Episodes
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How Sleep Affects Your Eating Behavior
More at: http://preliminaryhealthcare.blogspot.com/2014/12/how-sleep-affects-your-eating-behavior.html Poor sleep has powerful implications on eating behavior, generally favoring your seeking and consuming highly pleasurable junk foods. Watch the video to understand how/why this happens, then...
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Breathing to Reduce Anxiety and Stress
More at: http://preliminaryhealthcare.blogspot.com/2014/12/breathing-to-reduce-anxietystress.html Simple breathing techniques can powerfully reduce feelings of stress and anxiety. This article gives a brief overview "proper breathing." I hope to provide a bit of insight and encourage you to try…
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Weight Lifting Reduces Belly Fat
More at: http://preliminaryhealthcare.blogspot.com/2014/12/weight-lifting-reduces-belly-fat.html A recent study demonstrates that weight lifting is more effective than cardio exercise at reducing weight. This result, however, is not unexpected because of how each mode of exercise affects the...
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Cholesterol Meds on the Rise
More at: http://preliminaryhealthcare.blogspot.com/2014/12/cholesterol-meds-on-rise.html The use of "statins," a type of cholesterol lowering medication, have been on the rise; 28% of people over the age of 40 have used these medications in the past month. Cholesterol has long been accused of...
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eReaders Hurting Your Sleep
More at: http://preliminaryhealthcare.blogspot.com/2014/12/ereaders-hurting-your-sleep.html Exposure to light (especially light of the blue spectrum) acts as a signal to your brain to keep you awake; conversely, dim light triggers the release of the sleep hormone called "melatonin."...
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Good Carbs, Bad Carbs questioned
More at: http://preliminaryhealthcare.blogspot.com/2014/12/good-carb-bad-carb-questioned.html The "Glycemic Index" was devised as a way of helping people control blood sugar levels. This would be most beneficial for people with diabetes, but has become simplified to "good carbs" and "bad carbs."...
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Supplement Lies
More at: http://preliminaryhealthcare.blogspot.com/2014/12/supplement-lies.html It should come as no surprise that a supplement manufacturer would try to cheat you. The incentives behind drugs and medication are the same...to make you believe you are an inherently feeble creature in need of their...
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Weight Loss News Extravaganza
More at: http://preliminaryhealthcare.blogspot.com/2014/12/weight-loss-news-extravaganza.html We have a whole slew of weight loss news items today. First, a bit of biochemistry to explain the actual chemical processes which use fat as fuel. Then: Should obesity be considered a disability? We…
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A New Direction
Hello Reader, I'm writing this post as it marks a change in direction for Preliminary Health Care, a change I hope is more perfectly aligned with my vision. It is of my sincerest beliefs, that Health is a birthright to all of us--a birthright that is being stripped from us by perverse financial...
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How Often Should You Eat, Part 5: Implementing “Infrequent Eating”
More at: http://preliminaryhealthcare.blogspot.com/2014/12/how-often-should-you-eat-part-5.html Because of the complex nature of this topic, I’ve broken it down into 5 parts, this being the final: the first installment was meant to raise your suspicions about traditional advice, after which were...
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How Often Should You Eat, Part 4: Aging, Longevity, & Disease
More at: http://preliminaryhealthcare.blogspot.com/ Because of the complex nature of this topic, I’ve broken it down into 5 parts: the first installment is meant to raise your suspicions about traditional advice; here we’ll focus on the effect of eating frequency on aging, longevity, and...
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How Often Should You Eat, Part 3: Muscle Mass
More at: http://preliminaryhealthcare.blogspot.com/2014/12/how-often-should-you-eat-part-3-muscle.html Because of the complex nature of this topic, I’ve broken it down into 5 parts: the first installment is meant to raise your suspicions about traditional advice; here we’ll focus on the effect of...
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How Often Should You Eat? Part 2: Fat Loss
Because of the complex nature of this topic, I’ve broken it down into 5 parts: the first installment is meant to raise your suspicions about traditional advice; here we’ll focus on fat loss, and later posts are on muscle mass and health & longevity. The final installment will discuss how to…
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How Often Should You Eat, Part 1: Raising Doubts
More at: http://preliminaryhealthcare.blogspot.com/2014/12/how-often-should-you-eat-part-1-raising.html Because of the complex nature of this topic, I’ve broken it down into 5 parts: this installment is meant to raise your suspicions about traditional advice, followed by installments focused on…
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Cholesterol: What is it good for?
Read Full Post at: http://preliminaryhealthcare.blogspot.com/2014/12/how-often-should-you-eat-part-2-fat-loss.html Because of the complex nature of this topic, I’ve broken it down into 5 parts: the first installment...
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The Key Ingredient to Muscle Growth
More at http://preliminaryhealthcare.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-key-ingredient-for-bigger-muscles.html There is certainly no shortage of ready-made training programs promising you bigger muscles; the huge number of such programs, though, seems suspicious. Sure, you can compare any 2 programs and…
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How Exercise Helps Manage Blood-Sugar and Diabetes
Why is Blood-Sugar Important? Your body is made of nearly 100 trillion cells! One thing that they all have in common is a constant demand for fuel, of which there are 4 major types: • Sugar • Fat • Ketones (made from fat when fat is being burned rapidly) • Protein (amino acids) Most cells of your...
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When You Blame Calories, You Blame Victims
More at: http://preliminaryhealthcare.blogspot.com/2014/11/when-you-blame-calories-you-blame.htm We’ve heard it to the point that we accept it without questioning: “It’s all about calories-in v calories-out. If you wanna lose weight, you have to eat less and exercise more.” The first problem with...
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Eating on a Budget
More at: preliminaryhealthcare.com This article is not about clever means of being thrifty at the supermarket. No. Instead, I want to discuss a subject that few probably think about—how our natural eating-behaviors impact our grocery bill. Home-Ec 101: When buying groceries, you should find...
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Food, "Food," and Drugs
Food, “Food,” & Drugs The following is adapted from our free Nutritional Basics eBook. We tend to think about food in simplistic terms, like “calories,” “good for you, bad for you,” or “how much (insert nutrient here) is in it.” In reality, though, food is a symphony of signals playing to your…
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