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Wild Planet: 2016 CrossFit Games Special Edition-CFSB Wellness Wednesday In this special 2016 CrossFit Games edition of Wellness Wednesday, I interview Karen of Wild Planet seafood. Wild Planet is one of the best companies out there for sustainably caught fish and seafood. Seafood is one the healthiest proteins we can consume and most of us don't get enough of it. Wild planet products are: -Cost effective -Sustainably Caught -Super Healthy -Very Portable and Shelf Stable I don't get any money from their company, I just happen to like their products and their mission. Next time you're looking for a good protein snack check out Wild Planet products.

Carrie's Story-What's life like 1 year after a Whole30?-CFSB Wellness Wednesday Almost exactly a year ago we published Carrie's story about her recent experience with her first Whole30. If you didn't originally get a chance to read that, you can check it out here: http://crossfitsouthbend.com/carries-story/ In this video we wanted to see how Carrie was doing health-wise one year after her first Whole30. The headline: she's doing great and she and her family are eating this way the majority of the time while still occasionally having treats for special occasions. Remember, eating healthy is not about doing a 30-day cleanse, diet, or fad and then returning to bad eating habits for the rest of the year, even if it's the Whole30.  Eating healthy is about making a long-term lifestyle change where one chooses to eat healthy food the vast majority of the time while avoiding unhealthy food unless it's a special occasion. Carrie's a great example of that mentality. Congrats on sticking with it Carrie, and keep up the great work!! Are you looking to looking to lose weight, be healthy again, and kick ass at life? Schedule a free 30-min one-on-one nutrition consultation with CFSB Head Nutrition Coach Robby Gustin to see how our nutrition programs can help you achieve those goals. Click here to sign up: https://crossfitsouthbend.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?appointmentType=928667  

The New Nutrition Facts Label-What You Need to Know-CFSB Wellness Wednesday In this video I talk about the recent changes to the nutrition facts label. While there are a number of changes to the new nutrition facts label, some of which are good but very long overdue, it's still not the most important thing to pay attention on the back of a food. The most important thing to pay attention to on a food label is the ingredient list not the nutrition facts. Another way to put this, which I have emphasized over and over with our Wellness Wednesday videos is that food quality matters far more than food quantity. Food quantity is still important but not nearly as much as food quality. Furthermore, the healthiest foods typically don't have ingredient labels or nutrition facts at all. In my very first Wellness Wednesday video on how to read an ingredient label I said that the ingredient label was far more important from a health perspective than the nutrition facts label. A year later even with the new nutrition facts label I 100% stick by that claim. If you're interested you can watch that very first video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvZFnrZNDYU&index=1&list=PLRX7liyY7_etqqMdnRupipZgxCn-xdTFx

Why Would Someone Hire a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® Practitioner?-CFSB Wellness Wednesday In last month's installment of "What is Functional Diagnostic Nutrition®?" we announced the availability of Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® services here at CrossFit South Bend, and how Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® differs from conventional medicine. In this second installment we explain why someone might hire a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® practitioner. There are many reasons why one might do so, but we discuss 5 reasons in particular.

1. You're eating well, you're exercising, you're sleeping well, but you still don't feel your best, you still have symptoms, or you're still dealing with a chronic health condition.
2. You're going with through the cycle of trial and error with supplements to try to fix your symptoms. "Oh I'm taking licorice root for my 2pm slump, I'm taking fish oil for my inflammation, I'm taking antacids for my heartburn, and melatonin to go to sleep." A normal healthy functioning human being does not need all these things to control symptoms.
3. You don't feel well or you still have symptoms even though your doctor says your blood work is "normal".
4. You understand that there is no such thing as a "normal" symptom.
5. You want to fix the root cause of your health issues not just the symptoms.

Is it possible to have restaurant quality food at home -that is almost fool-proof to cook? -that is ridiculously simple to prepare? -that you can leave cooking in the morning while you're at work, and then when you get back home it's ready? The answer is yes. It's called sous-vide cooking. It allows you to cook all of your food to the exact right temperature, and it's basically fool-proof. If you have don't have a lot of time to cook, if you have a big family to feed, or if you're looking to turn cheap cuts of meat like chuck roasts and pork roasts into something amazingly delicious you might want to look into sous vide cooking. For more details on sous-vide cooking check out the following article: http://www.seriouseats.com/2016/01/first-thing-to-cook-with-sous-vide-immersion-circulator-essential-recipes.html DISCLAIMER: I don't get any money from any sous vide company to talk about sous vide. There are lots of different sous vide devices and I'm not endorsing any particular one.

What is Functional Diagnostic Nutrition®?-CFSB Wellness Wednesday Over the past year, I've been pursuing my Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® certification, and I'm very happy to say that we now officially offer Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® services here at CrossFit South Bend! What is Functional Diagnostic Nutrition®? Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® is a type of detective work that seeks to identify the underlying causes of disease instead of treating symptoms. Using functional lab work, we identify healing opportunities and engage each client in a health building process using the potent, proven, professional protocols in our D.R.E.S.S. for Health Success® program. This includes Diet, Rest, Exercise, Stress Reduction, and Supplements. This natural, holistic approach yields the highest level of positive clinical outcomes. We don’t medicate, we educate! Over the coming weeks and months, we'll be introducing you to the different ways that Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® can help you get back to the point where you're kicking ass at life (i.e., optimal health), as I put it in a previous video. In this week's video, we're talking about the difference between conventional medicine and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition®. We explain how, for acute conditions, conventional medicine is the absolute best approach. However, we'll also talk about how conventional medicine tends to not do so well at dealing with long term chronic health issues. Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® excels, in a way in which conventional medicine does not, at restoring your body to optimal health.

In this video we ask the question "Are you kicking ass at life or is life kicking your ass?" The essential point of the video is that the standard medical definition of health as "no symptoms or not sick" is a bad one. Most of us don't just want to survive life and go through the motions. We want to thrive. Optimal health is not just lack of symptoms or a lack of disease. Instead, it's kicking ass at life. Your energy, mood, sleep, and recovery from workouts shouldn't just be okay. They should be great, if you're optimally healthy. Of course, we all have times in our lives where stressors have the upper hand. However, that shouldn't be the norm. A normal healthy functioning human being shouldn't just have so-so sleep or energy. Instead their sleep and their energy are great. On the other hand, if you don't feel like your energy, mood, libido, recovery from workouts, etc. is great and/or you're having symptoms that's a sure sign that something has gone wrong with your health. When it comes to health, your birthright is to kick ass at life. Don't settle for less.