6 pack abs are made in the kitchen not the gym.
Sara Mahoney full of Baloney.
Every runner knows you cannot run when eating junk.
3 factors: rest, quality food and running.
Running exercises the heart, lung and blood.
No. Jog for an hour a day, five days a week, for a month. Congratulations! You just burned the calories in one pound of fat. Hope that jogging didn’t stimulate your appetite (it probably did).
You know, I always imagine these researchers wearing thick glasses and Birkenstocks sitting around eating broccoli and having white wine. Of course, they say I should give up chickenfried steak and gravy. They don’t even like it in the first place.
"...low-sugar and low-fat diet..."
Jim Fixx only made it to 52
Every morning I get up out of bed feeling ready to run at least a mile or two.
Then I lay back down until the feeling goes away.
Oh boy, where to begin. You must burn more than you consume. Consumption, no matter what is, is still consumption. You don’t have to exercise, you don’t have to run, you simply have to eat less. And a complete diet? Not one person in a thousand can do what the “government requirements” dictate. My consumption tonight: a bowel of curried lentils with onions, a salad of red leaf, fresh mint, and scallions. Then sourdough bread dipped in two olive oils. Before that I walked three miles, in addition to my six miles before that. So tell me I will gain weight and I am fine? Tell me. Don’t worry about my usual meat diet—for another day.
Chronic inflammation.
“McGillivray has a family history of chronic cardiac illness”
The most important factor is good genes, with respect to coronary heart disease. It’s more important than smoking, diet, or exercise. It’s really unfortunate that everybody wants to upend society completely because of a certain percentage of folks we can’t do anything about. They ruined commercial french fries for example. In the 70s we were all hectored about eating eggs, and “experts” suggested substituting oleo margarine for dairy butter.
I’m a runner. I follow a ketogenic diet, I do intermittent fasting, and I run/workout on an empty stomach in a fasted state. Never felt better.
If everyone ate healthy all the time, all restaurants would go out of business except for sea food, veggie & Indian restaurants.
Eat right, exercise daily, die anyway!
I do high intensity workouts regularly. My diet is not nearly what it should be - okay, it’s bad. But really, I’m at that point that I try to do everything in moderation and live life to enjoy it. While I do take of myself, when I go is not really up to me.
Genetics means far more to arteries than diet. Honest doctors tell their patients this. (I have a GREAT doctor!) You can eat cardboard and water and still have high cholesterol.
Honest doctors will also tell their patients about heart scans. It’s an MRI that will give you an image of your arteries and if they have any blockage.
I have 240 Cholesterol. Always have since I was a teenager. However, a recent heart scan shows no blockages whatsoever. No need for statins and their negative side-effects since a high cholesterol hasn’t resulted in blockages.
Cost for a heart scan: $99 and 15 minutes total time. The results are immediately provided. I did mine at South Denver Cardiology. Wife did too. No blockages in her arteries. Best piece of mind.
Ran a 10K this past weekend. At the finish line they had donuts, ice cream bars, cold chocolate milk and other yummy delights. At the Rock n Roll marathon they handed out cold beers at the finish line - at 10am. If I had to eat healthy, what would be the point of running?
No.
Diet is more important than young people think. For instance, runners who keep creeping up their protein til they hit their sweet spot will be rewarded. Especially adding whey protein powder, which gets quantity up for low volume better than the meat you should be eating at a meal — follow a run with a low sugar, high protein, moderate fat smoothie. This will show you muscle progress (and loss of fat if you’re going for it, not if you aren’t) like nothing else.
So when you’re in your 20s you can eat total junk and swim like michael Phelps, it does eventually catch up. Focus on protein, make all your eggs, dairy, meat come from healthy animals so their fat is actually GOOD FOR YOU so enjoy the fatty meats etc. Add some veggies including good root veggies like potatoes. There you go. If that is your diet as an athlete, you can throw in some extra unnecessary calories at the end of the day like carbs, dessert, or beer.