Tag: Nutrition
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What Will YOU Do About Your Body?
The diet and fitness industry is hardly at a loss for words. Browsing the interwebs (or is it the world wide net…) will bring up thousands of pages of information, tips, and endless ‘must do’ and ‘never do’ lists. Within 5 minutes of searching you could easily come up with dozens of ‘rules‘ of fitness…
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Nutritionism – Living in the ‘what if’ instead of the ‘what is’
If you do any recreational reading of nutrition info and nutrition marketing you’ve likely read a lot of ‘what if’ stories. ‘What if’ stories are things like: What happens if I eat all my daily calories from carbs or What happens if I don’t eat enough protein today or What happens if I don’t eat…
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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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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…