Healthy Eating – properly fuel yourself for a long and vibrant life

Healthy eating to fuel a healthy life.

For living a healthy lifestyle, nothing trumps healthy eating. As my trainer friends and I like to say, you can’t exercise away a bad diet. You are what you eat,right? Do you think a rocket could escape gravity if it was filled with garbage fuel? It couldn’t. And your body will perform poorly with poor fuel, too. Garbage in = garbage out.

While there are many very valid and interesting nutrition ideas, a few common sense tips can really make a huge difference.

Healthy food choices affect you and the planet.

While there isn’t a universal consensus on the whether or not there is greater nutritional benefit when eating organic food versus conventional food, it is clearly accepted that ingesting pesticides and herbicides is bad for you, cancerous, in fact. Excess use of herbicides and pesticides is also bad for wildlife. The recent and severe bee colony collapse crisis has been linked to pesticides and fungicides and without pollinators, our food production collapses.

Add to that, the runoff of those pesticides and herbicides winds up in our water tables, which means they affect your drinking water. So choose wisely.

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Is bulletproof coffee worth all the hype?

Why bulletproof coffee is not miraculous for weight loss.

May 21, 2018October 15, 2017 by Mike Luque

The ketogenic diet, coconut oil & bulletproof coffee: what they have in common, and why they’re not miraculous for weight loss

The ketogenic diet and bulletproof coffee are all the rage, the hot topic of discussion on social media and in gyms. Is there any validity to the big bulletproof fad? In this guest post, registered dietitian Lindsay Orbeta, MS, RD, CSSD, gives us some real scientific information on bulletproof coffee, coconut oil and a real ketogenic diet.

Canola oil comes from a canola plant, not rapeseed.

Quick Tip: Stop demonizing canola oil. It is not poison.

January 13, 2017July 16, 2016 by Mike Luque

Another nonsense food myth: canola oil is dangerous

If you care about your health and work to avoid the SAD (standard American diet… which is pretty sad), you may have chosen to avoid canola oil after reading “health” news blogs. Most of these very popular blogs are the Chicken Little of the clickbait world.

Protein Smoothie Recipes - from Mike Luque Training

Protein smoothie recipes to help balance your nutrition.

April 6, 2018August 8, 2015 by Mike Luque

Do you find it challenging to get all the protein you need?

I found out that it’s challenging for me.

I’ve been careful to make sure I get protein with every meal and healthy snack I eat. Well… OK, I cheat sometimes. But I’ve recently been getting much more detailed about the nutrition needs of my clients,

Will Harris of White Oak Pastures does not believe monoculture is good for farming or the earth.

This rancher is the best! “Nature abhors monoculture.”

January 13, 2017March 7, 2015 by Mike Luque

This fantastic video shows ranching as it should be.

In this great PBS series “Food Forward” a fundamental question is asked:

How did something so fundamental as food, go so fundamentally wrong?

Meet Will Harris, farmer and rancher at White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, GA. A true family farmer, his farm & ranch have been in his family for three generations

Don't buy non-fat yogurt. You need a healthy source of fat.

Put down the zero fat yogurt and step away! You NEED dietary fat.

January 13, 2017February 21, 2014 by Mike Luque

Even in the midst of an obesity epidemic, we still need to eat fats.

320px-Triolein_3D_spacefill — Triolein, a tricglyceride of oleic acid, a healthy omega-9 fatty acid

Recently I was enjoying one of my stand by recipes, slow cooked beans and vegetables. However, I wasn’t following my own recipe and my “healthy” diet was about to be sabotaged… by fat!

But not because I was eating too much.

NatureBox – A great healthy snack choice – Product review

March 6, 2017November 27, 2013 by Mike Luque

Are you looking for a great choice for your family’s healthy snacks?

NatureBox, a snack delivery service, might be just what you need.

I originally heard about NatureBox through one of their ads on Facebook. Since I make sure I have healthy snack food with me at work everyday, I was interested in anything that was reasonably priced, gave me a variety of snacks and was healthy.

Counting Calories? Don’t waist your time.

March 31, 2018November 13, 2013 by Mike Luque

Why are you counting calories? Your body doesn’t “need” them.

So you want to change your body composition. This is the ratio of lean body mass to body fat. It’s the healthiest way to think about your “weight”. Weight as a raw number doesn’t really tell you alot.

You’ve frequently heard that to change your body composition,

My recommendation for chia products, the Chia Co.

The Chia Co. chia seeds – Product Review

January 13, 2017September 26, 2013 by Mike Luque

Chia seeds are my choice for getting Omega-3s.

No doubt you’ve read about the importance of getting omega-3s in your diet. They are an essential nutrient but our bodies can’t produce them internally. (Like the 9 essential amino acids) Natural sources of omega-3s are: fish (especially sardines and salmon), flax seed, walnuts, kale, seaweed and chia seed.

The great sea salt myth. Sorry, y’all, there’s no minerals in there.

September 27, 2017August 19, 2013 by Mike Luque

The trace minerals in sea salts are just that… traces.

If you go to google and look up “sea salt minerals”, you’ll find link after link of pages espousing the benefits of sea salt, how the mineral content of sea salt is greater than refined table salt and better healthy food choice. But is there any truth to it?

Tofu is bad for you, right? Try real science, not “trainer science”.

January 13, 2017August 5, 2013 by Mike Luque

Tofu is not the evil some trainers would lead you to believe.

As you can see from several of my healthy recipes, I enjoy tofu.

As a Buddhist, I work towards reducing the suffering of beings by eating less of them. However, as a trainer, I want to make sure I’m eating enough protein at every meal.