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Shifting the Blame of Fat

February 24, 2010
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I’ve seen a derivative of the phrase, “being fat is not your fault”, many times. It comes up in various forms. Some of these are videos, like this one that cites Gary Taubes, stating that “your’e not getting fat because you’re eating more, you’re eating more because you’re getting fat”. Even in books like ‘Mean [...]

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Adopting Healthy Habits

February 13, 2010
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Be it trying to lose some weight, sticking to an exercise regime, taking your vitamins, quitting smoking, or any other goal, if it is something that goes against your usual routine, adopting a new habit is going to be met with some resistance. You can reframe the problem (it’s about building NEW habits, not destroying [...]

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Health Problems: A Car Crash in Slow Motion

January 29, 2010
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To summarise this post: Science works by random experimentation, and then picking out patterns. More importantly, we pick what we think is statistically significant; patterns which apply to a large enough set of averages. Health problems can be compared to a car crash, one that takes place over the course of years. Take this case [...]

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Vitamin D for the layperson

December 1, 2009
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This post is exactly what the title and graphic suggest: it is a post talking about one of the essential vitamins for good health, Vitamin D. Vitamin D is a sunshine vitamin, and it is made in the skin when exposed to UVB radiation. Unfortunately, our paranoia over skin cancers has led people to believe [...]

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Scientific Research: The compilers, commentors and the researchers

October 8, 2009
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In this article, I talk about the biases that can arise from so called scientific research. A disclaimer, this article stands at about 3700 words, and is by no means an easy read in terms of the concepts thrown out and the length itself. Needless to say, this is not for everyone. But if you’re [...]

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Men vs Women: How Different

September 27, 2009
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Clearly, anyone who thinks that a man and a woman are equal must be living on Mars. Sure, we have equal rights, blah blah, but when it comes to fitness training, nature designed the male and female body in pretty different ways. As you would guess, this has some implications on how a female should [...]

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Diet Self-Sabotage 4: Preventing Self-Sabotage

September 19, 2009
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This is the last (and shortest) post in Self-Sabotage in Fat Loss Diets. It is mainly a summary, and ultimately, change will have to be initated by the subject himself/herself. In Diet Self-Sabotage 1: The Lack of Proper Expectations and the Proper Plan, I talked about how people set unrealistic and unspecific goals and expectations [...]

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Diet Self-Sabotage 2: Patience, Perception and Randomness is Dieting

September 12, 2009
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This is the second post in the series, “Self-Sabotage in Fat Loss Diets“. This is a long post. The words patience and randomness don’t go well together. In this post, I will tell you why most people fail in their dieting attempts, and why in my first post in this series, I said that women [...]

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Why Count Calories

August 17, 2009

This is part 1 of the “3 part calorie counting series“ One reason only: To Quantify Energy intake and expenditure To achieve one’s fitness goals, most of the time you need to manipulate energy balance. If you want to lose weight, then obviously you need to eat less than you expend, you can easily quantify [...]

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The 3 part Counting Calories Series

August 15, 2009

The aim of this series is to address possible questions about mastering the ability to count calories. In this 3 part series, I will address these 3 issues in 3 different posts: What is a calorie and Why Should We Count Calories How to count calories How much are you eating? A Short Primer Food [...]

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