The Fasting Debate: Unraveling the Link between Muscle Building and Strength Gains
Introduction: Fasting has become a hot topic in the fitness world, with some claiming its benefits outweigh those of traditional...
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Helder Barroso
- Mar 6
- 2 min
The Importance of Dietary Fiber for Health: A Comprehensive Overview
Dietary fiber, a type of non-digestible carbohydrate found in plant-based foods, plays a crucial role in our health. In recent decades,...
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Helder Barroso
- Feb 27
- 5 min
The Low Down On Fermented Foods
What are fermented foods? Fermented foods are obtained through the action of microorganisms, namely bacteria, yeasts, and mycelial fungi,...
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Helder Barroso
- Feb 15, 2022
- 3 min
Milk & Milk Products
Whilst out hunter gatherer ancestors did not use milk products, there are many healthy nomadic and agricultural societies, dating back as...
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Helder Barroso
- Feb 9, 2022
- 3 min
Understanding Carbohydrates: The Fuel for a Healthy Body
Introduction Carbohydrates are often misunderstood and unfairly vilified in the world of nutrition. However, they play a pivotal role in...
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Helder Barroso
- Dec 14, 2021
- 2 min
Finding Your Maintenance Calories
To determine the appropriate amount of calories to consume for your planned muscle building or fat loss phases, you must first establish...
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Helder Barroso
- Dec 10, 2021
- 2 min
Best Approaches To Tracking Food
One of the biggest reasons I advocate you should weigh foods, as opposed to measuring their volume (when possible), is because...
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Helder Barroso
- Dec 8, 2021
- 2 min
Why I Hate Rigid Meal Plans
The main reason I don’t write meal plans for my clients, other than providing them as an example so my clients can initially see how to...
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Helder Barroso
- Dec 8, 2021
- 2 min
Tracking Calories
Accuracy, Flexibility, and Consistency Implementing quantitative changes to your diet is all about balancing these three qualities. If...
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Helder Barroso
- Dec 9, 2020
- 3 min
Hydration
LET'S TALK ABOUT WATER INTAKE Water is essential for cellular homeostasis and life and without it we can only survive a matter of days....
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Helder Barroso
- Nov 19, 2020
- 2 min
Calories In VS Calories Out
Total body weight is ultimately determined by:
calories in vs calories out
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Helder Barroso
- Jul 21, 2020
- 1 min
Blueberries
Blueberries are a popular food and frequently supplemented. The antioxidant and anthocyanin content of blueberries makes them...
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Helder Barroso
- May 19, 2020
- 3 min
The Popcorn Experiment
Have you ever finished a bag of chips even though they were cold and soggy? Have you ever ate stale crisps just because the bag was there...
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Helder Barroso
- Jan 28, 2020
- 2 min
I can't stop eating junk food
Helder If only I had more willpower, I could stop eating so much junk food. Can you help? For me this is not the fact that you have less...
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Helder Barroso
- Jan 11, 2020
- 5 min
Cinnamon
Cinnamon is popular spice worldwide. It exerts numerous biological effects on the body. Cinnamon is frequently treated as an...
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Helder Barroso
- Dec 12, 2019
- 7 min
All About Glycemic Index
What is the Glycemic Index? The glycemic index (or GI) is a ranking of carbohydrates on a scale from 0 to 100 according to the extent to...
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Helder Barroso
- Sep 26, 2019
- 3 min
Can you gain weight from eating too little?
Thermodynamics don’t lie! Thermodynamics is a way to express how energy is used and changed. Put simply, we take in energy in the form of...
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Helder Barroso
- Sep 1, 2019
- 3 min
How much protein do you need?
As with most things in nutrition, there’s no simple answer. Your optimal daily protein intake depends on various factors, notably your...
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Helder Barroso
- Aug 22, 2019
- 3 min
Plant Based Diet
I am kind of fed up with the amount of crap I see on social media, so many claim things that just aren't real, for the sake of selling...
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