Author: johnbarban
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Muscle vs Fat
The shape of your body is largely determined by your muscle mass, however that is assuming that you don’t have an excess of body fat distorting you true shape. The point of working out with weights is to manipulate your muscle mass to augment your look. Having fat covering all of those muscles makes your…
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Feast or Famine
When it comes to dieting I’ve noticed an odd trend with some people. It seems to be a mentality of feast or famine, let me explain. Do you or someone you know approach the day from the standpoint that if you’re going to eat ‘good’ or on your diet for the day then you can’t…
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The Top 10 Nutrition Rules so far
Thank you for your input yesterday, I think I’ve got a handle on the biggest nutrition ‘rules’ that need to be investigated in the new book. There was an obvious theme and here are the big ones that I will cover: 1. Eating Breakfast to ‘rev up’ metabolism 2. Eating frequently throughout the day to…
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Top 10 Weight Loss Diet Rules
I’m in the middle of writing my new diet book and I need your help with one of the sections. I want to review the validity and research of the most common diet ‘rules’ that you hear about it in the popular diet and weight loss media including magazines, television and online. I’ve got a…
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Weight Loss is Simple…but not Easy
Weight loss is simple…but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. A caloric deficit (no matter how you arrive at it) is all you need to lose weight. Achieving a caloric deficit seems to be difficult for many people for a host of reasons including emotional control, social eating, the routine of eating at a specific time…