Does Eating too Quickly Contribute to Obesity?
When I was a kid, my best friend and I would often stop at a local fast food restaurant called the Red Barn, for a burger, soda and fries. She’d be finished with her entire meal before I’d eaten even half of my burger…one time, she nearly made me choke from laughing, as she went through an elaborate pantomime of me, eating sooo slooowly. I tried to eat faster at times, but it was hopeless – I just...
Stacking the Deck
As a former university researcher, I’m quite familiar with how studies are conducted…I’ve been involved in a few of ’em myself. So naturally, when I evaluate supplement claims, one of the first places I look is in the peer-reviewed, published literature. A claim is more likely to be true, if it’s been independently tested, and the results assessed by other experts in the field. Unfortunately, even the...
Recipe of the Week: Asian Tuna Salad.
Why are so many people’s “healthy” diets, so gosh-darned dull? It’s one of those unfathomable laws of the universe, it seems. Every time I review a diet, it’s always the same: plain baked chicken/fish or dry canned-in-water tuna, plain steamed or raw vegetables, plain gummy oatmeal, maybe a piece of fruit or a protein shake. Zzzzzzzz… Yeah, they’re healthy foods and all, but soooooo...
How to NOT Count Calories
Over on the “Bodybuilding Revealed” and “Fat Loss Revealed” forums, we encourage people to weigh/measure their food and keep track of their calorie intake. After all, changes in body composition are the name of the game. If things aren’t going the way they should, you need to know exactly what you’re doing, in order to get an idea of what to change. On the other hand, it can get out of hand. I...
Exercise To Lose Weight? But I HATE Exercising!
Awwwww… do I have to? Despite some recent publicized silliness that indicated that exercise offered no “metabolic advantage” to those who included it in their diet programs (see this post from Elissa for complete details), exercise is a critical element of any weight loss program. It’s simple really… to lose weight, you must create a caloric deficit; take in fewer calories than you expend. There are two...
Spot Reduction is Still a Myth…
Every so often, I’ll field a question on one of the forums I moderate about the best exercises for – say – losing excess fat around the midsection or thighs…and I always respond the same way: “Spot reduction is a myth. The fat around your <insert body part here> belongs to your whole body, and exercising that area won’t do anything to shift it, except as part of a comprehensive...
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