Author: johnbarban

  • Health and Fitness Information – What is it Good For?

    Health and Fitness Information – What is it Good For?

    Why do you suppose anyone reads about health and fitness? My guess is that they want to improve both their health and fitness (kind of obvious I know) But there has to be a point where you simply cannot continue to make measurable improvements…or at least there will be a point where more information, more…

  • What If Food Didn’t Affect Weight or Health?

    What If Food Didn’t Affect Weight or Health?

    Simple mental exercise for you today. What would you eat if you knew the food choices you made wouldn’t adversely affect your weight or your health? I’ll start: I would eat just about everything I am currently eating. John

  • Is Liposuction “Cheating”?

    Is Liposuction “Cheating”?

    I heard a story the other day about a bodybuilder who allegedly (I cannot confirm this) gets a bit of liposuction done before a bodybuilding show just to make sure he’s as ripped as possible. The other bodybuilders consider this ‘cheating’ because it’s ‘not fair’. Now I don’t know if this is just a story…

  • What is the Best Ratio Of Protein Carbs and Fat?

    What is the Best Ratio Of Protein Carbs and Fat?

    Most weight loss diets will usually give some sort of recommendation of the preferred or optimal protein carb and fat ratio based on the effect is supposedly has on your hormone balance and the way your body digests the food, how it will make you feel yadda yadda. But what gets left out of the…

  • Processed vs Natural Foods

    Processed vs Natural Foods

    Yesterdays exercise produced some similar themes, one of them was the idea that ‘processed’ foods were generally regarded as bad and ‘natural’ foods were generally regarded as good. So can anyone define ‘processed’ for me and what part of the processing makes a food ‘bad’? What process are you talking about? what exactly happens to…