Author: johnbarban
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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…
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How Many Calories Do You Burn In a Day?
After reading yesterdays comments I’m getting the impression that many people assume we can burn more calories in a day that we really do. For most of the population our BMR/RMR accounts for almost all of their calories burned in a given day. BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate; the amount of calories you burn lying down…
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Target Protein, Target Calories?
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about specific dietary protein content for muscle building as well as specific daily calories for weight loss. I usually answer with a general range of what is most likely going to be adequate. This however never seems to be a good enough answer. It seems that many people…
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Measuring Health
The health/fitness/weight loss/healthy lifestyle/wellness blah blah whatever you want to call it industry sells the concept of ‘healthy’ or a better life, or some kind of undefinable state of being as the prize and the goal. Words like vitality, energy, vigor, wellness and the like are used…what a load of BS…look at those words, they’re…
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Anabolic Sensitivity
I was having a conversation with a friend of mine who is currently using steroids and he said something very interesting. I was mentioning the difference between gaining muscle with and without steroids and how difficult it is to gain without steroids and he said “I’m giving up on trying to get any bigger as…