What are fats anyway? Fats are a vital substance in our bodies that utilizes certain vitamins to help our organs to function properly, keep skin healthy, and is our body’s main way to store energy. Fats are made up of three molecules that are joined together, otherwise known as “triglycerides.” Our bodies make most of […]

When I was around 8 years old, I remember I used to go out to the patio of our Mākaha house and watch my Dad work out. He had a pull-up bar, a couple of chairs to do dips, a bench with a barbell that had the cement blocks on each end. I remember the […]

When I was a kid, I remember seeing my grandmother (on my mom’s side) pulled out the entire front row of her teeth and throw it into a cup of water. Needless to say, it was really disturbing. It made me ponder hard about if my teeth were fated to become like hers. Obviously, as […]

This story has come up numerous times between me and my clients, friends, and family. The experiment was conducted by Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, who set out to prove that a calorie is just a calorie in the now infamous, “Twinkie Diet“. He wanted to show that you […]