Almost 98% of the people that start training with us have looked for some kind of nutritional guidance. I enjoy coaching nutrition since it appears to be the best thing we can control to ensure long-term health and survival.
Hippocrates, the original doctor, believed “the natural way is the only way” and “natural food can prevent disease.” This is not the Big Pharma, health care industry standard of teaching, so I take responsibility to stand in the gap and give some different things to research and think about. From Sept 1999 to Dec 2009, I worked as a Certified Pharmacy Technician. In a 4 yr span I ran a pharmacy close to the North/South Korea border and I worked in various pharmacies at Madigan Army Medical Center on Fort Lewis, WA. The rest of the time I worked at The OSU Medical Center.
Eating healthy can be overwhelming in it’s own right, since there is so much information out there and most of it is conflicting. I have spent countless hours breaking down what’s in our food supply, and from that study I created FIVE McCohn Muscle Nutrition Principles.
1. Drink more water
If you can hit a gallon of water a day, that’s a great day.
2. Consume more vegetables
Cooked veggies are great, raw is even better
3. Eat lean protein
Hippocrates said pro-tein means “most important”
4. Consume healthy fats
Vital for your body to function optimally
5. Eat less sugar
A doctor once lectured how cocaine addiction and sugar addiction brain waves look the same.
Use these principles every meal, every day!
My best advice for losing weight quickly and reducing inflammation is avoid all bread, grains, cereal, soy, pastas, and pseudo grains= buckwheat, barley, oats, quinoa, millet…..
when you do this the inflammation in your body will go down. Let’s observe the term, “Gluten Free.” Take the protein out of the bread and what do you have left? The problem is not gluten, it’s genetically modified food and the glyphosates/other toxins being sprayed on it. Avoid and eliminate.
Try to go without bread, grain, and pasta for three weeks (at least cut down your consumption) and see what it does to your body. You will see that they have loaded foods with variances that shouldn’t be there.
When you get the McCohn Muscle app to help with your workouts, you will automatically be added to our Nutrition Facebook page where I will go more in depth about the food we consume.
If I can help you in any other way, let me know.