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Adventures in Testosterone

I read an interesting article the other day about how a man doubled his testosterone levels by natural methods.  His dietary change was to add more fat and more cholesterol – more eggs, bacon, etc.  By...

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On Doing Without

As new generations arise, there is often new technology that is a part of their life.  As such, I think there is always something to learn from previous generations in regards to the value of this...

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Is Eating Earlier Better?

I keep seeing a number of studies that show that getting your food intake in earlier in the day is beneficial. This study in mice showed a larger breakfast helped control body weight.  This study...

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Hunger Can Be Taught

Not much time to comment, but this is a really good article on hunger.  I wrote a lot about eating when hungry last year.

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Are Weights On The Way Out?

One trend I’ve been seeing in health is a movement away from traditional weight training.  A few years ago, Mark Sisson wrote how he has moved to mostly bodyweight training.  Chad Waterbury now says...

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Are High-Protein Diets Better? Part III

Now that I’ve set the stage with the last couple posts, I want to focus in on this new study: Effect of the protein:carbohydrate ratio in hypoenergetic diets on metabolic syndrome risk factors in...

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Are High-Protein Diets Better? Part II

The last two posts have looked at resistance training as being the key for maintaining lean mass and resting metabolic rate during calorie restriction.  The next question is whether a higher protein...

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Are High-Protein Diets Better?

I saw a couple new studies that looked at higher-protein diets (here and here).  They might be used to make the case that higher-protein diets are better than normal-protein diets. But if you dig in a...

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Diets & Protein & Metabolic Rate

Here is a good review article(pdf) on how diets and exercise interact to affect weight loss and other variables. Here is how I would summarize the main points: 1.  Any diet program without an exercise...

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Snow Job

I read an article the other day about the Edward Snowden saga.  I don’t really have much of an opinion on the matter, but I was surprised by one of the statements he made. He said the internet is “the...

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Why Won’t Anyone Take On The Calorie Issue?

Over the last few posts, I have shown how various diets prescribe roughly 1,000 calories a day, along with the potential devasting consequences of this. So here’s one more diet for you.  This is...

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What Happens When You Eat 1,000 Calories A Day?

I wanted to point out an article that looks at the compensations with low-calorie diets in detail.  It is free full-text, and here is a portion from the abstract: “For the first time we show that in...

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The Omni Diet & Calories

A new book, “The Omni Diet“, was one of the books I flipped through at the store the other day.  It appears to be yet another low-calorie, lean meat and vegetables-type diet. The recipes on the website...

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Two-Year Paleo Fail?

The recent study by Mats Ryberg and company on the Paleolithic diet got a lot of attention.  But here’s one by that group that seems to have been overlooked. Take a look at this record for clinical...

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High-Protein to the Rescue (Almost)

I was looking back at an older study that studied high-protein diets.  It compared a fat-restricted ad libitum diet that was either high in protein or carbohydrates.  Here is a graph from the study:...

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Lean Meat & Vegetables Forever

The last few posts have focused on the current mainstream dietary prescription of lean meat and green vegetables.  The question now is after you get your 1,000 calories of lean meat and vegetables and...

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Lean Meat & Vegetables II

I saw an article in the paper about Billy Beck, trainer to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and other celebrities.  I wondered what he recommended as far as meals to lose fat. I found this video online.  At...

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Even Less Calories

I also looked through Bob Harper’s new book (trainer from the Biggest Loser).  He claims that: “experts ‘keep people in the dark about calorie  restriction, but they all know the truth’. His rule? ‘Cut...

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Lean Meat & Vegetables

I looked through a number of the new diet books at the local bookstore the other day.  Though they all had their own twist on the subject, they all essentially recommended the same thing: lean meat and...

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Doing the Paleo Math

Here’s one thing I’ve been curious about, and it relates to a previous post on calories.  I was looking through some of the meal plans in Art Devany’s book, “The New Evolution Diet”.  Here is one day’s...

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