Nutrition basics-Conclusion or 3+1 ways to fix your diet

      The best diet is the one you can follow for a long time.When you think that you are food deprived you cant have results.Everyone is different and because of that general guidelines about nutrition dont work most of the time.But some general directions are always helpful for a beginner.

Nutrition basics-Number and timing of meals

    One of the most common advice nutrition wise is that you should eat a lot of small meals per day.Another one is that breakfast is the most important meal in the day and that eating at night should be avoided because you will gain more fat.There are a lot of other things like that.While most of them are justified logically they are not hard facts.A recently started trend in nutrition is people doing diets involving fasting and these diets go against most of these facts yet the people doing them see results.

Nutrition basics-Protein

Protein,the holy grail of nutrition today.Foods which contain a lot of protein such as meat,eggs,the dairy products and the protein supplements have become very popular on the Internet,they have flooded the super market shelves and they have filled athlete's diet.Studies have proven that protein consumption helps on the creation of lean muscle mass and in some situations it assists fat burning.So it seems that all this protein worshiping trend seems justified.

A T bone steak.Lots of protein in it and it is delicious as well

Value of Gold

It is known that, gold has a long history starting thousand years back.  It has been used in jewels, as a mean for transaction, as a currency, in circuits etc. but no matter the time, it symbolizes the wealth and prosperity of the holder. During wars, gold was the first valuable thing to loot and now all countries have large quantities of it in their reserves (check the link that describes the countries having the largest amounts).

Golden mask from Mycenae grave in Thessalonica museum

Are we humans really equal? (Part 2/2)

On my yesterday post i covered the basics about how people treated each other in their early days of existence. I don’t think its worth to mention the Roman Empire or the medieval ages, more or less the same rules apply as of the first part. The only thing worth mentioning is when women earned the right to vote in the western world but I don’t think how this balanced things.Let’s see why.

For thousands of years we treat each other in ways to satisfy our own interests and survival (individuals or society), why would you ever think, even for a moment that this could change now? Just like the slaves in our first civilizations, now we have Chinese or Indians to work in factories and create staff and gadgets for multinational companies, who sell their products to the "civilized". We have immigrants to “serve” us either as work labors or we choose the best for academia and research. And please, please don’t tell me about the globalized new world and the equal opportunities it gives I am going to puke. If it gave equal opportunities, then people wouldn’t need to migrate in order to have a dignified life, so simple, so true.

Are we humans really equal? (Part 1/2)

I’ve  this question on my mind for quite some time now and the conclusion I ended up with certainty is NO! Well first of all thank you for calling me racist, but let’s see if you are right …

Starting from our primitive civilization, when we hunted dears to eat and our dress code was similar to Flintstones, you had to fight for your everyday survival. If you weren’t fast or clever enough, there was a high risk to be killed

Nutrition basics-Carbs

   After fat  carbohydrates became the enemy.As with fats foods with low carbs ,especially low sugar, appeared but even with them there were no visible results on the overall health of the population.Lets see what is the matter with this macronutrient then.

Nutrition basics-Fat

   Fat was considered the thing to avoid some years ago(well in the 90s).The food industry took advantage of this and many low fat products were produced.But overweight people remained that way even by avoiding fat so it seems that fat wasn't the problem. Fat is said to be connected with various diseases and that was the main reason people avoid it.Lately though this trend is starting to change.Saturated fat isn't so bad anymore and egg yolks isn't supposed to kill you.

Nutrition basics-Calories 2

   Last time was about the definition of a calorie as a way to measure the energy going into the body.Today I will talk about how a calorie can be used to measure how much energy you spend.The first thing someone should know is the basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the amount of daily energy(calories) expended at rest.By rest I mean by doing nothing or to say it more clearly lying in bed all day watching TV or something like that.I could also say that it is the sufficient energy released in order to keep the vital organs functioning which while true creates the misconception that you will die if you dont take that amount of calories(energy).The amount of calories consisting your BMR are needed in order to stay in the same weight.If the calories are not enough for the body to sustain its functions at this weight,it will start consuming itself in order to do that.

The Art of Marketing

I was inspired to write the following after the death of Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie.

Most of you already know Mr. Jobs. He was pronounced the mister perfect innovator, a modern pioneer and the co- founder of Apple. Well, to be honest I liked him but not that much. I believe he was indeed ahead of his time on the 80s and 90s. What I really acknowledge about him is PIXAR and his Stanford speech. Have you ever seen some of PIXAR’s amazing animated clips like this or this? Not to mention the exceptional films they produced! Nevertheless, he was worshiped like a messiah by the mainstream media, something which I believe he didn’t deserve that much. In my humble opinion, he was a businessman who the last 10 years sold shiny and stylish gadgets and nothing more. 

Burn the burner of the witch

It isn’t a surprise that nowadays there is a big diversity of opinions. Different cultures, different people, different mindsets, different experiences and all of these components, make the human perceive his world differently from others.  The same principal applies to the definition for truth.  In my opinion, there isn’t just one (at least in most cases), but everyone uses his/her own view to determine it, as long as he can support it with arguments.

Nutrition basics-Calories

Most of the times when you ask for advice in order to achieve a physique goal some regular answers are eat less or eat more.But what are the reasons for an answer like that?The main reason is the role of calories.You surely have heard the phrase calories in-calories out The next very good question that comes up in mind is what is a calorie.Well the calorie is a metric unit of energy.There are two definitions for it: the small or gram calorie and the large calorie or kilocalorie (kcal).The kilocalorie is used in nutritional contexts . In such context calorie and kilocalorie are equivalent.

Nutrition basics-Introduction

     A very common topic of discussion these days is nutrition. Most of the times when someone is discussing with others about this wide topic the end result is everyone being confused about what is right and wrong.The wide range of information available to a person today is to be blamed for this phenomenon.

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