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Keeping Up with Current and Not-So-Current Research (August 2022)

August 22, 2022 | John Paul Catanzaro

Research can provide important information to health and fitness professionals, but trying to keep up with it all can be overwhelming! Not to worry, ...

A Salad A Day Keeps The Doctor Away

May 13, 2020 | John Paul Catanzaro

One aspect of a meal that you can’t appreciate in a photo is taste. Today’s salad was crazy good!Each bite was unique and had so much flavour, an...

Healthy Meals in a Pinch

November 23, 2019 | John Paul Catanzaro

If you've read my book Lean and Mean, you'll know that I'm a big fan of leftover dinner for breakfast and lunch. You make enough at night to carry y...

Keeping Up with Current and Not-So-Current Research (Part 3)

October 31, 2017 | John Paul Catanzaro

Research can provide important information to health and fitness professionals, but trying to keep up with it all can be overwhelming! Not to worry, ...

Focus on the Cause of Disease

January 10, 2017 | John Paul Catanzaro

My role as a Clinical Exercise Physiologist is to promote health and fitness. I do not manage disease. That's what medical doctors do. For the most p...

Avoid The White Devils

March 13, 2016 | John Paul Catanzaro

https://youtu.be/DqbDh9RoTn0 The lure to eat certain foods can be very difficult to resist and once you give in to temptation, it's almost impos...

The Choices You Make in 2016

January 01, 2016 | John Paul Catanzaro

Every day we make thousands of choices – some big, some small – and every one of them can influence your life. Even the most minor choice you mak...

The First Step to Gut Health

June 09, 2015 | John Paul Catanzaro

The first step toward healing the gut involves a procedure known as a Vitamin C Flush. This is a clinical pearl that I picked up years ago from Dr. ...

Do Not Teach Health If You Do Not Represent Health!

April 26, 2015 | John Paul Catanzaro

In his How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy! presentation, Paul Chek mentions that the average medical doctor dies 10 years younger than their average pa...

My Eldest Client

April 07, 2015 | John Paul Catanzaro

My eldest client is 87 years young. I've seen her twice a week since 1998. At the time, she was experiencing signs of osteopenia and her doctor recom...

Pay Now or Pay Later

February 06, 2015 | John Paul Catanzaro

If you haven't read Shawn Buckley's article The Taxation of Supplements, do yourself a favour and check it out. Buckley makes some excellent points i...

Things Happen For A Reason

December 11, 2014 | John Paul Catanzaro

Warning: This is not one of my typical training-related blog posts. If you’re looking for information that will help your career as a fitness prof...

Challenge the Establishment: Dispelling Five Common Health and Fitness Misconceptions

January 05, 2010 | John Paul Catanzaro

In life we take many things for granted. People are told to go on a low fat diet and do some aerobic training, and yet they still gain body fat. You...