Month: February 2010
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Eating Late at Night Causes You to Gain Fat?
The Claim: Eating late at night causes you to gain fat. Answer: FACTOID Gaining weight is simply a matter of eating excess calories. WHEN you eat those calories is irrelevant. But there is a persistent myth that eating late at night somehow causes you to store more fat that eating earlier in the day. There…
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Weight Loss and Fitness Facts vs Factoids
The health/fitness and diet industry is based almost completely on factoids and half truths. Today I’m issuing you a test to see if you can tell fact from fiction. But first we have to define what a ‘factoid’ is. A factoid is a questionable or spurious—unverified, incorrect, or fabricated—statement formed and asserted as a fact, but with…
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Nutrition Education – Won’t Help You Lose Weight
On yesterdays post James mentioned that he might want to go to college to study nutrition because he enjoys learning about it. The important thing James said was that he “enjoys learning about it”. This is probably the only reason to ever study nutrition. As of 2010 north american (and most industrialized countries) are experiencing…
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Good Food vs Bad Food
As you may or may not know I don’t believe there is such thing as a good food or a bad food…As far as I’m concerned there is just food. When I make this sort of statement the common reaction I get is something like this: “surely it’s not healthy to eat candy all day…