Organic vs. Not Organic

A couple of years ago I was doing my best to buy the organic options whenever available.

I liked it. I tasted a difference (although, it might have been psychological) from the non-organic products.

I was doing this for about 6 months and then I just wondered what exactly I was doing it for other than a difference in taste. Was I really getting any additional health benefit from it to the point where it was going to add years onto my life?

A new study found that I wasn't crazy for thinking that:

The findings, published Wednesday in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, surveyed data on nutrition and health benefits from the last 50 years. Study leader Alan Dangour said the small nutritional differences between organic and non-organic are not significant to public health, BBC News reported.

Granted, more studies are needed to be done and I'm not going to knock the organic industry for staying away from pesticides. But, at the same time, I don't think non-organic is going to kill you or that organic is going to be the fountain of youth.

I'll occasionally still buy organic but, with such a big difference in price between organic and non-organic, I'm going to save some money and go non-organic.

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Back to Fasting

I was bored this week so I decided to do another fast yesterday.

I wrote a review on a fast I did for a couple of months here following the guidelines of the book Eat Stop Eat by Brad Pilon.

I did it a little different this time. Last time, I would have a meal before I went to bed and then wouldn't eat until the following night, 24 hours later. This time I finished up dinner around 5:30 pm on Wednesday and then didn't eat again until around 5:30 pm on Thursday. It was pretty much a breeze. Didn't even phase me all day that I hadn't eaten.

Drank about 4 or 5 cups of green tea, about 3 liters of water, and I got a Diet Coke in there too.

I can't recommend this type of guideline enough and if you follow it with a Paleo Diet on the days that you are eating, I think you're results will be outstanding.

Both the fasting guidelines and the Paleo Diet guidelines are included in the Lean Body Fat Loss Nutritional Guide that you get whenever you order one of the workouts from Lean Body Workouts. Go and check it out and when you get started on one of the 4-week workouts, don't hesitate to e-mail me at mike@leanbodytraining.com to let me know how it's going.

Have a good weekend.

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More Bad Information

I'm really sick of reading mainstream media health and fitness articles where their "advice" is just horrendous.

This article talks about how to burn 9 times more fat (more than what, it's not very clear).

Fine, it talks about intervals. sort of.

Exercisers who alternated moderate- and high-intensity cardio intervals burned nine times more fat than the moderate-only group in a study at Laval University in Quebec.

But then I get annoyed.

When you're toning, change the number of reps and the amount of weight you use between strength sessions. Doing bicep curls? Try this: One day you do 10 reps with 10-pound weights, and then the next 20 reps with 5-pound weights or whatever weight feels right to you.

I thought the article was about BURNING FAT not "toning"?? I don't care if you're "toning" (I hate that word) or trying to burn fat, stop making bicep curls a central part of your routine. Do pushups and rows and chinups instead. You'll burn more calories with those exercises AND you'll get "toned."

This one takes the cake:

Going two days without working out is enough to cause the size of fat cells to increase by 25 percent, according to research at the University of Missouri at Columbia.

Hmm. I never heard that before so I looked it up. What do ya know. The author fails to mention that this study that she cites was conducted ON FREAKIN' RATS.

If you want workouts that actually BURN calories without wasting time with bicep curls that aren't going to do anything, go to www.LBworkouts.com and find yourself a low cost 4 week workout that fits what you're looking for.

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