General Nutrition

Without a doubt, your diet has a monumentally larger effect on your health and physique than your exercise program. I am NOT a certified nutritionist, by the way. That needs to be said.

My experience with nutrition started out somewhat incidentally. I was a biology major in college, and then had to review general nutrition for my fitness certifications.

When I started teaching, I realized that on almost a daily basis I was being asked how to lose weight. I figured I could find a good book to refer my students to when they asked, but I couldn't find anything that I could really get behind. I was looking for something short and sweet, something that gave you the underlying principles of sound nutrition and at the same time wasn't a bitch to read.

After a whole lot of research and guidance (from two certified nutritionists, a doctor, and a slew of fitness professionals), I published a book called Your Fat. The book is intended to give you the basics of general nutrition and show how the way you deal with food affects the way your body utilizes fat.

You can read more about the book here or on its official website.