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- Adrian (Team Dietitian) | The 8% Author
The 8% Newsletter
Why You Should Care About Building Muscle
Good morning! Somewhere along the way, muscle became a vanity metric. It became something you worried about if you lived at the gym, followed fitness influencers, or had a pair of shorts that needed to look particularly impressive. For everyone...
Good morning! Most of us think about body fat in terms of what you see. The number on the scale, how our jeans fit, what the mirror says back at us. But not all fat plays by the same rules,...
Wait... Prediabetes Is Reversible?
Good morning! About 2 in 5 American adults have prediabetes. Around 90% of people who have it don’t know they do because there are no clear symptoms, no dramatic warning signs, just a blood sugar number sitting in a range...
Butter, Margarine, and 60 Years of Confusion
Good morning! Few nutrition debates have flip-flopped as dramatically as butter versus margarine. Butter was demonized for decades, margarine was sold as the healthy alternative, then margarine became the villain, and now butter is having a cultural comeback while scientists...
Good morning! Mercury in fish is one of those topics that tends to generate two equally unhelpful responses: either people panic and cut out fish entirely, or they wave it off as overblown. Neither is justified by what the research...
The Most Underrated Habit for Living Longer
Good morning! When people talk about improving their health, the conversation usually revolves around diets, strength training, running, or the newest fitness trend with a name that sounds vaguely intimidating. Yet one very important habit is left out, and is...
Your Mid-Summer Heat Safety Refresher
Good morning! I hope you're settling back into your normal routine after the long holiday weekend. If there's one word that summed up this year's Fourth of July for many of us, it was simple: hot. Very, very hot. That...
Good morning! There's a common assumption that wild-caught fish is automatically the healthier choice, the same way something like an eco-friendly label gets treated as an automatic upgrade. The real comparison is more interesting than that, and it comes down...
How Menopause Increases Insulin Resistance
Good morning! There's a quiet shift that happens to a lot of women's metabolism around menopause, and almost nobody explains it clearly. Eating habits that worked fine for years start producing different results, and weight tends to land in new...