Dr. L. Lee Coyne

Dr. Coyne is a former Professor of exercise physiology and nutrition and the nutrition coach to many high performance athletes including several Canadian Olympic teams. (Tanya Dubnicoff, Olympic cyclist, Michelle Morton, Olympic speed skater, several Olympic Biathletes, skiers and hockey players, Jamie Clarke, Everest Summiteers) and successful "Empty Quarter" desert expedition leader.

His writing appears regularly in the Fit Start insert of the Calgary Sun and a bi-monthly health and fitness magazine “Impact”.

His books include “Fat Won’t Make You Fat”, “The Sports Nutrition Coaches Handbook” & “Nutritional Symptomatology, the consumers handbook” are accompanied by computer software programs designed to analyze the nutritional needs of clients based on client reported symptoms. These programs are extensively used throughout North America, Australia and Malaysia. These symptom oriented programs lead Dr. Coyne to be in great demand to teach Health practitioners the most effective ways to use computerized information along with his books. His most recent release is “The Little Book of Nutrition Nuggets”.

You may contact Lee through Fish Creek Publishing at 1-800-668-4042 or by e-mail dr.coyne@leanseekers.com or visit Dr. Coyne's website to purchase books and coachine online:
"Lean Seekers Nutritional Coaching Program"

Articles by Dr. L. Lee Coyne

• About Muscle - structural and functional nature of muscle. The “micro-anatomy” and the physiology of muscle is a fascinating study.
• Aspartame - NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful - safe to drink?
• Best Food - Optimal health, Weight management and Optimal Sports performance are all dependant on optimal food choices.
• Body Tips - Transforming your body so you look your best and feel your best.
• Carbohydrates - Friend or foe?
• Carbohydrate Dieting - The popularity, promotion and discussion of “low” carbohydrate dieting may be missing the point.
• Carbohydrate Eating - Chronic criticism and reluctant acceptance of reduced carbohydrate eating plans prompted this column.
• Carbohydrate Loading - Carbohydrate loading or Glycogen loading is a concept derived from research published in Sweden.
• Childhood Obesity - Incidence of adult obesity is a depressing matter and even more depressing when we look at the numbers for children.
• Children's Diet - What should my child eat? Most parents could easily make a list of what not to eat.
• Cholesterol Facts - Cholesterol is not a deadly poison, but a substance vital to the cells of all mammals.
• Cholesterol Free - Reduce the cholesterol in your diet. Reduce the fat in your diet. By L. Lee Coyne.
• Detoxification - Accumulated toxins can be responsible for many abnormal or subnormal cellular functions leading to illnesses of varying kinds.
• Diabetes Epidemic - with over 60,000 new case identified in Canada alone.
• Eating at Festivals and Fairs - Celebrations, special events, festivals are all times when we indulge in our favorite comfort foods.
• Extreme nutrition - To become an exceptional achiever you must try, do and practice exceptional things. Average, standard, typical, and “normal” practices produce average, standard, typical, and “normal” results. By L. Lee Coyne, Ph.D.
• Fad Diets - Fad Diets or Popular Eating Plans? This is a brief review of several popular diet plans.
• Fat Burning - There is a concept of a “fat burning zone”.
• Halloween Food Hazards - Gone are the days when the “Treat” part of “Trick or Treat” was an apple, home-made baking or bag of popcorn. By L. Lee Coyne Ph.D.
• Healthy Bones - More women will die from complications of osteoporosis than from breast cancer,cervical cancer, and heart disease combined.
• Healthy Immunity - Without an immune system, we die.
• Hiking - A favourite fat burning summer activity, suitable for all age
• Holiday Food - To avoid the January panic of trying to lose those unpleasant kilograms before the winter holiday bikini season in warmer places try to spend December eating with grace.
• Hyponatremia - a growing number of athletes requiring emergency medical tent attention following endurance events have been diagnosed with over hydration (also known as ‘water intoxication’ or the medical term ‘hyponatremia’).
• Immune System - In a perfect world all the nutrients required for optimum immune defenses would come from food.
• Insulin Riddle - Fundamentally, the standard Canadian diet can be summarized as Carbohydrate Hell creating Insulin Disasters.
• Lack of Exercise - The eating plan is the most significant piece of the puzzle that will create a fat burning metabolism.
• Muscle Recovery - Research over the last 10 years has demonstrated the benefits of becoming “active” in post-exercise nutritional choices to optimize muscle recovery.
• Obesity - The Oldest Metabolic Disorder. Obesity has reached epidemic proportions worldwide. Recent estimates, by the World Health Organization and by the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, indicate that the incidence of obesity is doubling every five years.
• Obesity Solutions – More than Exercise and Calories. Talking about obesity has many similarities to talking about the weather. “Everybody talks about it – nobody does anything about” is how the old saying goes.
• Physical Activity - excessive time devoted to television viewing, video games, and web surfing  is making are kid fat.
• Postpartum Weight Loss - 45% of postpartum women weighed in at 10 pounds heavier than pre pregnancy weights one year after delivery.
• Prevention - Canadian Diabetes Association data shows 60,000 new cases of Diabetes reported each year in Canada, one every 8 minutes.
• Protein Requirements - Human dietary protein requirements have long been a point of controversy among nutrition experts.
• Sports Drinks - Consumer guidelines for selecting a “traditional” sport drink, based on research, suggest that one look for an 8% Carbohydrate solution (approximately 26 gm per 250 ml of water).
• Sports Eating - When it comes to nutritional advice for sport and exercise there is always some new "magic bullet" product or plan designed to help you become the next super athlete.
• Triple Threat - October is the “triple threat” month where responsible eating can be challenged on at least 3 occasions.
• Vegetarian Teens - The pressures on teens choosing a vegetarian lifestyle are varied. The “peer-group” promoting the morality of meatless nutrition and ethical treatment of animals, there is the ever pressing quest to avoid fat, to be fashionably thin and the concern of parents for the health of their children.
• Weight Loss - So, Why Am I Not Losing Weight?
• Weight Management 101 - Weight management is the gentle term indicating a desire to achieve and maintain a healthy (desirable) body weight.

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