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FUEL Seminar Saturday December 13th!
“Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.†- Hippocrates
We'll be holding our F.U.E.L (Feeding U Energy for Life) Seminar on Saturday, December 13 from 11am to 1pm.
The FUEL Seminar will be covering a variety of topics, including but not limited to the following:
Strategies for healthy eating in the real world
Foraging in the urban jungle
How to eat “in the Zoneâ€
Fat is not the enemy
Real World Eats
The real deal on carbs
Real women eat real food
Top Fuel eating for serious athletes
Adult Beverages 101
Paleo/Zone (the ultimate fuel for athletes)
Hormonal effects of food
Disease prevention with food
The cost for the seminar is $100/person and includes food and drink (we've gotta put you to the test afterward and make sure you can apply what you learn in the seminar!).
To register for the seminar, contact us at (510) 595-9348 or info@crossfitoakland.com.
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Sorry, for the delayed response guys.
A few of you asked, how many is too many? The important thing to remember about food is that too much of anything even a good thing, is not necessarily healthy. Approach nutrition as you do CrossFit- change it up!
How you cook your eggs is critical in determing how many to eat. The fat and cholesterol in the yolk become damaged by heat, so it's best to cook them on LOW heat- soft boiled or poached. Obviously, fried eggs are a not the way to go. Quality is the next thing to consider. If your eggs are from a generic egg producer and of low quality then keep the quantity low- 1-2 every other day. If on the other hand, you buy organic, free-range, better quality eggs then you're safe eating more. Heck, you could even eat them raw if you'd like.
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> If on the other hand, you buy organic, free-range, better quality eggs then you're safe eating more.
Please provide some supporting data for this statement.
According to Artemis Simopoulos, MD, nutrition expert and president for the Center for Genetics, Nutrition and Health, in Washington, D.C. and author of the book, "The Omega Diet," those eggs from free range chickens will not raise cholesterol. This study was in the New England Journal of Medicine. The factory supermarket eggs have a ratio of omega 6's to omega 3's 320 to 1, whereas the eggs from free range chickens are perfectly balanced Ç¿ 1 to 1. Too much omega 6 increases rates of many diseases.
From June Russell's website.
> This study was in the New England Journal of Medicine.
I am searching for that study on NEJM's website and have not yet found it. I am extraordinarily suspicious of the claim that free-range eggs are much different from their conventionally raised brethren. If I can find some supporting data for that claim, I would obviously need to revise my position. So, I am definitely in search of something to sway me one way or the other.
The only thing I found so far was an article comparing the egg, shell, and yolk of several different eggs based on how those eggs were produced. Their sample size? One dozen eggs from each of 5 categories. Sixty eggs does not strike me as a very impressive number. They do briefly mention n-3:n-6 ratios in the abstract, but they are nowhere near the ratios mentioned in The Omega Diet. However, I am not sure if n-3 means omega-3 or not. I would assume that it does.
Robyn- No Sugar? What is your vice, Crossfit? When you crave a cookie, you grab a #45 bar instead. You crazy. That is control.
I would like to R.S.V.P. for the Dec. 13th Fuel Seminar. It is time to commit.
um, you guys are food nerds! but thats cool i guess...
off to go bake a dozen cinnamon rolls and eat em in one sitting. my studies have shown that the cinnamon roll diet increases strength exponentially, but makes your fran time suck. Tom, dont bother looking that one up...
i must of had a dozen of those rolls this morning...
I love eggs! I eat at least 2 whole eggs and 2 blocks of egg whites for breakfast every morning, usually in an omelette with a block of Trader Joes goat cheese as well. Maybe I'll switch to 4 whole eggs again, it's tastier that way anyhow! Connie, thanks for the info!
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Tom,
n-3 does mean Omega-3. I've heard and read about the n-3 to n-6 ratios being way different in grassfed beef versus grain fed beef, and wild salmon versus farmed salmon, so I bet it holds for free range eggs vs factory farmed eggs as well. And it is important for health to have better ratios of n-3 to n-6 in what we eat.
I acknowledge this may be the case. In fact, intuitively, it would seem that happier animals living more natural lives would produce better eggs, meat, etc... However, proving any of those assertions, let alone their real effect on human health, would be difficult and extremely expensive.
I don't know how many eggs get produced in a given day in this country, but I suspect that it is probably measured in the hundreds of thousands. How do you know what the omega 3 to omega 6 ratio is for all of those eggs without getting some kind of representative sampling from across the country and noting the methods behind their production? What's more, you would probably need to account for the time of year and spread the samples out through a given period. Do you account for the breed of chicken, the climate, the various diets that fall under the banner of organic? What is an average egg? All of the variables involved make my head hurt.
The original assertion was that organic, free range eggs are better for you. How are they better for you? That's not quite clear, but the omega 3/omega 6 ratio may or may not be different between conventional eggs and organic/free range eggs. If, in fact, that ratio is demonstrably different, what does that mean? Are the levels of omega 6 fatty acids in even the most "unbalanced" eggs problematic? Once again, my head begins to hurt. The bottom line is that the variables involved in nutrition and health quickly approach infinity. There is immense variation between individuals which makes things more complicated still. Blanket statements about certain things being better for you than others are often poorly supported and are frequently overturned.
Actually, your work agrees very nicely with a large study conducted by the Journal of Sports Medicine which found that cinnamon + sugar = 400 lb squat. Note, my previous sentence was not intended to be serious.
My wife's favorite magazine, Mother Earth News, did a story about the nutrition in the eggs from pasture raised hens last year. The believe there is a big difference versus commercially farmed eggs.
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Real-Food/2007-10-01/Tests-Reveal-Healthi...
Tom,
in my experience... cinamon + sugar + tons of ice cream equated to a 400lb squat, but yes... a horrible fran time.
i want a fran-off tomorrow! who's in...
mikey- you down to defend your C2B fran title and give the mainsite WOD its just due?
If I remember correctly, you posted the following on the 13th of Nov.
"Over the past several months, we've been extremely heartened to see the fitness level of so many of our members increase. Along the way, though, we've too often neglected the genius, and lack of bias, of the main-site WOD programming, which in the past has been the quickest path to the broad-based level of fitness to which we aspire.
To be honest, we've done this because it's been so exciting to see you all strut your stuff and show us what you're made of. But everyone has blind spots and weaknesses. And it's only through tackling the main-site WODs that you get a clear sense of what you're made of, and what you aren't.
As such, we're recommitting to give the main-site WODs their just due."
P, since you already did Fran today, I'm guessing Mike and anyone else who does Fran will beat you! I'm putting side bets on how many people will shut you down...at least 4?
sounds like a challenge...
T - whoa! them fighting words. I want to know who these 4 are?
in fact, I say we have a little side wager because Ill bet that A. ill beat my time from today and B. that you wont beat my time!
any takers? and I need to know what we're betting on? input is welcome...
december 17th... ill make a bet with you.
Ah, now we are getting somewhere. They took 6 eggs from 14 locations around the country and tested them for several compounds. They then compared those data to USDA nutritional values. The free range eggs came out on top in every category that they highlighted. However, by comparing their data to the USDA data they lost an opportunity to really make their case. I would like to have seen another sampling of eggs produced conventionally around the country. There was significant variability in the free range eggs. I would bet that conventionally produced eggs would exhibit similar variability in nutritional content. Of course, this would have doubled the cost of their study.
So I'm still left with the question, are conventional eggs really any worse for you than organic free-range eggs? According to Mother Earth News, whichdoes not qualify as an unbiased source, free-range eggs are more nutrient dense and have less fat and cholesterol in them. I would argue they have not proven this claim because they relied upon USDA data to conduct their comparison. However, let's say they are correct. Does it really matter? Should you eat fewer conventionally produced eggs vs. organic free range eggs?