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Lowering Body Fat: Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption (EPOC)
What do most of us want? To lose a little weight and tone up. What that really means is we want a reduction in body fat percentage. After all, “toning up” is really just skimming a little fat off the...
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Circuit Training: A More Effective Tool For Body Re-Composition
The typical person at the gym who wants to “lose a little weight and tone up” may spend a lot of time doing cardio (to burn calories) and then gets off the machine to do a bit of aimless resistance...
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Macronutrients In Every Meal
I always say that the term “healthy diet” is a political term. After all, the USDA Food Pyramid is nothing but politics. Whoever lobbies the hardest, or pumps the most research into biased...
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Your Hormones: How They Affect Your Weight (part 5: Testosterone)
Hormones are powerful things; they affect everything. Different hormones, of course, directly affect different things. Here’s what you need to know about testosterone. Testosterone, popularly known as...
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Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT): A Better Way To Manage Weight
I know I always say it: “Move more, eat less.” I wrote it plainly and simply in a previous article, How To Lose Fat which, depressingly (though not surprisingly), topped the charts for the most-viewed...
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“Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” from Robert H. Lustig, MD: A Summary
Dr. Robert H. Lustig begins with the question, “What do the Atkins diet and the Japanese diet have in common?” It’s an odd question, as the two diets seem diametrically opposed. The Atkins diet is...
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6-Pack Abs Are Expensive
…unless you’re a teenage boy, or a hard-gainer. The guy on the cover of Men’s Health Magazine is a professional model. His job is to look good, and he doesn’t look that good by cutting back on carbs...
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Diets Containing 10-20% HFCS / Sugar don’t prevent weight loss.
This was a fun read. A study published recently (August, 2012) in Nutrition Journal called “The effects of four hypocaloric diets containing different levels of sucrose or high fructose corn syrup on...
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Denise Minger vs. T. Colin Campbell — The China Study debate and take-home...
Eat food, mostly plants, not too much. – Michael Pollan I just spent the last several days reading the critique of T. Colin Campbell’s The China Study, written by Denise Minger. Earlier this week, I...
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The Food Reward Hypothesis: A Rule Of Thumb For All Successful Diets
Readers, I’m not an expert on anything (except for maybe shoestring travel in Europe). But every now and then, I hit the nail on the head without thinking. Literally, after just posting this comment...
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