Tanita RoseMay 6, 20202 minHealth isn't an end game, it's endless playI stopped focusing on 'being healthy' years ago. Instead, I shifted into managing my health state. It's easy to talk about health as a...
Tanita RoseApr 13, 20202 min'Many scientists agree that': The Simpsons and the appeal to dubious authorityHere's a trick to make one thing look true and another thing appear false. All you have to do is break the rules of reasoning. It's easy,...
Tanita RoseMar 5, 20202 minIf most people are lactose intolerant, should I stop eating dairy?A lot of popular claims about food are utterly illogical, yet ironically convincing. It's tricky to spot the common errors in reasoning...
Tanita RoseFeb 10, 20203 minChoosing 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 RoseOct 25, 20194 minFour tips to reprogram your mindset from 'normal' eating to eating for performance'Congratulations on your competition! No more dieting, huh? So, it's back to eating normally again?' Each time I hear this question, I...
Tanita RoseOct 8, 20195 minLifting builds a stronger body imageIf there's one thing that has completely changed my body image, it's strength training. If not for my focus on getting stronger in the...
Tanita RoseOct 1, 20198 minSupplementing 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 RoseSep 10, 20192 min'How to' is a seductive short cutThere's something alluring about a quick 'how to' solution. Skip the reasons and the science, and just tell me what I need to do already!...
Tanita RoseJul 17, 20198 minChanging my meal frequency - why I decided to ditch the classic bodybuilder's dietIf 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...
Tanita RoseJun 15, 20193 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...
Tanita RoseMay 9, 20197 minBone 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 RoseMay 3, 20198 minFunctional hypothalamic amenorrhea: a hormonal state or abnormality?It took me a while to actually pay attention to my lack of periods. For a while, I just ignored it and assumed it'd sort itself out. But...
Tanita RoseApr 26, 20194 minFour reasons I choose to eat pasture raised meatToxins, taste, fats and nutrients. These are the reasons that I choose to eat beef that's pasture raised rather than factory farmed....
Tanita RoseApr 17, 20197 minHealth 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...
Tanita RoseApr 2, 20194 minA 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 RoseMar 29, 20193 minAre 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 RoseMar 22, 20197 minWhat's in your drug? Deciphering the details of my OC pillRecently 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 RoseFeb 8, 20192 minWhy I'm grateful that it took me months to lose body fatI'm not a '6 week transformation' story. Not even close. I trained consistently and dialled in my diet (at the time, I had to make some...
Tanita RoseJan 21, 20193 minEggs count as a 'health' food ... for the moment, at leastThanks to our historically fat phobic culture, dietary guidelines have cast the humble egg as a cholesterol laden villain for decades....
Tanita RoseMay 3, 20183 minThe optimal macronutrient ratio to lose fat ... doesn't existCalories. Macros. Ratios. This is how we tend to think and talk about food and nutrients. It's a message that's firmly ingrained in...