Each year, many of us spend hundreds of dollars on vitamin supplements in the quest for better health, an athletic advantage or as a silver bullet to “scare off” disease and hold aging at bay. Could it be possible we are wasting our money and doing more harm than good in the process?

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I am please to present a guest posting from my friend, Ori Hofmekler.

The Skinny On Meal Frequency Studies-by Ori Hofmekler

Forced feeding, fixed calories, false indications

Recent studies on the impact of meal frequency on middle aged men and women
raise serious questions to their relevant real life conditions. The studies
were conducted by Dr. Mark Mattson, a pioneer researcher in the area of human
feeding, is known for his ground breaking studies on intermittent fasting. Dr.
Mark Mattson and myself have been corresponding regarding the benefits of the
one main meal per day approach, and about a year ago he shared with me over the
phone some information regarding the studies of which results we’ve published
recently. To avoid falsely driven conclusions, let’s examine the facts behind
these studies and clarify some key points:

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Father Time-less?

2008 was a very good training year for me for many reasons. I am thankful for all the accomplishments, events, but mostly the people who are a part of my training life. They kept it fun! Here are a few of the reasons: Read the rest of this entry