The Dangers of Corn
(and by extension, all grain products)
Time for a guest post by Mike Geary (author of The Truth About Six Pack Abs). Mike is having a sale of his ‘Fat Burning Kitchen‘ Ebook (on sale at half price for less than 3 days from now) and to celebrate has permitted some of his subscribers to re-use this article he wrote about the problems with grains.
Why Do You Need To Know This?
Well, how many meals each day do you consume a grain product?
For many people the answer can be 3 or more. When you consume a food that frequently, you are almost certain to run into problems eventually, even with the best of foods.
It’s just not eating the way nature intended.
Perhaps this is what we should use Corn for!
If we had limited control over our environment and food sources, we’d end up eating seasonally, and that means having lots of certain foods, but only at certain times of the year. There would be massive variation in the food available to us as the year goes around.
In addition to that we wouldn’t have foods like grains, all year round. Grains are a man-controlled plant, and a product of our industrialisation of the food chain. You don’t see a field of wheat growing naturally in the wild!
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying we should all dispense with all the trappings of wealth, and the benefits of industrialisation, and return to chasing animals and foraging for our food (although I do enjoy foraging for wild food every so often).
But I am saying that some of the ‘benefits’ of industrialisation are not that good for us. And grains are one of those things.
So, over to Mike, just make sure you read all the way to the bottom, as he makes some seriously sensible suggestions about changing your diet for the better. Not just better for your health, but also for your waistline.
As always, your comments, thoughts and experiences are very welcome, pop them in the comments section below!
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I’ve been re-reading through ‘Low Back Disorders’ by Stuart McGill (Amazon UK version
In addition to the information presented in McGills superb book the training program and progressions are also based on my own experience of working with clients for over 15 years.
Core & Abdominal Anatomy
Your midsection is pretty complicated, and I’m not going to present an exhaustive set of data here, if you want to go into massive detail you should either check out the McGill book or the links I have copied at the end of this section
Abdominal Anatomy Picture:
You can see from this image that the front of your core muscles are grouped together in a way that allows them to work together to produce movement, but the real job of your core muscles is to provide stability. This has massive implications for training, as your goal with training is to increase their ability to produce stabilising strength, not movement strength. When we get to the exercises, you’ll see what to do to increase stability strength, not movement strength, for now, just notice that nearly all forms of situps and curls produce movement, and don’t test your stability…
It’s worth pointing out that the abdominal wall muscles are not the only muscles involved in stabilising your core. We also have to be aware of your deep spinal muscles, and some of the hip muscles.
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Really? REALLY? How does this do ANYTHING for your motivation?
This is a response to an article on motivation at the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/06/biggest-loser-dolvett-quince_n_1258966.html
This is seriously low quality writing and misses the point entirely. Let me explain what I mean:
What is motivation?
It’s the desire to do something.
So how does talking about an exercise and food choices during the winter months promote an extra desire to do something? In this context it doesn’t, as the background of the post is about not wanting to exercise or eat foods that help you get or keep the body you want. When you start a post about how everyone seems to struggle in the winter months to carry on exercising without first addressing the primary reason for that struggle, you have no chance of making any sort of long term progress.
What is the primary reason for that struggle?
The fact that exercise and good eating are perceived as being hard, difficult and un-enjoyable.
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Crash and Burn Motivation: The Solution
This is a comment I posted on the John Hopkins University Website:
http://www.jhunewsletter.com/news-features/working-out-is-for-you-not-spring-break-1.2774219#.TzTpF1xOi9U
The full article can be found by clicking the link above, but it starts like this:
Here’s what I wrote in response:
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