Some of you may have noticed that I went for a really high protein, low fat, low carb approach to my last fat loss diet with great effect. The logic behind that decision was that I was already very well adapted to burning fat for fuel and therefore consumption of dietary fat just went directly [...]
It seems hardly any time since I last had a blog-watch on Vitamin D, but for some reason my RSS reader filled up with Vitamin D posts and articles during January. I think one of the main reasons for this was that, with the northern hemisphere settled into the depths of winter, the horror stories [...]
Tags:Supplements·Vitamin D
Scott Abel wrote a fascinating article at the start of this year which I felt warranted a bit of attention through a blog-watch post. Who is Scott Abel and why was he writing about hypervitaminosis? Scott Abel is a former physique and bodybuilding competitor who now coaches other bodybuilders and figure athletes to get them [...]
Tags:Diet·Figure·Supplements
Some time ago Chris asked me if I would do some research into Vitamin B, including details about what it is useful for and what foods we can get it from (and therefore whether we need to supplement), since someone had mentioned something to him about Vitamin B being good for hair. It has taken [...]
I’ve put it lots of times before on this blog but my overarching goal is to live a long and active life. Seriously long. The aim is to live longer than my great-grandmother who made it to 103 (and four months), but I don’t want to be sat in a chair or even lying in [...]
There’s a good chance that you noticed through December a lot of noise being made in the media and online about Vitamin D. The bulk of the controversy was kicked off by a paper which suggested that we didn’t need as high a dosage of Vitamin D as is believed by some practitioners. Now that [...]
Tags:Supplements·Vitamin D
The Dairy Series – Part 5 This article is the fifth part in a series looking at various aspects of dairy. During the series I am covering range of issues including intolerances, different types of dairy produce (specifically pasteurised, raw, full fat and skimmed), whether we need dairy for calcium and, ultimately, where I feel [...]
Tags:acid-base·Acid-base balance·Bone density·Dairy·Diet·Supplements·Vitamin D
I was going to write something completely different for today, but then I was checking through my Google Reader this morning (Saturday), just before I leave for my holiday, and realised that this is something I need to write about as soon as possible. Methuselah of Pay Now Live Later has a tendency to write [...]
Tags:Paleo diet·Supplements
Another blog-watch in the Vitamin D collection. It seems that this is going to be a regular blog-watch theme, but there is so much new information always appearing about this particular vitamin and it appears to be so crucial to performance, that discussions about Vitamin D become central to a blog like this. I have [...]
I used to joke that I had a memory like a colander. The holes were so big and my ability to retain any information (other than things I needed to remember for exams, helpfully) was so bad that I couldn’t even say my memory was like a sieve. It started to become an embarrassment. If [...]
