Month: March 2010
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My Check up Results Are In
A couple weeks ago I went for a check up and got a bunch of blood work done and now the results are in…so I’m going to share them with you. I got all kinds of different blood markers tested…I haven’t had a chance to look up all of them yet, but I’ll go over…
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Fitness vs Fatness…A false Dichotomy
In yesterdays discussion the common logical fallacy was brought up about the false dichotomy between “fitness” and “fatness”. This is a false dichotomy because ‘fitness’ is not the opposite of ‘fatness’…not always. To start off we have to define the logical fallacy “false dichotomy” A false dichotomy is an erroneous reduction of many possibilities down…
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Fear of Less Food? Seriously?
Cooper wrote this comment yesterday that has been ringing in my head ever since: “I had to train myself that nothing bad was going to happen to me if I just ate less!” This is a telling line about the bang up job the diet and fitness marketers have done spreading lies about the ‘dangers’…
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Eat Less For Weight Loss? – Nah, that’s impossible
“LESS” is the dirtiest 4 letter word the food industry has ever heard. When it comes to weight loss “LESS” is the only word worth hearing. Apparently Michelle Obama is waging a war on childhood obesity (it still fascinates me how the white house must declare war on everything) Of course this war will go…
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Do I look “Skinny”?
Here are some pics of me at my lightest weight in the past 15 years, I”m about 179-183lbs in these pics and my buddies rip on me for being “Skinny” or “tiny” now…Do I really look “skinny”? Guys who are trying to gain muscle make the mistake of assuming you need to be…