By Guy Lawrence
Is it time to take control of your health?
In this episode of The Health Sessions I hangout with Donna & Tora the weight control experts. Their motto is (love this!) health is a lifestyle, not a life sentence. With a great message to health, weight loss and weight control it is a pleasure to have them on the show.
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By Guy Lawrence
“…an 8 oz /230g serving of hamburger daily, is technically permitted under the pyramid.” - Harvard nutritionist Dr. Walter Willett
Have you ever had one of those moments… Someone asks you a question which seems to be really simple, yet you know if you answer it, it opens up for a 100 more questions?
After explaining to my friend about my feelings on why counting calories doesn’t work (you can read my thoughts on calorie counting here), I think he was having a little bit of a paradigm shift regarding his health, nutrition and weight loss. I had just created a monster and I knew more questions would come flying at me!
The penny had dropped and all was not as it seemed in the world of weight loss and marketing. He began to understand that nutrient dense food was of the upmost importance when it came to weight loss, not counting calories. He also began to realise that most of his daily diet consisted of food that was not nutrient dense. It was loaded with refined grains, white flour and starch like breads, pastas, rice etc.
So here came the next question… What about the food pyramid? He was actually eating in no greater quantity than what is recommended by the somewhat vague prescription advocated by the food pyramid. Yet he wasn’t losing weight.
This was my answer to why I thought the food pyramid sucked. Here’s why… Continue reading
By Guy Lawrence
“Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm”. – Donella Meadows
Are you conscious about your health?
This post is not for the coke swilling, choccie bar munching monster with no real concern about their health. It’s for the person who is genuinely trying to make better daily choices to improve themselves. If there’s one thing that really frustrates me, it is seeing people who are investing time into their health and getting completely confused on what the right choices are.
THIS IS SIMPLY MY OPINION. Admittedly I am somewhat passionate about the topic, having worked as a Personal Trainer for 6 years and now running a company that deals directly with this topic, but still it is simply my opinion. I say this because I encourage anyone and everyone to check out the facts for themselves. As far as I’m concerned, there is vail that covers the whole food industry and it’s up to the individual to lift it up and take a look behind. Continue reading
Early folk basically lived according to a strict hunter-gatherer regimen known as the caveman diet. It took maybe another 190,000 years for people to discover agriculture, a revolution that has since never turned us back. Middle Paleolithic nostalgia—there’s no such thing.
Still, perhaps there is a lesson to be found in the lives of prehistoric people and their caveman diet lifestyle. The state of archaic Homo sapien health care may remain open to speculation, but their overall diet and fitness routines proved to have been profound. Sure, the hunting-and-gathering lifestyle was their sole option, but consequently, no history museum ever depicts an obese caveman.
According to health experts and siblings Tom Griesel and Dian Griesel, Ph.D, even if by pure happenstance, our most former predecessors had the diet right. A quarter-century of research led the Griesels to such a conclusion, and eventually to the co-authored fitness book “TurboCharged,” a guide that espouses the nutritional methods of our ancestors.
“Early man lived on low calories and high nutrition,” said Dr. Griesel, a resident of Washington, whose health tome hit the marketplace last month. “We could imitate that, separate the nutrients, eat like early man. If you do that, you’ll evolve and you’ll eliminate your hunger.”
Hunger is a needless byproduct of the eat-less, exercise-more approach. Stomach rumbling can be pronounced when one reduces fuel and increases performance. That’s when diets fail.
But the “TurboCharged” philosophy works in its unique call for people to shed fat, not pounds. Shed calories, not nutrition. After parsing years and years of research, the Griesels determined that the Homo sapien approach is not only the most organic, but the most effective towards keeping dieters energized and on track.
Simply put, if we were to cut out modern day processed foods and follow more of a caveman diet and lived more actively, surely our health would improve?
If you want to eat like our ancestors, try our 180 Super Food.
You can read the full article here.
By Guy Lawrence
I was told that the final phase of the detox is the best time to bring in colonics. I wasn’t so sure that it would make such a great video or picture for the post, so I made a unanimous decision and voted against it!
But I am happy to say I am on the last leg of the detox, and the final stage is all about the liver. So I wanted to share with you what this phase is all about. Continue reading
By Guy Lawrence
Delving into the mis-understood world of detoxing, the one thing that has really began to stand out for me is the importance of our gut. A.k.a “the second brain”.
I heard this term a while back, but as I’m in full swing of the detox, it’s lead me to dig further. So if you like the idea of encouraging fat-loss and lifting your spirits in the process…. read on. Continue reading
