BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY As the holiday season rolls around thoughts of office and other parties, family dinners and the various holiday foods come to mind. It is a time of fellowship, shared eating experiences for many. Holidays, and vacations, may destress your mind, but the holiday eating often stresses your body more than heal it….
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY I am going to cut to the chase on this one, because I don’t want anyone to be confused about this. The concept of a NEW, FANTASTIC superfood is all hype. Just a way to push a product, or to create media buzz. Most healthy natural foods, especially plant based, are in…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY A common misconception is that InteKai is structured around meal plans. This could not me more wrong. Meal plan can mean anything from planning your meals day to day (which is generally a great idea) to, a number of pre-purchased meals for an academic semester (college meal plan). Commonly people are thinking…
If I only had a dollar for every time I heard… “I don’t know what happened this week, I went to the gym 5 days this week”, or, “I worked out so hard this week, I thought I’d lose more” … I would chose a solid investment portfolio and I could retire. This is the…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY “Toning” is not real, it only exists in the mouths of fitness sales people, misinformed/misleading trainers and coaches, and in the minds of generations of people influenced by the fitness industry. To put it simply, toning is a strategic industry lie which is now a fitness myth. Toning is believed to be…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY ANOTHER LEVEL OF HANGRY This decade has seen the rise and establishment of the word, hangry. A rise boosted by the candy bar manufacturer’s advisements, showing sugar and chocolate induced transformation from angry to calm and collected personalities. Their depictions may be impossibly dramatic, and in the long term their solution is…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY The odds are, your habits and way of life are killing you. To move away from health risks you need to change your lifestyle and make a routine of your new choices. You have heard people who have all the answers, “It’s simple, just eat less, eat naturally, cut out the bad…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY Protein supplements have been the foundation of bodybuilding supplementation for decades, once found on a dedicated shelf in the back of a few pharmacies, or in very specialized vitamin or health stores. In just the last 12 years however protein supplement sales have rocketed from 200 or so million per annum to…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY Intermittent fasting (IF), one of many relatively new diet trends, increasingly I am hearing, “I can’t eat until midday,” or, “we have to eat before eight, I can’t eat after eight pm, I’m intermittent fasting.” So what is intermittent fasting? And should you be considering it? WHAT IS INTERMITTENT FASTING Many individuals…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY Your “Wellness Probabilities”, are the only real measure of how your wellness efforts will pay off. But, before you can fully appreciate this reality, you must understand what probability is. Think of probability as a measurement of how likely an event is to occur. If you never go to the south pole…