Carbohydrate loading is a concept of eating excess carbohydrates to fuel endurance activity. It has long been promoted as essential to ward off fatigue and ‘bonking,” a sports term to mean depleting ones fuel sources and flooding with lactic acid. In my day in nutritional sciences, one would get a failing grade if countering the […]
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When I first started training and coaching regular individuals (as opposed to athletes) there was a well entrenched notion for weight loss. Aerobic exercise (less intense, long and slow exercise) was believed to be the only way to burn excess fat. You know you are performing aerobic exercise when you start breathing faster but you
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Here at Healthy Habits we like to stress the importance of a diet low in carbohydrates for weight loss. Often we see clients who need to significantly reduce starchy carbohydrates, especially the processed white stuff, and increase good quality protein in their diet. There is much research to support a diet higher in protein for
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When I first started training and coaching regular individuals (as opposed to athletes) there was a well entrenched notion for weight loss. Long, slow, distance was believed to be the only way to burn excess fat.
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