So, ex-beefcake Hilary Swank blew my mind a few days ago with her easyish workout routine, and now there’s another celeb—well, celeb-by-association—with a realistic diet and fitness regimen out there.

So, I’ve been sort of leveled by a nasty cold that’s making me want to hide under the covers, watch daytime TV, and take three naps a day. It’s also impeding my ability to come up with a clever title for this story—so if that fabulous cliché didn’t give it away, I’ve got some scoop on Hilary Swank’s fitness routine.

There's a common mentality as it relates to weight loss that is probably the single-biggest reason why people are unable to reach their goal weight. I have gone through it many times over the course of my life and it is what has prevented me from being the ultimate success that I have now become.

What is this mysterious reason why weight loss fails so often?

As always keep in mind this is only one study. Although many of us suspect that cooking does do something to our foods. According to a recent science release: Researchers at the University of Warwick have found that the standard British cooking habit of boiling vegetables severely damages the anticancer properties of many Brassica vegetables (examples:  broccoli, Brussel sprouts, cauliflower and green cabbage.)

Past studies have shown that consumption of these type of vegetables decreases the risk of cancer. This is because of the high concentration of substances known as glucosinolates which are metabolized to cancer preventive substances known as isothiocyanates. However before this research it was not known how the glucosinolates and isothiocyanates were influenced by storage and cooking of Brassica vegetables.