In much the same way that osteopenic young girls and women stand a very high chance of becoming osteoporotic little old ladies (or as the case often is, osteoporotic not-so-old women), dynapenic (weak) children, teens, and young adults are quite likely to become dynapenic and sarcopenic (low muscled) older adults, with significant flow-on effects in […]
Sarcopenia, as understood by most lay people, is the loss of muscle mass which accompanies ageing. More specifically, it is the loss of fast twitch fibres resulting in the clinically relevant loss of muscle power. It is the classic state we associate with frail little old men and women who can no longer get out […]
The humans are broken. We live in a world with an obesity epidemic – there’s a no-brainer statement. We are obsessed by fat. By how we get fat, and by how we get rid of it. Let’s take some heavily rounded out numbers; approximately 40% of New Zealand society is overweight, and near-enough to 30% […]
Back in January I published this guest post from Tim, describing his journey after tumbling down the paleo rabbit hole. Well here is a pictorial and graphical update of Tim’s progress… I first met Tim in September 2012, so not long after the first photo was taken. Since following my advice, wilfully and […]
Regular readers will know that Sanitarium offers up much fodder for me. The irony of a church-run company taking the immoral, if not illegal, path of using a loophole in our tax system (which appears to not want to be closed any time soon) to fund-raise for its Christian mission in an increasingly secular society, […]
This is an essay I wrote for my workplace recently. I thought I’d share it here too. Healthy Kick-Start or Health Time-Bomb? The recent government announcement of an extension of a programme which gives children breakfast in school, sponsored by a dairy and a cereal company, throws up several issues and questions for me as […]
Wellington… Yes, hello. We are coming to you to talk about food and to drink coffee in your fair city. We’ve even been putting in some high-wind landing practice by flying into Hobart recently. Whenever we run a workshop, the success of it hinges on having passionate people on the ground, squirreling away, convincing people […]
