by Martin MacDonald Intro If you're reading this you're probably well aware that most mainstream ideas about healthy eating are terrible. Recommendations on salt intake, cholesterol intake, servings of carbohydrate etc are all based on sketchy, if not incorrect, science. (NOTE: If you’re not aware of these things I urge you to do some digging [...]
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by Martin MacDonald This is an article I wrote many years ago for the Powerbase Newsletter (Loughborough University's performance gym). It's a basic, easy to read article that is a good starting point for most. The most frequent question asked by athletes and non-athletes alike, other than “How much can you bench?”, has got to [...]
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by Martin MacDonald Created in 1980, the glycemic index (GI) is a measure of the ability of carbohydrate in a food to raise blood glucose levels. The 'reference food' to which all other foods are measured against is pure glucose. Some reference tables actually use white bread as the reference food which can cause considerable [...]
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by Ben Coker BSc, CSCS When we see a female cover model, there are two aspects of the physique that women aspire to have. The first is the ‘leanness’ or level of fat on the body achieved on the whole by effective nutrition and calorie expenditure. The second is the shape of the muscles on [...]
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by Martin MacDonald My recently imposed goal is to reach out to and educate as many people about the science of nutrition. The REAL science, not the junk that you see on TV, read in the magazines and have forced upon you by 'healthy eating' bodies. I say imposed because I feel it a duty [...]
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