some of you may or may not know, I worked extensively at the top of the culinary industry before one day getting “fed up,” walking out, and vowing not to return to the kitchen until I had explored other things. That day was in April of 2005. Then of course I became obsessively interested in health and nutrition and spent the last eight years deeply entrenched in that...
Jun 27, 2013 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone I thought Bob Greene,?perhaps America’s leading ambassador?for the statistically-counterproductive pursuit of intentional weight loss (dieting), had really crossed the line by having people sign contracts to crash diet. But Greene has been thoroughly topped by the actions of one Korean mother who recently demanded her daughter to sign a contract stating that she (the...
