Author: johnbarban
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Real Weight Loss Is Simple, Nutritionism Is Complicated.
Dieting for weight loss is the simplest thing you could ever do. Just eat less, however the fitness marketing world tries to complicate the issue. Consumers also appreciate complicated stories because it gives them an endless list of excuses to explain away their inability to lose weight. Some one made a comment the other day…
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Nutritionism – Living in the ‘what if’ instead of the ‘what is’
If you do any recreational reading of nutrition info and nutrition marketing you’ve likely read a lot of ‘what if’ stories. ‘What if’ stories are things like: What happens if I eat all my daily calories from carbs or What happens if I don’t eat enough protein today or What happens if I don’t eat…
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Anabolic Continuum – Where Are You?
Have you ever wondered why some people react differently to the same workout. Some people gain more muscle than others, some seems to have greater gains in strength than others. The typical answer is simply ‘genetics’. But this is too simplistic of an answer and I think there is much more to it than this.…
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Do You Really Want To Stand Out?
I get a lot of questions about weight loss. Most of the questions don’t make much sense because the people who are asking are making a fundamental error in their thinking and that is: They all think they’re different from everyone else. They think weight loss in their specific case is much harder and that…
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Less Food Doesn’t Mean Not Enough Food
A friend of mine sent me a link to a picture of a t-shirt with the words ‘Eat Less’ on the shirt. This picture was posted on a popular news/blog website and the comments section had many people suggesting that they didn’t like the t-shirt because they felt it promoted eating disorders. This of course…