Science Archives - DNA Personal Training https://dnapersonaltraining.com/category/dna/science/ Tucson's Fitness and Nutrition Experts Wed, 02 Jul 2014 05:18:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 39550688 DNA Guarantees 1 Thing… https://dnapersonaltraining.com/dna-guarantees-1-thing/ Wed, 02 Jul 2014 03:29:04 +0000 http://dnatucson.website/?p=3614 …that we can get you ripped in six months, training three times per week for thirty minutes. No BS, no pills, no supplements, no weird fad diets, and most important of all, NO hours of torturous training. Caption: “We Can Get You Ripped by Summer” When Angel walked in for the first time, he was […]

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]]> 3614 Snooze or Lose, Part 1 https://dnapersonaltraining.com/snooze-or-lose-part-1/ Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:30:15 +0000 http://dnatucson.website/?p=2053 Welcome to the first installment of a DNA series on sleep. Shuteye, 40 winks, sawing logs, catching some z’s, visiting la la land, zonking out…once we get past about age 9, we LOVE to sleep, and few of us get enough precious hours of slumber. Unfortunately, we can sabotage our training and nutrition efforts by […]

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]]> 2053 Smoking a Joint https://dnapersonaltraining.com/smoking-a-joint/ Sat, 10 Aug 2013 00:53:50 +0000 http://dnatucson.website/?p=2168

(How’s that for a post title??) I bet that you or someone you know has, or has had, joint pain at some point in your training career. (I don’t care if you have only been with DNA for 3 classes – you have a training career!) Plenty of people show up with a history of […]

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]]> 2168 Huevos, Cholesterol https://dnapersonaltraining.com/huevos-cholesterol/ Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:00:12 +0000 http://dnatucson.website/?p=2070 We get a lot of questions from clients about different foods: what to eat, how much, when, and is food X on the plan? Some of our recommendations run against USDA guidelines (which are influenced by Big Agriculture, i.e., financially engineered; pardon the political statement but it’s true) as well as everything we have been […]

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]]> 2070 Man Made vs. Real Food https://dnapersonaltraining.com/man-made-vs-food/ Wed, 15 May 2013 17:01:32 +0000 http://dnatucson.website/?p=2031 At DNA, we advocate real diets made of real food. We have considered offering protein powders and other supplements, but we just don’t support the consumption of lab-made products. Many are toxic offer all kinds of health pitfalls; additives ranging from corn to artificial colors should not be in your body, and over time, they […]

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]]> 2031 The Sweetener Spectrum https://dnapersonaltraining.com/the-sweetener-spectrum/ Tue, 25 Sep 2012 04:05:34 +0000 http://dnatucson.website/?p=1217   Our clients often ask about how to sweeten foods in the absence of sugar, and which sweeteners are the best ones to use. We all understand that processed white sugar and corn products (such as high fructose corn syrup) cause insulin spikes and leptin disruption that can trigger inflammation, and over time, systemic inflammation. Systemic […]

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