fitness

Essential Nutrients for Clean Eating

With changing my lifestyle to eating clean and exercising regularly, I have had so many questions on how I’ve achieved my weight loss goals. The two key techniques that I have found to be successful for my body have been eliminating sugar and adding in healthy fats, such as coconut oil, into my diet. As a disclaimer, these methods are what work for me, but keep in mind that everyone’s body is different and responds to different methods of dieting. Brendan Brazier recently wrote an article on what a plant-based athletes shopping cart looks like, which was right on point […]

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Achieve Your Warrior Body with Coconut Oil

Ok, how do I put this lightly?  You need more coconut in you life. Many tropical cultures survive on diets consisting primarily of coconut in various forms.  It’s probably the most important source of plant-based fat in existence, perhaps chief even among animal-based fats also. Why? Medium-chain triglycerides. Fats are complicated.  As is also the case with the opposite sex, we can’t live without them, they come in different shapes and sizes, and have fundamental but varied affects on our bodies.  For the purpose of explaining the awesomeness of coconut, we will peel back a few layers of the onion […]

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Build Your Better Body By 2014

With the New Year, rapidly approaching everyone is looking for an edge, and trying to beat the New Year’s resolutioners, to have their best body by 2014. For most people this new body is just about having washboard, shredded obliques, and a nicer backside which means putting on muscle and losing as much fat as possible. Remember you aren’t just muscles; you have your heart and mind to worry about too, there is one food out there that can help you improve all three, the coconut. Coconut water is packed full of potassium and easily digested carbs, exactly what your […]

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