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Citrus fruits get all the credit for vitamin C, but red peppers are actually the best source. Vitamin C may be best known for skin and immunity benefits. Researchers in the United Kingdom looked at vitamin C intake in 4,025 women and found that those who ate more had less wrinkling and dryness. And although getting enough vitamin C won’t prevent you from catching a cold or flu, studies show that it could help you recover faster.

Vitamin C has other important credentials too. Finnish researchers found that men with low levels were 2.4 times likelier to have a stroke, and Australian scientists recently discovered that the antioxidant reduces knee pain by protecting your knees against arthritis.

Here is an Exert from Barry Sears Book Toxic Fat.  Stay tuned as my full review of the book will be going up on Fit4youNutrition.com shortly.

In the past, vegetable seed oils were very expensive to produce.  Throughout history most fats came from lard, butter, or olive oil.  None of these traditional fats had much impact on inflammation because they contain very limited amounts of omega-6 fatty acids.  However, by the 1920s the industrial processing of vegetable seeds, such as soybeans and corn (basically using gasoline as an extracting solvent), began to make vegetable oil production much less expensive.  And those vegetable oils (primarily corn and soybean) are rich in certain types of polyunsaturated fatty acids known as omega-6 fatty acids-which are the building blocks for the potential production of increased amounts of toxic fat.  However, it is only when you begin to mix excess insulin (coming from cheap carbohydrates) with excess omega-6 fatty acids (coming from cheap vegetable oils) that you get increased production of toxic fat.

While neither cheap carbohydrates nor cheap vegetable oils alone were sufficient to make the current epidemic of inflammation possible, combining them in processed foods was like adding a lighted match to a vat of gasoline.  All grains and starches are composed of pure glucose held together by very weak chemical bonds that are rapidly broken during digestion. The released glucose rapidly enters the bloodstream to cause the release of the hormone insulin.  Increasing levels of insulin drive omega-6 fatty acids from vegetable oils to make more arachiconic acid (toxic fat)-the building block for incredibly powerful inflammatory hormones known as eicosanoids.  In other words, bad things begin to happen.

Wrote this for Robb so figured I’d share it with all you as well!

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The key to healthier garlic: Crush the cloves, and let them stand for up to 30 minutes before heating them, which activates and preserves the heart-protecting compounds, according to a 2007 study from Argentina.

So after getting beat up by Kelly Starrett all weak (crazy good sports rehab physio who owns crossfit sanfransisco) and having drunk legs from a complete realignment of my hips and an entire right arm and neck that felt like one big bruise, we went for maxes mock competition style today.  61kg, 65kg snatch (67attempt ended up being 2 beautiful high pulls but what I was happy with was 15kg-65kgs were all bang on without a wobble (consistency has been my biggest problem).

Clean and Jerks, did 80 (missed the jerk out of pure laziness so went up anyway), 83kg Clean and Jerk (probably the nicest Jerk I have ever done and a new max but then we called it a day to end on a high note!  The cool thing about it was how nice the 83kg jerk felt. I have never actually felt the power transfer through my legs like that and I landed it so solidly that there was no question I was standing up with it (and I was still in the center of the plat form   Amazing what going in straight lines does

Assuming there are no other car accidents to get in my way and my neck stops keeping me up at night, should be looking to do 67/85 at bad girl open next month…