Month: May 2010
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Proof That Weight Loss is Just Calories In Vs Out
Bariatric surgery is recommended by the National Institutes of Health for people with a BMI above 40. These types of procedures can include a laproscopic band that limits the amount of food that can enter the stomach or a removal of a portion of the stomach (bypass). In both cases the surgery will be effective…
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Weight Loss Diet Contradictions
We ended up with a pretty good list of weight loss diets yesterday, thanks for your contribution. So can all of the diets listed work? (of course as long as they get you to eat less calories than you burn). Are all of these complex strategies necessary?…of course not. But what about the specific mechanism…
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Popular Weight Loss Diets
In the last post we talked about the most extreme form of health promoting diet…breatharians. These are people who believe they can survive without eating at all. Of course this is not possible and these people are frauds (as any time they have been monitored closely they are caught getting food and drink). Nobody really…