Category: Fat Loss
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You’re Not Broken – The System Is
Here is a quote from a national Canadian newspaper article today: “We know that within the past 30 years, the prevalence of obesity doubled among those ages 40 to 69 and tripled among those 20 to 39,” Can you see what the obvious implication of this quote is? It’s that there is nothing wrong with…
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How do You Measure Fat Loss?
If you’re trying to lose some fat you’re probably measuring your progress one of two was: weight loss, or inches lost. Both of these measurement styles are crude and break down when you’re only trying to lose a few pounds of fat. Most people will fluctuate up to 5 pounds per day in body weight…
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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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Emotion vs Logic – What You Feel vs What You Think
Yesterdays post generated an interesting discussion, and one of the comments stimulated today’s post. I want to thank Irene for her comment because it forced me to elaborate my point and also clearly demonstrates the issue at hand and reason for yesterdays post in the first place. Yesterdays headline was written in order to get…
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Excess Body Fat Is Repulsive
I”m sure the headline of this post will have a number of groups of people up in arms. But I don’t care what anyone else thinks, because it’s true. The fact is most if not all humans find excess bodyfat repulsive, and or disgusting. I’m not referring to these words in the pop culture definition,…