Jordan Hedberg
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Drop the Scale and Grab the Tape
When people decide that it is time to start losing weight, they often turn to the bathroom scale first to measure progress. There is a certain thrill of expectation when one wakes up, gets on the scale, and sees the results of hard exercise and counting calories. However, disappointment is as common as is the feeling of elation when the…
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The Inaccuracy of Food Label Calories
It is often assumed that the number of calories that are listed on a food label are relatively close to the actual number of calories that are in the food. However, the nutrition facts on food labels are based on average estimates of fat, protein, and carbohydrates.
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Lose Fat, Not Muscle
When people start to lose weight, they tend to think that they are losing fat. But weight loss does not mean just fat is being lost.
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Removing Sugar is the Best Thing for Cutting Calories
For consistent fat loss, there is one thing that has to be eliminated if the diet is going to work. While there are many diets, every one of them works because processed carbohydrates are removed. The food that causes the most problems not only for weight loss, heart disease, gout, and cancer, is sugar.
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Busting the Myth that Overeating Causes Obesity
Scientists got the Calories-in equals Calories-out equation backward. But this means that the fix is easier than most might think.
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Why Carbs and Sugar Make you Hungry
The Carbohydrate-Insulin Loop is a vicious process of spiking insulin and making people hungry again quickly. This article explains the process and what to do about it.
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The Reason We Get Fat
The reason we get fat has little to do with how much food we eat, but instead on what types of food we eat. This is known as The Carb-Insulin Hypothesis Vs. The Energy Balance Hypothesis.
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Not All Calories are Made the Same
While calories in and calories out are considered scientific fact, not all calories are made the same. This article points out why type of calories matters.
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