Building your immune system during the cold & flu season

How to build the immune system!

I just came across this page at Ben Greenfield's website that had several leading authorities on health & nutrition giving their top reccomendations on "How to build your immune system during the cold & flu season" It is a quick and easy read with simple advice that we can all incorporate.

The expert advice comes from:

• Dr Phil Maffetone
• Nora Gedgaudas
• Dr David Minkoff
• Jimmy Moore
• Roger Drummer
• Dr Jeff Spencer
• Dr Mark Sircus
• Dr Toby Hallowitz
• Dr Murdoc Khalegi
• Dr Todd Schlapfer
• Ben Greenfield

Check it out at http://www.bengreenfieldfitness.com/2014/01/natural-cold-and-flu-remedies/

Navigating the nutritional confusion

Learn about the calorie myth on my new NUTRITION page

 Around my small little office the main topic of conversation seems to be diet and nutrition. My two co-workers saw me start running at 220lbs and watched me progress to the point where I could run ultramarathons. Consequently (sort of) they also saw me drop a ton of weight quite quickly. They attributed this to the running and exercising and I assured them that if I have learned anything; its that weight drops because of a clean diet not because of my daily workout. The ratio of importance between diet vs exercise in terms of weight loss is 70%:30% in my opinion. I know this because when I started my weight loss and running lifestyle I ate a combination off fast food and pre-packaged garbage otherwise known as the Standard American Diet (SAD). I cut back on the fast food and cleaned up my eating a little bit and saw very minimal drops in my weight even though I was burning about a 1000 k/cal per day working out. When my frustration with this boiled over I got super serious about my diet and dropped as many unnatural sources of energy as possible. I cut out almost all pre-packaged food. Fast food was absolutely out of the question. Immediately I saw massive drops in my weight. That to me proved the often heard saying "Abs are created in the kitchen!" is an absolute fact.