Pacific Health Labs

May 10
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THERE’S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN conventional eating and functional eating. Conventional eating, or the way most people eat, assumes that a calorie is a calorie no matter when you eat it. A gram of carbohydrate consumed at eight o’clock in the morning is no different than a gram of carbohydrate consumed at seven o’clock in the Read More »

May 02
Exercise for Weight Loss

“You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She’s 97 today and we don’t know where the hell she is.” ~Ellen Degeneres EVERY WEIGHT LOSS PROFESSIONAL INSISTS that exercise is an integral part of any effective weight-loss program.  It seems logical that if a Read More »

Apr 25
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“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” ~ Ernest Hemingway Holding on to extra pounds? Could be you need more sleep. The co-author of Hardwired for Fitness tells why getting your zzz’s is an easy way to fire up your metabolism. ARE YOU GETTING ENOUGH SLEEP? Read More »

Apr 18
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“Fatigue makes cowards of us all.” ~ Vince Lombardi ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO, I began research to develop a sports gel product that could be taken during an event that would provide an endurance boost for competing athletes when they hit the wall or bonk. We now know that there are two fatigue centers in Read More »

Apr 11
Climbing Nutrition | PacificHealth

By Dr. Robert Portman IN THE 1970s, scientists at the Human Performance Lab at Ball State University published a series of landmark studies showing that nutritional supplementation during exercise could enhance endurance performance.  Since then there have been hundreds of studies that have extended these findings to almost every sport.  As a result, nutrition has Read More »

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