Benefits of Fasting for Weight Loss Put to the Test. I talked about the benefits of calorie restriction. Well, the greatest caloric restriction is no calories at all. Fasting has been branded the next big weight loss fad but has a long history throughout various spiritual traditions practiced by Moses Jesus Muhammed and Buddha In…
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In this series, I’ll look at the factors that lead to both overeating and satiety. What food components make us feel full? Why does more variety lead to eating more quantity And what lifestyle approaches can we implement to increase the good food choices and reduce the bad ones, Keep watching to find out 200…
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“Does Apple Cider Vinegar Help with Weight Loss?” Vinegar has been used as a weight-loss aid for nearly 200 years, but does it work? Well, like hot sauce, it can be a nearly calorie-free way to flavor foods, and there are all sorts of tasty exotic vinegar out there now like fig, peach, and pomegranate…
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“What is the Optimal Diet?” England has been keeping mortality statistics since 1665, then yes, one person fell down some stairs and died, but in that week, nearly 4,000 people died of the plague. Today, the modern plague is heart disease, the #1 killer of men and women, but it wasn’t always this way. If…
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“Is Breakfast the Most Important Meal for Weight Loss?” Breakfast is widely touted as not only the most important meal of the day in general but specifically for weight loss. This is not just a pop culture prescription from checkout aisle magazines, but an idea put forward by prestigious institutions such as Johns Hopkins, NYU,…
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“Does Sugar Lead to Weight Gain?” The obesity epidemic may just be the tip of the iceberg in terms of excess body fat. It’s been estimated that 91% of adults—9 out of 10 of us— and 69% of children in the The United States is “overfat,” defined as excess body fat sufficient to impair health…
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“Keto Diets: Muscle Growth and Bone Density” An official International Society of Sports Nutrition position paper covering keto diets notes the erotic effects of keto diets on both high and low-intensity workouts. Ergolytic is the opposite of ergogenic. Ergogenic means performance-boosting, whereas erotic means athletic-performance impairing. For nonathletes, ketosis may also undermine exercise efforts. Ketosis…
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“What is the Optimal Diet?” England has been keeping mortality statistics since 1665, then yes, one person fell down some stairs and died, but in that week, nearly 4,000 people died of the plague. Today, the modern plague is heart disease, the #1 killer of men and women, but it wasn’t always this way. If…
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"The Weight Loss Program That Got Better with Time" The CHIP program may be the most well-published community-based lifestyle intervention in the medical literature, and one of the most effective with clinical changes approaching that achieved in live-in residential lifestyle programs. Encouraging people to transition towards a more whole food plant-based diet achieved blood pressure…
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