Author: johnbarban
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Fitness vs Fatness…A false Dichotomy
In yesterdays discussion the common logical fallacy was brought up about the false dichotomy between “fitness” and “fatness”. This is a false dichotomy because ‘fitness’ is not the opposite of ‘fatness’…not always. To start off we have to define the logical fallacy “false dichotomy” A false dichotomy is an erroneous reduction of many possibilities down…
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Fear of Less Food? Seriously?
Cooper wrote this comment yesterday that has been ringing in my head ever since: “I had to train myself that nothing bad was going to happen to me if I just ate less!” This is a telling line about the bang up job the diet and fitness marketers have done spreading lies about the ‘dangers’…
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Eat Less For Weight Loss? – Nah, that’s impossible
“LESS” is the dirtiest 4 letter word the food industry has ever heard. When it comes to weight loss “LESS” is the only word worth hearing. Apparently Michelle Obama is waging a war on childhood obesity (it still fascinates me how the white house must declare war on everything) Of course this war will go…
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Do I look “Skinny”?
Here are some pics of me at my lightest weight in the past 15 years, I”m about 179-183lbs in these pics and my buddies rip on me for being “Skinny” or “tiny” now…Do I really look “skinny”? Guys who are trying to gain muscle make the mistake of assuming you need to be…
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The MEME of the Modern Man
I’m bumping this post this morning. I’ll be back in a few hours with a new post. Working off of yesterdays discussion about the emasculation of the modern man it seems appropriate to bring up the concept of meme’s and specifically the meme of the modern man. First we need to define what a meme…