Eat omega 3s to build healthy cell membranes
You are what you eat. And so are your cells. Each of the tiny 100 trillion cells in your body has an outer layer called the membrane. The...
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Tanita Rose
- Feb 10, 2020
- 3 min
Choosing your carbohydrates [Food list!]
'Should I avoid carbs completely, or eat carbs at each meal for fuel?' Here is an excellent, all too common example of a binary question...
Tanita Rose
- Jan 31, 2020
- 7 min
Can you really pay off your sleep debt?
Ever tried to make up sleep on a Sunday morning? If you've steadily culled hours from your sleep from Monday to Friday, you'll accumulate...
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Tanita Rose
- Oct 1, 2019
- 8 min
Supplementing vitamin D [my n = 1 experiment]
I'd been unintentionally neglecting my bones for a while. Sounds odd, right? Isn't your skeleton sort of just there, doing its thing...
Tanita Rose
- Jul 17, 2019
- 8 min
Changing my meal frequency - why I decided to ditch the classic bodybuilder's diet
If I had a dollar for every time that I reached into my bag or an available fridge and collected one of my many containers of food to...
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Tanita Rose
- Jun 15, 2019
- 3 min
Restoring my hormones - connecting the pieces of puzzle [Mind map]
If you have a mission, you need a strategy. And then you execute, monitor and adjust. Your mission is unique to you. It could be to build...
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Tanita Rose
- May 9, 2019
- 7 min
Bone broth - how does it help digestion? [Infographic!]
Bone broth or animal stock has recently attracted attention for its health effects. There's a general understanding that it's excellent...
Tanita Rose
- Apr 17, 2019
- 7 min
Health halos and nutrient claims - can you trust what the food label tells you?
All health claims are misleading. Even if it's about a real food. Here's the reason. If you take a single feature of a food - it could...
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Tanita Rose
- Apr 2, 2019
- 4 min
A carb is (not just) a carb [infographic!]
A carb is a carb is a carb, right? That's the assumption behind the popular suggestion to steer clear of 'white' carbs - bread, pasta,...
Tanita Rose
- Mar 29, 2019
- 3 min
Are you healthy? It depends on the popular definition.
Are you healthy? Are your blood tests normal? It depends on the definition of healthy and normal at that time. It's easy to forget that...
Tanita Rose
- Mar 22, 2019
- 7 min
What's in your drug? Deciphering the details of my OC pill
Recently I've had a break out of acne. I'm 29 years old but it's as if my body has seen androgens for the first time. Funnily enough,...
Tanita Rose
- Mar 7, 2019
- 2 min
Pineapple and steak - odd couple or perfect match?
Both. Foods contain more than just nutrients. There are also enzymes present in some foods that help our bodies to digest certain...
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Tanita Rose
- Feb 28, 2019
- 7 min
Tracking your micros from food [Part 3] - Is your data accurate? [n = 1 experiment #2/2019]
Have you noticed that the nutrient composition of the same food can be a little different across different data sets? Unless you happen...
Tanita Rose
- Feb 21, 2019
- 4 min
Banana coconut bread
For years, I tried to avoid all things baking - doing it or eating it. I automatically equated 'baking', 'sugar', 'calories' and...
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Tanita Rose
- Feb 20, 2019
- 5 min
Tracking your micros from food [Part 2] - How do I do it?
For many years, I've been a My Fitness Pal user (translation: addict). I've deliberately cut this back in the last 12 months while not...
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Tanita Rose
- Feb 14, 2019
- 5 min
Tracking your micros from food [Part 1] - Should I bother?
Hands up if you've used a calorie or macro counting app before? That's most of us. I can't count the number of times that I've logged in...
Tanita Rose
- Feb 4, 2019
- 6 min
Macros v. Micros: crunching the numbers for almonds
I don't like talking in just 'macros'. Talking in just macros feels a bit like click bait headlines. It's quick, popular and enticing,...