October 2015 - Olive Branch

26 Oct 2015

The Washington Post Is Dead Wrong About Salad (and their arguments are stupid)

Why You Shouldn’t Always Believe What You Read - Even From Perceived Reputable Sources As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, the stated mission is, as I modestly put it in the first entry “to be a shining beacon of truth in a sea of bullsh*t about health and fitness”. Now the readership may be small (but growing!) but I like to think that if I can help a few hundred, or hopefully even

How Do I Know Today’s Science Won’t Be Debunked 15 years From Now?

By Alan Leung

If you’ve been following my blog for some time, then you may feel that I cite a lot of science - a lot of new science for that matter, especially when it comes to exercise and nutrition. Often times, they fly in the face of concepts and principles that were once thought to be true and that may have also have been based on science - old science. For example, everyone thought that cold stretching