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		<title>Bulk or Cut?</title>
		<link>http://www.yewhealth.com/2010/07/31/bulk-or-cut/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tan Yew Wei</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While there are many people who strive for athletic performance, it&#8217;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 &#8216;curves&#8217; by having more muscle as well). After the miracle period of beginner gains, we face a fundamental [...]


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		<title>Hunger</title>
		<link>http://www.yewhealth.com/2010/07/24/hunger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tan Yew Wei</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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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		<title>Ego Lifts</title>
		<link>http://www.yewhealth.com/2010/07/17/ego-lifts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 07:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tan Yew Wei</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All the washed-up gym rats know what I mean when I talk about the &#8220;Big Three&#8221;. They are the Squat, the Deadlift, and the Bench Press are all too often touted as the must do for any gym-goer. It&#8217;s obvious why people like to do these three lifts: You can move a ton of weight. [...]


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		<title>The Benefits of Boring</title>
		<link>http://www.yewhealth.com/2010/07/03/the-benefits-of-boring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tan Yew Wei</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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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		<title>10 Foods that Sobataged My Fat Loss Efforts</title>
		<link>http://www.yewhealth.com/2010/06/27/10-foods-that-sobataged-my-fat-loss-efforts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tan Yew Wei</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve dieted in the past, and while I kept to &#8220;healthy&#8221; foods, I still had trouble with adherence. Back then, I created a (mental) list of foods that I must avoid to prevent me from blowing my diet. These were 10 of those foods: Nuts &#8211; Pure Calorie Bombs Nut butters &#8211; peanut butter, almond [...]


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		<title>Get More Sleep</title>
		<link>http://www.yewhealth.com/2010/06/18/get-more-sleep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tan Yew Wei</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t need to tell you about all the research that has been done about sleep deprivation and its negative consequences. The bottom line is that everyone should be getting a good 8 hours of sleep every night. Yet, most people don&#8217;t get 8 hours of sleep a day, and the reason oft quoted is [...]


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		<title>Why I&#8217;m Against Vegetarianism</title>
		<link>http://www.yewhealth.com/2010/06/10/why-im-against-vegetarianism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tan Yew Wei</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Basically, it&#8217;s not the healthiest route forward. Regardless of whether you&#8217;re an athlete or an office worker, going vegetarian isn&#8217;t the smartest thing to do. It&#8217;s Hard to Get Enough Protein Protein has many benefits which I talked about in the recent article &#8216;How Much protein should you eat?&#8216;. Unfortunately, getting enough protein from non-meat [...]


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		<title>Effort</title>
		<link>http://www.yewhealth.com/2010/05/26/effort/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 09:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tan Yew Wei</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people don&#8217;t put enough effort into their training. In fact, pick whatever tasks you can think of, and you&#8217;ll find that most people partaking in that task just don&#8217;t put in real effort. For some reason, people just don&#8217;t want to do their jobs well, whether they be students, real estate agents, marketers, lawyers, [...]


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		<title>We Have a Behavioural Problem</title>
		<link>http://www.yewhealth.com/2010/05/21/we-have-a-behavioural-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 23:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tan Yew Wei</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Losing fat isn&#8217;t a biological problem, it&#8217;s a behavioural problem. Many have heard the oft quoted statistic that around 2/3rds of Americans are Overweight or Obese. Many battle cries have followed, more recently by figures like Jamie Oliver, who even won a TED prize for his efforts. While he hasn&#8217;t solved the obesity epidemic, I [...]


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		<title>A Matter of Faith</title>
		<link>http://www.yewhealth.com/2010/05/07/a-matter-of-faith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 09:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tan Yew Wei</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post about Coffee, I said that the long term health implications of ingesting large amounts of Caffeine isn&#8217;t known very well. Even if you&#8217;re the 6-cups-a-day kind of person, how long would it be before you experience the negative consequences? With so many things happening in life, it becomes impossible to attribute [...]


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