Author: johnbarban
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Do Calories Matter with food and exercise
The diet industry is full of misinformation, logical fallacies, half truths and hypocritical arguments. One of the worst is the concept that calories don’t matter in food but they do matter in the gym. There are many diet philosophies that try to ignore the basic principle of weight loss being calories in vs calories out.…
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Evil Foods are nothing New
So we’ve all heard about the potential problem too much sugar can cause, and even too much carbohydrates in general regardless of it’s in the form of pure sugar. And of course saturated and trans fats are also bad. It’s true that too much carbohydrate and sugar can cause measurable problems like advanced glycation end…
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Fear of Food
Just got back from a great weekend in Florida. Met up with some great people, ate big and saw a great football game…ok it was a bit of a blowout but the good guys won (go gators!) At the tailgate we crushed some serious food…biscuits with sausage gravy, beef short ribs, sausages, burgers, bacon, eggs,…
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Inflammation from Toxic Calorie Levels
The concept of eating healthy or eating ‘clean’ (I hate that term) usually focuses on specific food types and rarely mentions food quantity. This is a fundamental mistake in reasoning as it can be clearly shown that adverse health events can be caused by simply eating too many calories (no matter what the food source).…
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Eat Low Calorie When It’s Easiest
I was at a conference this weekend in Austin Texas…did a lot of networking, lots of learning, some drinking, and some good eating. I experienced real Texas BBQ (brisket, pork and beef ribs)…and my first chicken fried chicken (it was a toss up between this and chicken fried steak) One thing I can say for…