Category: Nutrition
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Calorie Burning Foods
The Claim: Certain foods cause you to burn more calories digesting them than others Answer: FACT Protein actually has a slightly higher thermic effect than carbs or fat. In other words it takes a bit more energy to digest and metabolize protein. But this effect is minimal and will never help you actually lose body…
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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…
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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…
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What Are You Eating?
Food is one thing all people have in common…let me re-phrase that…EATING food is one thing we all have in common…and the similarities seem to end right there. It’s very hard to find two people who eat exactly the same diet. These are all the factors that make up your diet: 1. # of Meal…
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Nutrition Rules – Follow At Your Own Risk
I was standing in line at the grocery store the other day scanning the magazines at the check out counter and I kept seeing headlines with the words ‘nutrition rules’ or ‘rules of nutrition’. This is disturbing because people tend to believe things that are written in magazines (I have no idea why)…and when something…