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Inactivity ‘kills more than obesity’

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30812439

No surprises here maybe. The Primal Blueprint prescription for general fitness, good health and optimal gene expression is:

– 2-5 hours low level intensity activity per week. In the aerobic zone 55-75% maximum heart rate.

– 2 strength training sessions per week of less than 30 minutes each. Intense enough that you cannot continue longer than 30 minutes maximum.

– An all out sprint session every 7-10 days when motivation and energy levels are high.

If you want to read the full report you can find it here

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2015/01/14/ajcn.114.100065.full.pdf+html

(thanks to Prof. Ulf Ekelund for the link)

 

The 8,000 calorie breakfast… wrong , wrong, wrong.

Whilst usually dismissive of calorie counting being in any way useful or helpful in efforts to lose weight, even I have my limits. This is wrong on so many levels.

“A cafe has unveiled its 8,000 calorie breakfast featuring 59 items of food.

Corner Cafe’s ‘Monster Mega Breakfast’ contains six rashers of bacon, six sausages, six eggs, two thee-egg omelettes, four portions of fried potatoes and four portions of mushrooms.

In addition, diners get to feast on six slices of black pudding, six hash browns, one bowl of chips, four onion rings, four slices of toast, two fried bread, half a grilled tomato, two portions of beans and two portions of tomatoes.

Those brave enough to consume the breakfast are challenged to a hour to down the meal. They can wash it down with either a pint of milkshake or an energy drink.

Nobody has yet managed to eat the whole meal at the cafe in Portishead, near Bristol.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11342110/Watch-Cafe-creates-whopping-8000-calorie-breakfast.html

As I am intermittently fasting for January, my current breakfast calorie count is 0 calories.

 

Time to get this running again :)

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New Year’s resolutions sometimes fail but hopefully not this year. I will reactivate my blog, successfully complete my Primal Blueprint certification and spend January on a Whole 30 autoimmune exclusion. Check out the Melissa Hartwig link for details.