Are Seed Oils Good or Bad For You?

Do seed oils and vegetable oils actually cause inflammation or heart disease? Or is that a myth? Are there any research studies on this topic? Yes, thankfully we have tons of studies on this now. The seed oil debate ends now!

Seed Oils Are Cardioprotective (Good...

Top Online Weight Loss Courses

If you do a quick Google search, you will find that there aren't actually any good online weight loss courses.

First, you will see a bunch of ads for weight loss apps and programs for weight loss. But these are not courses nor classes. These are food tracking apps ma...

You can completely transform your business and never have to think about cash flow or income ever again with a proper digital media strategy.

Online digital marketing is far more complicated than it used to be a few years ago.

I have given this lecture multiple times back in 2011, 2013, and 2014. ...

The 3 Biggest Nutrition and Exercise Mistakes Based on Science

There are generally three major mistakes that people make when it comes to nutrition, fitness, and weight loss.

⚠️1 Overly Restrictive Diets
One of the biggest mistakes is choosing a diet or weight loss plan that's overly restrictive an...

Science Says It's Ok To Eat Carbs!

Twenty years ago, we really didn't know. Research did show that avoiding carbs did cause weight loss, and that your health improved with that weight loss.

What we didn't know at the time was that overall health markers improved from the weight loss alone. Not becau...

The most important thing for weight loss is to eat foods that you enjoy and can continue to enjoy long term. If you restrict yourself or start to eat things you are not used to eating, then you will have a tough time adhering to that style of eating long term.

Studies have shown that the single most...

When I am lecturing on weight loss, I always survey the audience, "What's more important, diet or exercise?"

About 30% raise their hand for diet, about 40% for exercise, and the rest try to say both or don't raise their hands at all.

Weight loss is all diet! That's right. You can not outrun a bad di...

The Linear vs Constrained Model Of Exercise

One thing we've learned is that exercise is not linear. Exercise is not endless in the amount of calories that it can burn. Studies have shown that you cannot simply just do more exercise to burn more calories and therefore increase your total of daily ene...

I was at a pool party last year. Since I’m also a cardiologist, a friend of mine asked me about an episode where he passed out. He passed out driving home from the gym one day and totaled his car and hit three other cars. No one was hurt. But he was shocked and wanted answers. He was young and healt...

Like every parent, one day I was asked to be the coach because no one else had volunteered to be the coach. It was intimidating at first, because I had never coached before. But I was great with kids, served as a weekend school teacher and camp counselor for many years, so I knew how to interact wit...