Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
New Psychedelic Weight Loss Drug Transforms Food Into Monstrous Hallucinations
via theonion.com
Entries Tagged as 'diet'
Monday, May 30th, 2011
Ernestine Shepherd, World’s Oldest Female Bodybuilder, Muscles Her Way Into Guinness World Records (VIDEO)
via weirdnews.aol.com Calorie restriction with optimal nutrition (CRON) is one of the few life extension regimens that has solid scientific backing. However, many of the people who I know practice CRON look like famine victims — skinny, gaunt, weak. Ernestine, and other older bodybuilders such as Clarence Bass have better bodies than many people in [...]
Friday, March 25th, 2011
Intermittent fasting preserves lean mass
Dietary restriction is an effective strategy for weight loss in obese individuals. The most common form of dietary restriction implemented is daily calorie restriction (CR), which involves reducing energy by 15-60% of usual caloric intake every day. Another form of dietary restriction employed is intermittent CR, which involves 24 h of ad libitum food consumption alternated [...]
Sunday, March 20th, 2011
Fasting – the ultimate diet?
Stuart and Flemming published data from the longest fast, 382 days, on an obese man in Dundee, making it into the Guinness Book of Records, after reaching a 75% WL via onlinelibrary.wiley.com “Conclusions: We can conclude that fasting is a ‘quick fix’ to achieve a substantial WL (up to 5% loss in 6 days). There is, [...]
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
Whole Health Source: Potatoes and Human Health, Part III
Dr. Hindhede discovered that potato protein is high quality, providing all essential amino acids and high digestibility. Potato protein alone is sufficient to sustain an athletic man (although that doesn’t make it optimal). A subsequent potato feeding study published in 1927 confirmed this finding (17). Two volunteers, a man and a woman, ate almost nothing [...]
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
Fitness to Survive in the Wild | Men’s Health
I’ve just arrived at Le Corre’s training base in the Brazilian rain forest. For the next 3 days, he’ll be teaching me one of humankind’s oldest, trickiest, and most indispensable physical disciplines. Le Corre calls it “Natural Movement” — or “MovNat” in its French abbreviation — and to explain what it is, he points at [...]
Monday, November 8th, 2010
Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds
For 10 weeks, Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, ate one of these sugary cakelets every three hours, instead of meals. To add variety in his steady stream of Hostess and Little Debbie snacks, Haub munched on Doritos chips, sugary cereals and Oreos, too. His premise: That in weight loss, [...]
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
Tools Unmask Desires
How much do we really know about why we do what we do? We are usually quite ready to explain the reasons for our actions in some detail, but on closer examination such explanations often seem to be rationalizations. So how can we tell which of our explanations to believe? If we are not willing [...]
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
Cash for Weight Loss: Website Pays People to Slim Down
According to a 2008 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, dieters who had a financial incentive to lose weight were nearly five times as likely to meet their goal when compared with dieters who had no potential for a financial reward. via time.com Posted via web from crasch’s posterous
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
Five-a-day has little impact on cancer, study finds
Eating more fruit and vegetables has only a modest effect on protecting against cancer, a study into the link between diet and disease has found. The study of 500,000 Europeans joins a growing body of evidence undermining the high hopes that pushing “five-a-day” might slash Western cancer rates. The international team of researchers estimates only [...]
