Mindset

Medicine through the Years

February 23, 2011

*Note: This was a post initially intended for scrivle.com, and can be found here. Click through the link if you want to download the PDF version of the above sketch. — We’ve come a long way in the field medicine since the good old days of praying for survival. Today, we can cure many of [...]

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Your Body Can Patch the Cracks, Not Mend the Foundation

February 14, 2011

The body is a wonderful thing – a complex piece of machinery with a set of instructions that even allow it to fix itself. Underlying this machinery is a system that works within its operating conditions. Unfortunately, the ways in which we stress our body today pushes us past those operating conditions far too often. [...]

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Playing With Your Food

January 23, 2011

As some may have noticed, I haven’t been posting here recently. Life gets in the way, and priorities change – I haven’t been reading all too much about health and fitness related research and hence have had not much to say. For most people, it’s times like this when all hell breaks loose on the [...]

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How I mastered eating Leangains style

September 5, 2010

I’ll be honest here, I owe a lot to Martin Berkhan’s Leangains system. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the system, it’s basically an Intermittent Fasting scheme. You eat during an 8 hour feeding window, fasting for the other 16 hours. In a way, it’s an eating philosophy. The reason it piqued my [...]

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Hunger

July 24, 2010
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Hunger is both real and imagined. First there is the real type of hunger, physiological hunger. It can be measured by changes in hormone levels and is thus quatifiable. Then there is the imagined type of hunger, psychological hunger. It can roughly be estimated by the number of McDonald signs encountered through the day, but [...]

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Ego Lifts

July 17, 2010
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All the washed-up gym rats know what I mean when I talk about the “Big Three”. They are the Squat, the Deadlift, and the Bench Press are all too often touted as the must do for any gym-goer. It’s obvious why people like to do these three lifts: You can move a ton of weight. [...]

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The Benefits of Boring

July 3, 2010
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Routine is good for the soul Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the Black Swan, once opined that when it coms to investing, one should put 90% of assets into low-risk investments, and the remaining 10% into high-risk investments. That way, one could get the upside of risk; graced by lady luck with a windfall. At [...]

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Lose 10lbs in 12hrs

June 23, 2010
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Here is a simple 3-step protocol to lose 10lbs in 12hours, guaranteed. Step 1: Do some depletion training Head over to the gym and do 5 sets of 20 reps for each major muscle group. Shoulders, chest, back, arms, legs, abs -  feel the burn! Step 2: Go back home and instead of eating anything, [...]

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The Psychology of Scale Weight

June 14, 2010
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Scale weight is simply that – the weight that you see when you step on a weighing scale. TV shows like ‘The Biggest Loser’ have shown that we’re obsessed with scale weight. As such, many people who embark on a diet use scale weight as the defining factor of reaching their goals. That’s good, since [...]

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Trigger Foods

May 29, 2010

For many people, there is this class of foods which are deemed as trigger foods. Basically, these foods somehow make you want to eat more instead of satisfying you. Ever pick up a cookie, thinking that you could just eat one, and eating 10 instead? Or tell yourself that you were just going to eat [...]

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