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Focus on WHAT you Eat vs Crazy Calorie Counting

Introduction Despite the fact that every lasting healthy lifestyle (whole foods, paleo, vegetarian, low-carb, low-glycemic, Mediterranean, etc.) focuses on what we eat rather than how muchwe eat, the mainstream still seems to insist that if we just counted our calories more conservatively, we could end the obesity epidemic. The proven fact is that calorie-counting approaches […]

Bottom Line: A Calorie is NOT A Calorie In Real Life

A Calorie is NOT A Calorie Big Ideas A Calorie is Not a Calorie “Attacking the obesity epidemic will involve giving up many old ideas that have not been productive. ‘A calorie is a calorie’ might be a good place to start.” – R.D. Feinman, State University of New York Beyond battling our basic biology, […]

How Isocaloric Studies Can Change Your Life

Isocaloric Studies The Top 10 Big Ideas Low Quality vs. High Quality “[We found] highly significant inverse correlations between food energy intake and adiposity [body fat].” – H. Keen, King’s College LondonEating more low-quality food causes us to gain body fat. But that does not mean eating more food produces the same result. Interestingly enough, eating more high-quality food […]

How to Exercise Less To Burn Fat & Boost Health (Part 2)

The Top 10 Big Ideas What Does the Data Say? “It is reasonable to assume that persons with relatively high daily energy expenditures would be less likely to gain weight over time compared with those who have low energy expenditures. So far, data to support this hypothesis are not particularly compelling.” – American Heart Association […]

How To Exercise Less & Burn More Part 1

Top 10 Big Ideas Be on Purpose, Don’t Wander “My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven today and we don’t know where the hell she is.” – Ellen DeGeneres Exercise vs. Food Intake In the same way that people drink more fluids when they exercise more, they […]