Vinnie Tortorich

Fitness Confidential Podcast

Fast Food, Obesity, Documentaries and Fat Head with Tom Naughton

by Vinnie Tortorich

Apr032015

Welcome to the Friday One-On-One show with Vinnie Tortorich.  Today’s guest is Tom Naughton who directed and starred in the movie, Fathead.  The movie questions the claim in the movie Super Size Me that fast food is responsible for the rampant obesity in this country.  Listen and learn…

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TOM’S THOUGHTS ON SUPER SIZE ME

  • He thinks Morgan Spurlock, director of Super Size Me, and the movie itself are very entertaining
  • It’s obviously a setup
  • The nutritionist in the movie berates Spurlock for eating 5000 calories a day
  • We never saw his food log.  You would have to eat fast food and extra food

THE GOVERNMENTS ROLE

  • Government should not be in food business or diet recommendation business
  • The government will throw millions of dollars behind wheat, soy and corn
  • They have GMO in their back pocket

VEGANS

  • Tom agrees with Vinnie that it really isn’t good for your health
  • Vegan’s health improves because along with giving up meat, they also give up sugar, white bread, processed foods and probably alcohol.  They give up a lot of poor habits
  • Ethical reasons for going Vegan are another story
  • Initial weight loss is also related to cleaning up your diet

BEING CARB-PHOBIC

  • Unnecessary…rice used to be a side dish and pasta used to be a side dish
  • Today at  home and in restaurants, carbs like rice and pasta are the main dish
  • 70 years ago, the focus was not on “no carbs”, it was on balance…don’t eat too many starches
  • In the 40’s, the recommended starch per day was 2 servings….like one piece of bread or one potato.
  • Today the food pyramid suggests 11 servings

 

The Truth About Vitamin C

by Vinnie Tortorich

Apr012015

Welcome back to the Wednesday edition of the show with Andy Schreiber.  Today, Vinnie and Andy discuss Vitamin C and rude people who shoot guns……

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VITAMIN C

  • Too much is not good or helpful
  • There is a limit to how much the body can absorb..the rest is eliminated
  • There is evidence that is can help shorten a cold and relieve the symptoms
  • You only need about 200mg/day

The NSNG Los Angeles Meetup

by Vinnie Tortorich

Mar302015

Today’s podcast is a first.  This weekend was the first annual NSNG L.A. Meetup…the weather was perfect, the fans came from all around the country and the weekend was a blast.  Part of this amazing weekend was podcast the included everyone who showed up.  Read on for a taste of the forum and listen in to hear the whole crazy podcast.  Enjoy!  (And a special shout out to all my  hiking buddies – so amazing to meet all of you!)

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FIRST ANNUAL NSNG L.A. MEET UP

  • The whole thing started on the NSNG Facebook group
  • Then Trey Beauchamp started the NSNG L.A. Meetup Group
  • The idea took off!
  • Fans came from all over the country

CARLOS DONES

  • Started listening to podcast and listened to book
  • Signed up for Iron Man
  • Met Vinnie when he contacted him about bike fitting
  • Doing 170 miles across Grand Canyon
  • Goal is to do it NSNG with help from Vinnie

MO FEHN

  •  Special relationship…Super Fan
  • Told her son Parker that for her birthday she wanted to go to Johnny’s  and have a Pastrami sandwich be a use Vinnie said so
  • Parker took her and when she walked into restaurant…Vinnie was right behind her

 

 

Nutrition, Carbs and Training for a Marathon

by Vinnie Tortorich

Mar282015

Welcome to our Saturday show where Vinnie goes one-on-one with a listener and answers their questions on air.  Today’s guest listener is Phoenix Lam and she has been NSNG for over a year.

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PHOENIX SHARES WHAT A DAY OF NSNG LOOKS LIKE

  • Breakfast can be eggs, bacon or sausage or maybe chia seed pudding with nuts and seeds
  • Morning snack at work can be fruit and greek yogurt or some meat and cheese
  • Lunch will be a meat and veggie and sometimes rice on the side
  • If she has an afternoon snack, almond butter with an apple
  • Dinner will be protein with veggies

IS IT EFFECTIVE TO WORK OUT BEFORE YOU EAT?

  • There’s no reason to work out without eating
  • Cyclists sometimes do it before a race to lose weight
  • More effective to eat and get your metabolism moving
  • Exercise is a poor way to lose weight…you are going to have to replace calories you burned

WHEN YOUR ARE INTERVAL/ANAEROBIC EXERCISING, CAN YOU EAT MORE CARBS?

  • It is also ok to up your carbs especially if you are training for an event
  • Get the carbs from veggies first, then fruit
  • Ok to have a carb like a potato…but keep track.  If you start craving sugar…pull back

Plant Trainers, Depression and PTSD

by Vinnie Tortorich

Mar272015

Today’s One-on-One is with Shoshana Chaim.  Shosh and her husband, Adam, are co-f0unders of Plant Trainers which advocates a plant-based lifestyle.  Today they discuss mental health…depression and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

  • Traumatic stress event began at the beginning of Shosh’s second pregnancy when she found out that Adam had a tumor
  • Went to hypnotist to help her with crippling anxiety and depression
  • Was told she had PTSD
  • Hypnotist had her go back 5 years to when trauma started

ANGER AND WOMEN

  • Have to find source of stress and figure out how to resolve it
  • Hard on marriage
  • Shosh found herself being mean to Adam when she is normally quite passive
  • Women need to be strong and stick together

IS IT OK TO GO ON MEDICATION

  • Shosh realized she needed to go on meds to be emotionally healthy
  • She does want to find more natural ways and eventually decrease or go off meds
  • Alternative medicine, such as acupuncture can help

THE TRUTH ABOUT CALCIUM

by Vinnie Tortorich

Mar252015

It’s Wednesday and that means that Andy Schreiber is in the house…Vinnie and Andy discuss this coming weekend which is the First Annual NSNG Meetup.  They also discuss calcium…it’s benefits, what foods have it and different forms of calcium supplementation.

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FIRST ANNUAL NSNG L.A. MEETUP 

  • This weekend, March 27 – 29th
  • Between 13-15 people are flying in from all over the country
  • Some of the events scheduled for this weekend and what to expect

CALCIUM – WHAT’S THE TRUTH

  • It’s needed   in diet and supplementation because the body does not produce it’s own calcium
  • Primarily found in dairy and also in darker, green leafy vegetables like kale
  • One form is calcium carbonate which can cause stomach upset
  • The other form is calcium citrate which has been shown to be more bioavailable