Hello. Welcome to Foolish Insights. We are the Foolish Couple, Andrew and Minna, nutrition coaches and success mentors. We created FoCo Academy to guide and mentor people like you to achieve true health and healthy relationships through nutrition, exercise, mindset and lifestyle changes.

This week we are talking about simple things we can do to tweak the Chinese way of eating and cooking for better optimal health.

Yesterday we talked about cooking oils and how it can cause inflammation and a lot of health problems, and what kinds of oils you should be using to cook with. 

Today, our topic is salt.

Salt is a very simple substance and it is made up of a chemical bond of 40% sodium and 60% chloride. Sodium is a crucial electrolyte in our bodies. Many foods naturally contain small amounts of sodium, but most of the sodium in our diet comes from salt.

Sodium binds water and maintain intracellular and extracellular fluids in the right balance. It is also an...

Hello. Welcome to Foolish Insights. We are the Foolish Couple, Andrew and Minna, nutrition coaches and success mentors. We created FoCo Academy to guide and mentor people like you to achieve true health and healthy relationships through nutrition, exercise, mindset and lifestyle changes. 

Over the next few episodes, we are going to look at why Chinese food is not the healthiest and how we can make small changes to make it healthier.

You will learn how the foods you eat everyday is actually causing inflammation in your body, hurting not only your body but also your brain. Many of our foods can lead to Type 2 diabetes, or even Alzheimers.

 If you have not heard,

Alzheimers is now known as Type 3 Diabetes for the brain (Tweet this)

 Growing up, I always thought that I was one of the luckiest kids that had a stay at home mom who cooked for us every day. She is an amazing cook and she made all three meals for everyone in my family, for me, my...

Hello. Welcome to Foolish Insights. We are the Foolish Couple, Andrew and Minna, nutrition coaches and success mentors. We created FoCo Academy to guide and mentor people like you to achieve true health and healthy relationships through nutrition, exercise, mindset and lifestyle changes.

To wrap up our series on Brain...

Yesterday we talked about our second brain, our enteric nervous system in our GUT, which is why we really do have ‘gut feelings’. So how can we tell whether we are truly hungry, meaning that we are physically hungry and need to get food into our bodies, or are we just emotionally hungry?

We may be having cravings because we are sad, anxious, upset, angry, or bored.

We’ve all seen it in movies. The guy breaks up with the girl. The girl gets very upset, cries and pulls out a tub of ice cream and starts eating it. Do you think she is really, physically hungry? Or is that just emotional eating?

 How do you...

Hello. Welcome to Foolish Insights. We are the Foolish Couple, Andrew and Minna, nutrition coaches and success mentors. We created FoCo Academy to guide and mentor people like you to achieve true health and healthy relationships through nutrition, exercise, mindset and lifestyle changes. 

Continuing on with our series on Brain Health,

Today’s topic is about your 2 brains.

We eat with our brains before food even touches our lips.

Because humans evolved at a time when food was scarce, our sense organs and their processors in the brain are exquisitely attuned to the project of finding and consuming food.

What is the process of eating?

First. We see our foods. And we are more susceptible to bright colors like colorful fruits and vegetables. And companies know that, so they also make their packaging on processed foods colorful and attractive.

And then we smell the food. We tend to sniff out our foods before we actually put them...

Hello. Welcome to Foolish Insights. We are the Foolish Couple, Andrew and Minna, nutrition coaches and success mentors. We created FoCo Academy to teach and mentor people like you to achieve true health and healthy relationships through nutrition, exercise, mindset and lifestyle changes. 

Continuing on with our Brain series, Today’s topic is Yoga for Bigger Brains.

 How big is your brain?

With scientific breakthroughs in brain science, we now know that humans have the power to increase their brain size. And this can change your life in so many ways, such as increased memory.

 For example, we enjoy doing yoga, and the older we get, the more we feel the need to keep up with yoga. Yoga helps us with our flexibility, it stretches our muscles after a cardio workout or strength training, and it also calms our minds. 

Yoga combines breathing, holding postures and meditation, a trifecta that not only...

Welcome to Foolish Insights! We are the Foolish Couple, Andrew & Minna, nutrition coaches and success mentors. We created FoCo Academy to guide and mentor people like you to achieve true health and healthy relationships through nutrition, exercise, mindset and lifestyle changes. 

 For our blog this week, we're going to cover a variety of topics focused on one important part of your body: your Brain.

If you have watched our free training series "Time for Health" then you’d know that the Brain is the first thing that we talked about in our BARS system. If you have not watched it we strongly suggest that you follow the link here and get access to our video series. It is 100% free and it is full of health information and actionable steps that you can take so that you can become healthier.

Now to kick off our Brain series, let’s first talk about the universal debate between the sexes. 

Who’s smarter? Men or women?

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 Hi I’m Andrew, 

 And I ‘m Minna

We are nutrition coaches and success mentors. We created the FoCo Academy to teach and mentor people like you to achieve true health and healthy relationships through nutrition, exercise, mindset and lifestyle changes. 

 As a consultant I regularly go to client’s sites to work. Some of the workplaces in Silicon Valley have everything.

They give you breakfast, lunch and dinner, snacks in between, coke machines, energy drink machines, candies, nuts, espresso bars, everything. And then there are some offices where they only provide coffee and water.

So one time I was at this particular office where the people has been complaining about their coffee for a while and one day, while I was working at my desk, I saw a lot of the workers made their way towards their lunch room and since it wasn’t lunch time it is a little strange. But I kept on working and then I...

Hi I’m Andrew, nutrition coach and success trainer.

We created the FoCo Academy to teach and mentor people like you to achieve true health and healthy relationships through nutrition, exercise, mindset and lifestyle changes.

We are in the full swing of summer, school is out and I am sure everyone is ready to hit the beach and the pool parties.

 You may be scrambling to lose a few pounds so that you can look good in your swimsuits, so you try a new fad diet, some “super food” or some crazy “sweat till you drop” kind of work out program.

 But are you eating or exercising for YOUR particular body type?

I am not talking the apple, pear, hourglass, rectangle or what other terms people came up with to describe different body shapes. I am talking about something more scientific.

Different body types require different training and nutrition. [Tweet this]

You may have tried some exercise program your skinny friend has tried. One that she sweared...

Hello! We are the Foolish Couple. I am Andrew

And I am Minna. We are the founders of the Foco Academy and we mentor people like you to achieve true health and healthy relationships through nutrition, exercise, mindset and lifestyle changes.

Summer is finally here! And for us here in California, it means 14 hours of sunshine. So this week, we are going to talk about the 5 things you need to do right now to get Younger Looking Skin.

Now before all the ‘Men’ switch out of this video thinking this blog is for women, you are so totally, absolutely wrong.

You may not believe it, but men have skin too. We all have a face and men need to take care of their skin just like women do.

The No 1 thing to looking younger is Skincare.

Skincare is not putting on makeup. In fact, it is quite the opposite. It is about taking care of your skin so that you look younger, more attractive and more confident.

When you take care of your skin properly, it will do a few things...

Hi!  

I'm Minna and I am a Co-founder of the FOCO Academy and we mentor people like you to achieve true health and healthy relationships through nutrition, exercise, mindset and lifestyle changes.

A few years ago, I gave a lunch talk to a non-profit women’s group and the topic was called the 8 ways to infinite productivity. The methods that I talked about during that hour-long talk was really quite profound because of its simplicity and how easy it was to implement. 

So here I’m re-iterating some of the high points of that talk and to give you the highlights of what I’ve talked about. 

The 5 things that I’m going to mention here, if you are not already doing it, once you start implementing these 5 things you will notice a significant improvement in your productivity.

 And while they may sound counter intuitive, they work extremely well. So here’s the 5 ways.

No. 1, and we’ve been talking about it a lot in many of...