Author: johnbarban
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How to Use Food as Medicine
I used to have a self imposed rule of fasting during air travel. In other words, any time I was flying somewhere I would make that day a ‘fasting’ day. This seemed to make good sense as most destinations were either a conference or vacation or some other event that would likely involve all kinds…
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Flexibility is the key to Lasting Weight Loss
When you’re trying to lose weight you’ve got to eat less calories than you burn, that is the easy part, the hard part is deciding how and when you’ll eliminate some calories. In general the way you eat less calories is to either cut out some eating events, or to modify the amount of calories…
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How Many Calories In Coffee
I just got back from Starbucks and I had one of the most revealing and shocking conversations with the Barista. When I go to Starbucks I get a grande coffee misto with 1-pump of flavor shot. The flavor shot is approx 70 calories, and there is about 40-50 calories worth of milk, so overall my…
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What is a Good Food
In light of the media exposure and proclaimed “twinkie diet” that professor Mark Haub was on the good food vs bad food debate rages on. I firmly believe there is no such thing as a good or bad food if you don’t consider the dose. In other words you can achieve any lifestyle/fitness/body composition goal…
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Mark Haub’s Twinkie Weight Loss Diet Works
I just read an follow up article about Mark Haub’s (the nutrition professor from Kansas State University) who is eating mostly junk food on his weight loss diet. In summary he’s lost 27lbs in 10 weeks eating some form of junk food (mostly snack cakes you can find at convenience stores). He is now in…