Ketosis is a state typically associated with very low carbohydrate diets, such as the Atkins diet. In this state, the liver produces ketones...
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Gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time: Various issues and two key requirements
In my previous post ( ), I mentioned that the idea of gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time seems impossible to most people because...
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Can intermittent very-low-calorie dieting cure diabetes?
The health effects of very-low-calorie diets (VLCDs) adopted for short periods of time (e.g., 5 days) have been the target of much recent ...
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Adiponectin, inflammation, diabetes, and heart disease
Humans, like many animals, evolved to be episodic eaters and spend most of their time fasting. Body fat is the main store of energy in the h...
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The 14-percent advantage of eating little and then a lot: Putting it in practice
In my previous post I argued that the human body may react to “eating big” as it would to overfeeding, increasing energy expenditure by a ce...
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Could grain-fed beef liver be particularly nutritious?
There is a pervasive belief today that grain-fed beef is unhealthy, a belief that I addressed before in this blog ( ) and that I think is ...
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Body fat and disease: How much body fat can I lose in one day?
adiponectin,
body fat,
fasting,
glycogen depletion,
inflammation,
intermittent fasting,
leptin,
obesity,
research,
resistin
Body fat is not an inert deposit of energy. It can be seen as a distributed endocrine organ. Body fat cells, or adipocytes, secrete a number...
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Gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time: If I can do it, anyone can
The idea of gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time seems impossible because of three widely held misconceptions: (a) to gain muscle ...
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Low nonexercise activity thermogenesis: Uncooperative genes or comfy furniture?
The degree of nonexercise activity thermogenesis ( NEAT ) seems to a major factor influencing the amount of fat gained or lost by an individ...
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My transformation: I cannot remember the last time I had a fever
The two photos below (click to enlarge) were taken 4 years apart. The one on the left was taken in 2006, when I weighed 210 lbs (95 kg). Sin...
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Subcutaneous versus visceral fat: How to tell the difference?
The photos below, from Wikipedia, show two patterns of abdominal fat deposition. The one on the left is predominantly of subcutaneous abdomi...
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The megafat could be the healthiest
Typically obesity leads to health problems via insulin resistance ( ). Excess calories are stored as fat in fat cells up to a certain poin...
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The 14-percent advantage of eating little and then a lot: Is it real?
BMI,
body fat,
energy expenditure,
fasting,
intermittent fasting,
NEAT,
overfeeding,
starvation,
weight loss
When you look at the literature on overfeeding, you see a number over and over again – 14 percent. That is approximately the increase in ene...
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How can carrying some extra body fat be healthy?
Most of the empirical investigations into the association between body mass index (BMI) and mortality suggest that the lowest-mortality BM...
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Fasting for 24 hours and ending up with a bigger waist!? This may be a sign that you are losing abdominal fat
This is such a common phenomenon that you’d expect to see it discussed more often – people fasting for a non-negligible number of hours and ...
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Waist-to-weight ratios in pictures: The John Stone transformation
John Stone is a bodybuilder and founder of a bodybuilding and fitness web site ( ). There he has provided pictures and stats of his remark...
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