Category: Weight Loss
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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…
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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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BMR Calculators and the Activity Factor for Weight Loss
Jonathan brought up a good question yesterday about BMR calculators and the activity factor that some BMR calculators add on. BMR calculators are based on various known assumptions and measurements about your lean body mass and how many calories your lean body mass will burn. These calculators usually need your height and weight and sometimes…
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Overeating at Holidays and Parties
The Saints won a great game yesterday and while they were doing it we consumed copious amounts of chicken wings, pizza, nachos and beer. And then I got to thinking about how often people in north america (and I’m sure all over the world) get together to celebrate various events and holidays with large feasts.…