So many people feel the key to health is the opposite-–80% exercise + 20 % nutrition and stress management. I used to be one of them. So is diet more important than exercise? This is how I found the answer. Around 1995, I was twenty-eight years old and somewhat overweight. I began an excruciating exercise program […]
Health & Fitness
Protein–How Much is Too Much?
RDA for Protein is 0.8 grams protein per kilogram/body weight– (8 of-10% of total diet calories) The Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for protein was established in the early 1940’s and has been officially sanctioned ever since. RDA is NOT a minimum requirement (minimum requirement is 5-6% total diet calories). It is the average requirement that […]
My Family’s Diet and Longevity Experiences
I live in a very rural, farming area of NC and, after adopting a whole food, plant-based way of life a number of years ago, people kept saying, “But, my grandfather grew up on a farm eating meat and drinking milk his whole life, and he lived to be 87 years old. So, how can […]
Protein? These Plant-Based Professional Athletes Get Enough
When people first switch to a plant-based lifestyle, many well-meaning family members and friends suddenly become nutrition experts and express their concern that plants may not provide enough protein. Interestingly, if asked how much protein is enough, they don’t know but are convinced that more is always better. They are unaware that the majority of […]
Top Keys to Strong Bones
Fracture rates are highest in countries that consume the most dairy and calcium. Countries that consume little or no milk, dairy or calcium supplements have 50% to 70% lower fracture rates. The World Health Organization coined the term the calcium paradox because the places where they’re told to ‘drink milk for strong bones’ are the […]
