Eggs: bring on the superfood (Decomposing Omegy)

Hello fitorriors!

I hope you're having an eggcellent day. If not, don't worry! I'm going to brighten it up with this article about eggs (egg puns included - don't you just love puns?).

There's a reason the egg is part of Omegy's name and appearance.

Egg facts and nutrition

I just want to say something before we begin. Eggs are one of the best foods you can eat. Just make sure they come from a good source (like pasture-raised free-range chickens). It's not a coincidence the title has the word "superfood" in it. While every food should be carefully considered to fit one's dietary needs, I consider the egg to be a necessary part of any healthy diet. 

Stop throwing away the yolk and start eating it
Although it has been demonized as an artery-clogging, cholesterol-ridden food, eggs are not the enemy of your heart. Quite the contrary.  

Eggs contain a lot of cholesterol compared to other foods (up to 200 mg of cholesterol). All that cholesterol is going to...do absolutely nothing to your blood cholesterol levels. And neither is all the fat (especially the saturated fat) going to affect your blood lipid levels. It's more complicated than eat cholesterol and/or fat - get atherosclerosis and/or fat. 

Omega-3 fatty acids and their importance (Decomposing Omegy)

** This post is written in both English and Romanian.

** Această postare este scrisă atât în engleză, cât şi în română.

Let’s get started: as you can see from the title – this post is about Omega-3 fatty acids (just Omega-3’s from now) and their importance in human health.

What are Omega-3’s ?

Omega-3 fatty acids refer to a group of three fats called ALA, EPA and DHA.

PLUS: There are actually 11 known types of Omega-3’s.The ones mentioned are the ones studied the most.

They are considered essential fatty acids (EFA) – meaning that you can’t make them in your body but you certainly need them in order to survive – therefore you must get them from your diet.

PLUS: Actually, mammals have a limited capacity to make EPA and DHA (both longer chained omega-3’s) from ALA (shorter chain Omega-3). Fish are much more efficient in forming these more complex forms of Omega-3’s.

Avocado - The Perfect Fruit (Decomposing Omegy)

** This post is written in both English and Romanian.

** Această postare este scrisă atât în engleză, cât şi în română.

Hi guys !!

We are beginning today the actual decomposing of our little Omegy! 

As we've said in this previous post, we are going to explain to you why Omegy is the way it is. (Wow, that one could get really philosophical).

Our mascot is half-egg, half-avocado (I know... we have a lot of imagination) and today we'll look at why we've chosen him to have an avocado half.

What is an Avocado ?

Avocado is a fruit that grows on a tree - and it actually can be classified as a single-seeded berry. Native to Central America, it grows in a tropical and subtropical climate. 

PLUS: Its history goes back a very long time ago (50 million years)  and some people think that it may have been food for dinosaurs. Between when the dinosaurs died out and before humans evolved to the point where they started to cultivate avocados, it remains a mystery how this strange fruit continued to survive with no big mammal to spread its seed around.

Hi everybody!

Welcome to Fitorium. Now...you may be wondering what “Fitorium” is? Some of you might have guessed from the “Fit” part of the word that this is a fitness blog. Well, not just a fitness blog, more a wellness blog in which we’re going to talk about many things ranging from nutrition to fitness and health, with a dash of psychology, physiology and other human-related sciences thrown in to spice things up. 
                                                                  

Before we get started, let’s get to know each other: we’re Alma and Alex.