Author: johnbarban
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Overeating Anything Is Bad – The Devil is in the Dose
If you browse around the cyber-inter-web-o-sphere and look around for ‘healthy nutrition’ information you’ll likely find a big list of “items to avoid”. Here are some of the common ones I can think of off the top of my head: Saturated Fat Trans Fat Sugar Artificial Sweeteners Genetically Modified Anything (which is ridiculous considering about…
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Exercise for Weight Loss
This is a message I just got from a friend of mine which pretty much sums up the reason exercise can’t do much for weight loss unless you’re really watching your calories: “30 minutes of very high intensity boxing– dripping sweat, almost puked: probaby burned 400 calories, tops Large Powerade slush from Sonic to recover…
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Can You Be Fat and Fit?
I was browsing some headlines on the interwebs today and I found an interesting report about a study about fatness vs fitness and risk of high blood pressure. In general the study showed that fatness was linked to high blood pressure even if those people scored well on ‘fitness’ tests. The more interesting part was…
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Weight Loss Sabotage
If you’ve decided to lose weight and announced this decision to various friends and family you’ve likely been faced with mixed reactions. This is because the idea of weight loss hits at a very deep emotional level for just about everyone. This is because it’s a conscious decision to change your body. Which could also…
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Losing Muscle as You Age – How to Stop It
Still on the lines of our hormone theme is the question of what causes age related muscle atrophy (also known as sarcopenia), this is a question Jackson had. Basically there are two things going on with age related muscle loss. 1) Lack of use 2) Lower anabolic hormone levels as we age There hasn’t really…