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Bulk or Cut?

July 31, 2010
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While there are many people who strive for athletic performance, it’s more like that the the average person just wants to look good naked. That approximately translates to more muscle and less fat (and ladies, you get ‘curves’ by having more muscle as well). After the miracle period of beginner gains, we face a fundamental [...]

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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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How much protein should you eat?

June 5, 2010

Athletes are known to put strong emphasis on consuming dietary proteins. Lyle McDonald does a great post on how much protein athletes need. That begs the question: What about everyone else? Protein is one of the most important nutrients in the body, yet the general populus doesn’t seem to care about it. Here’s what their [...]

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Coffee

May 3, 2010
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Caffeine is one of the most ubiquitous drugs you can find. Available over-the-counter for a low price, it’s indispensable to some, and detested by others. Some (most) people claim that they can’t do without it, and others ardently claim that coffee is the root of all evil, citing anecdotal evidence of feeling much better without [...]

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Supplements are Necessary

December 21, 2009
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This article is basically selling the idea that supplements are necessary for good health. What I will do is to define the need for such supplements, and then to give a list of some supplements that I think everybody should have. First, a definition. This, I must unfortunately say, is horrendously vague. A supplement can [...]

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Fad Diets

December 4, 2009
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I’ve mentioned my dislike for fad diets every now and then, but I have never defined what I deem to be a fad diet. This post will clarify some of that, and I will touch on my definition of a fad diet, as well as attack two notable examples. I will stick to the diets [...]

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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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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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