Tag: Fitness
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Health and Fitness Information – What is it Good For?
Why do you suppose anyone reads about health and fitness? My guess is that they want to improve both their health and fitness (kind of obvious I know) But there has to be a point where you simply cannot continue to make measurable improvements…or at least there will be a point where more information, more…
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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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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…