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.

March 13, 2019July 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.

March 13, 2019August 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.”

March 13, 2019March 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.

April 28, 2019February 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

May 6, 2019November 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.

May 6, 2019November 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

May 8, 2019September 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.

May 8, 2019August 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”.

May 21, 2019August 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.

Amy M.

2015-11-30 14:52:54

Mike's enthusiasm and energy are contagious. His passion for Gyrotonic and working with the human body is amazing, and he is constantly pushing to learn... read moreread more

julie e.

2010-10-26 23:08:52

Mike Luque is a very knowledgeable personal trainer and expert gyrotonics teacher. I have worked with many personal trainers over the years and can tell... read moreread more

Michelle D.

2009-07-15 11:03:14

I am a very picky person. I have experienced 4 gyro trainers and I can say his skill is way beyond the other trainers. He has Gyro experience over 10... read moreread more

Klaudia Raab

2019-04-17T23:15:12+0000

Mike is a perfectionist in the art of teaching, and my body and mind feel stronger,I’m pain free, and looking forward to aging gracefullyread more

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2017-03-26T18:26:26+0000

Lynea Diaz-Hagan

2016-07-30T03:03:56+0000

I started working with Mike after gaining a lot of weight and experiencing a major decline in my fitness level during three years of graduate school. Although I was experienced with Gyrotonic and *love* this form of bodywork, I was feeling pretty stuck, embarrassed, and uncomfortable with my body when I finally got back to the studio. Mike was AWESOME. Both encouraging and demanding, he was able to respectfully meet me where I was at, while challenging me and my body to get healthier, stronger, and reoriented. He also provided detailed guidance -- verbally and through skillful adjustments -- that deepened my understanding of Gyrotonic and of my body patterns and habits in general.The point is, Mike is an outstanding trainer. Having worked with numerous fitness trainers, dance instructors, and gyrotonic instructors over the years, I do not sing Mike's praises lightly. He really is all that. He also has a deep level of professional integrity. I highly, highly recommend him to anyone seeking thorough, conscientious, and expert guidance in Gyrotonic or fitness in general. Thanks, Mike, for what you do!read more

Peiling Kao

2016-07-26T05:44:02+0000

Mike is an experienced and knowledgeable trainer. He has such great eyes to caught my movement patterns and gave me corrections. He was able to focus on what my body actually needs as a professional dancer. My lower back opens up right away after the first session. He cares about the details, the breath,and the specific muscles I need to engage. I am very happy to have Mike as my first Gyrotonic instructor.read more

Maurice Fakhoury

2016-06-29T00:32:01+0000

Everything I thought I knew was... Not exactly correct. It took time & hands on training & so many little & not so little details adjusting my positions & postures & motions & I really felt like I re-learned the usual exercises with a higher degree of focus & execution & learned a new world of gyrotonic exercises. As a personal investment it was worth it even though it took months before I felt that. You'll never know until you try it!read more

Charley Aldred

2016-06-23T04:51:16+0000

Mike is an excellent trainer. He has a vast amount knowledge and uses his expertise to give a challenging and informative session. I always look forward to working with him because I know always learn something new!read more