Author: johnbarban

  • Metabolic rate is determined by Fat Free Mass

    The Claim: Your metabolic rate is determined by your fat free mass Answer: FACT Your metabolic rate is most closely correlated with your fat free mass (lean body mass). Your fat free mass is all the parts of your body that aren’t fat (rather obvious explanation)…this includes organs, bones, skeletal muscles and extracellular water. The…

  • Eating Late at Night Causes You to Gain Fat?

    The Claim: Eating late at night causes you to gain fat. Answer: FACTOID Gaining weight is simply a matter of eating excess calories. WHEN you eat those calories is irrelevant. But there is a persistent myth that eating late at night somehow causes you to store more fat that eating earlier in the day. There…

  • Breakfast – the Most Important Meal of the Day?

    The Claim: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and kickstarts your metabolism. If you skip breakfast you’ll overeat at the end of the day and you won’t perform as well at work/school. Answer: FACTOID Eating breakfast has no special effect on your metabolism or metabolic rate as it were. If you like…

  • Weight Loss and Fitness Facts vs Factoids

    Weight Loss and Fitness Facts vs Factoids

    The health/fitness and diet industry is based almost completely on factoids and half truths. Today I’m issuing you a test to see if you can tell fact from fiction. But first we have to define what a ‘factoid’ is. A factoid is a questionable or spurious—unverified, incorrect, or fabricated—statement formed and asserted as a fact, but with…

  • Nutrition Education – Won’t Help You Lose Weight

    Nutrition Education – Won’t Help You Lose Weight

    On yesterdays post James mentioned that he might want to go to college to study nutrition because he enjoys learning about it. The important thing James said was that he “enjoys learning about it”. This is probably the only reason to ever study nutrition. As of 2010 north american (and most industrialized countries) are experiencing…