Author: johnbarban

  • We all Need Social Support to Get in Shape

    We all Need Social Support to Get in Shape

    When you’re facing the challenge of changing your body, developing muscle and losing bodyfat you have likely accepted the idea that you must exert your will over your body. For example you have to lift weights to force your muscles to grow, and you have to consciously lower the number of calories you are eating…

  • Foods you are “Allowed” to Eat

    Foods you are “Allowed” to Eat

    I was recently browsing some diet/health headlines…in one of the opening blurbs to a post I read the following words “vegetables that are ALLOWED on this diet…” Allowed? When was the last time you were in a position to have an allowance? Maybe when you were 8 year old. The idea of having things that…

  • Waddle Waddle

    Waddle Waddle

    I just got back from Las Vegas and it never ceases to amaze me how large a human body can get until I walk past someone who appears to be well in excess of 300lbs. One of the things that starts to become apparent is that morbidly obese people don’t walk as much as they…

  • Biology vs Society

    Biology vs Society

    It’s becoming apparent that many of our society norms or the ‘mores’ that we come to accept as normal might not add up to what our bodies are built to think is normal. In modern western societies the availability and amount of food we’ve come to accept as normal is actually causing a health crisis.…

  • Sendentary Lifestyle is Worse than You Think

    Sendentary Lifestyle is Worse than You Think

    Many of the lifestyle and dietary problems the western world is faced with are because of a miserably sedentary lifestyle. The north american condition of doing almost no physical activity and eating an excess of calorie dense food is the reason so many people are overweight, chronically inflamed and dying prematurely from lifestyle disorders like…