The Problem With “Food as Fuel”

Here’s a concept to think about: the word “diet” is firmly, firmly linked with the idea of plates of steamed, flavourless vegetables and heaps of dry brown rice. Crack open dozens of fitness-centric diet guides and you’ll find all sorts of lifeless, depressing suggestions.
Not To Pick on Anyone…
Off the top of my head, I remember [...]


Posted in Diet, Featured Articles91 Comments

3 Ways to Get the Mediterranean Diet Into Your Life — Easily!

The world-famous Mediterranean diet comes in a lot of forms. It was popularized by a diet book way back in the 70s (or at some point around then), and is still held up today — at least anecdotally — as one of the world’s best and most delicious diets.
You don’t have to follow one particular [...]


Posted in Diet, Featured Articles84 Comments

Is There Really a Fast Food Diet?

No.
Simple as that, really — there is not.
At the end of our article on Domino’s Pizza, we asked you to talk about some of the things you hate when it comes to food marketing, and one thing that got mentioned a whole lot was this new campaign from Taco Bell — the drive-through diet.
Yes, the [...]


Posted in Diet, Featured Articles25 Comments

The “Only Two Things You Ever Have to Remember” About Eating Right.

We’ve covered “the basics” every which way as we’ve been learning more about this real food stuff — practically every time we sit down to write something on diet, or just the way we’re trying to eat, or anything to do with nutrition, we’re trying to convey how we’re interpreting it, how Zuzana and I [...]


Posted in Diet, Featured Articles55 Comments

Eating Late at Night — Does it Matter?

This is a super-common question we see a lot — what time is best to eat, or conversely, when is the worst time to eat?
Is There a ‘Late Night Eating’ Myth?
If we’d been writing this article a few months ago, there’s no doubt we would have quoted a few common responses online, and told you [...]


Posted in Diet, Featured Articles176 Comments

Farmer’s Chicken Recipe

Hi everyone,
This is a recipe that I came up with over the holidays. Frederick loves it and encouraged me to share it here with you guys. I hope you will enjoy this meal. It is really delicious! Let me know how you like it.

You will need: Whole grain bread chopped in pieces, chicken breasts (1/2kg) [...]


Posted in All Videos, Diet, Featured Articles, Recipes221 Comments

Should I Be Drinking A Crazy Amount of Water Every Day?

The “8 glasses of water per day” argument gets thrown around a lot in pretty much every diet/nutrition/piece of advice you can find. Your doctor has probably suggested it too. But is it really necessary? Is it the right amount?
Here’s the thing — there was a study published in 2008 from the University of Pennsylvania [...]


Posted in Diet, Featured Articles106 Comments

The 1 Weird Thing Domino’s Pizza Taught Me About Eating Real Food

The other day, I saw a story about Domino’s Pizza and their “risky” new ad campaign. They were playing against type, admitting in the advertisements that their old pizza wasn’t very good, showing focus groups teeming with customer dissatisfaction, and pretty much saying — hey, you know that pizza we’ve been selling you for the [...]


Posted in Diet, Featured Articles116 Comments

What About Milk?

A commenter recently asked us a question about how milk fits into the ‘real food’ framework, and whether or not we still drink it. Since you guys are absolutely invaluable when it comes to giving us subjects and ideas to write about, we’re going to talk about milk, too!
So our main question is not whether [...]


Posted in Diet, Featured Articles249 Comments

My Personal Inspiration And My Czech Lunch Recipe

Hi guys,
My workout for today was the Ab Blitz Workout that I did on December 18 – you can check out the workout here. My old record for this routine was 30 minutes and 34 seconds. Today I have completed the workout in 29 minutes and 51 seconds. I was using my cool pink Gymboss [...]


Posted in Diet, Featured Articles, daily workouts, life159 Comments




Perfect Body Measurements