There has been a lot of push lately for restaurants to include nutritional information, especially calories, on their menus. Some restaurants have been more willing than others to give this information out. And, while it’s great to have that information, most people still don’t really understand what that information is telling them. With the holidays […]

Every day you can find a new article on how some celebrity lost a ton of weight using some crazy new diet trick. Then of course a couple months later you’ll see an article on that same celebrity and how they’ve gained all that weight back. But sometimes, the diet tricks that celebrities use aren’t […]

I received the following question today from one of my readers (who also happens to be a good friend)… “I don’t eat packaged foods, how can I figure my serving sizes [and] what are the measurements of each food group?” This is a great question, and also a complicated one. While packaged foods offer convenience, […]

The other day I was sitting and pondering. I usually skip buying pastured meats (unless they’re on sale) because of their price even though I know how good they are for me, and that got me to wondering… Exactly how much money AM I saving by buying conventional meats? Each pound of pastured ground beef […]

I’m right in the middle of reading The Paleo Coach by Jason Seib and really love the chapter where he talks about temptation (Chapter 3: Temptation’s Secret Plays). We all know what we should and should not be eating in order to be healthy, yet we always seem to give in to temptation and cheat way […]

Eating clean can be time-consuming and expensive, but it doesn’t have to be. Here’s a couple of my grocery store cheats for eating right on the cheap. Frozen Vegetables- Eating clean means eating a lot of vegetables. But unless you want to make a trip to the grocery store every couple of days, you’ll need […]