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Nutrition / Performance nutrition workshops
Held for allied fitness / health professionals (Performance gyms, coaches, personal trainers, therapists…) whose job nature requires, or could benefit to the very least, form extra knowledge in the field of nutrition. Fitness industry is highly competitive (as is...
Corporate workshops / seminars
Nutrition is becoming increasingly recognized as one of the most important factors for overall health and longevity.Unfortunately, the right information is hard to find and general population, for the most part lacks education in the area. Many corporations, on the...
Weight Management
Jovana Djakovic, Ms. Types Of Body Fat There is a trend these days where many people seem to be advocating against the ‘skinny’ or ‘model’ kind of look, and that is absolutely fine – it is both unhealthy and unrealistic for most. However, the opposite is just as bad....
Performance Nutrition
Performance nutrition is very different than nutrition for general health and wellbeing. If you are an athlete, or a recreational trainee seeking to optimise your performance, your nutrition is going to play a crucial role in achieving this. As such, this diet is...
What is the limit to our muscular potential?
What is the limit to our muscular potential?.The main limiting factors are: Bone size and muscle bellies length Genetic information Age Cardio – vascular Myostatin - Myostatin is a protein that was first isolated by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University in...
Fat and Inflammation
Jovana Djakovic, Ms. Types Of Body FatThere is a trend these days where many people seem to be advocating against the ‘skinny’ or ‘model’ kind of look, and that is absolutely fine – it is both unhealthy and unrealistic for most. However, the opposite is just as bad....
Plant VS Animal based protein
Not all protein is the same. If you go to a supermarket, you will be able to read the breakdown of fats and carbohydrate on a typical nutritional label – but for protein you won’t. It just says – protein in grams. What does this tell us? Not very much. After all, you...
Public health issues and sugar metabolism
Never before have we had these levels of metabolic syndrome (obesity, diabetes, hypertension, high triglycerides) as we have today. Back in the 70s there has been a strong propaganda against dietary fat. People have been led to believe that dietary fat makes us store...
Hypertrophy
What determines how much muscle will you gain / maintain? A lot of factors come into play. 1)The natural level of testosterone a person has. Testosterone is without question strongly related to muscular size. One of the more relevant studies is one published in...
What else can explain the fact that some people lose fat easier than others?
The FTO gene or ‘fat mass and obesity-associated gene’ is associated with increased obesity in animals and humans. A 2007 study of 38,759 Europeans examined how variants of the FTO gene affects human obesity. It...