You can eat a lot during the Holiday Season and gain no body fat, as long as you also eat little body fat, calorie restriction, dietary fat, fasting, fat loss, Holiday Season, intermittent fasting, palatability, paleo diet, satiety This post has been revised and re-published . The original comments are preserved below. Typically this is done with posts that attract man... Read More
You can eat a lot during the Holiday Season and gain no body fat, as long as you also eat little body fat, calorie restriction, dietary fat, fasting, fat loss, Holiday Season, intermittent fasting, palatability, paleo diet, satiety The evolutionary pressures placed by periods of famine shaped the physiology of most animals, including humans, toward a design that favors... Read More
How lean should one be? BMI, body fat, diabetes, diseases of civilization, evolution, fat loss, muscle gain, muscle loss, obesity, Okinawa Loss of muscle mass is associated with aging. It is also associated with the metabolic syndrome, together with excessive body fat gain. It i... Read More
No fat gain while eating well during the Holiday Season: Palatability isolines, the 14-percent advantage, and nature’s special spice body fat, calorie restriction, dietary fat, fasting, fat loss, Holiday Season, intermittent fasting, paleo diet Like most animals, our Paleolithic ancestors had to regularly undergo short periods of low calorie intake. If they were successful at procur... Read More
Gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time: A more customized approach based on strength training and calorie intake variation body fat, fasting, fat loss, intermittent fasting, muscle gain, muscle loss, protein In the two last posts I discussed the idea of gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time ( ) ( ). This post outlines one approach to mak... Read More
Gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time: Various issues and two key requirements autophagy, body fat, fat loss, muscle gain, muscle loss, protein, strength training 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... Read More
Fasting for 24 hours and ending up with a bigger waist!? This may be a sign that you are losing abdominal fat body fat, fasting, fat loss, waist circumference 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 ... Read More
How to lose fat and gain muscle at the same time? Strength training plus a mild caloric deficit body fat, endurance exercise, fat loss, muscle gain, research, resistance exercise, strength training Ballor et al. (1996) conducted a classic and interesting study on body composition changes induced by aerobic and strength training. This st... Read More
Kleiber's law and its possible implications for obesity body fat, fat loss, Kleiber's law, metabolic rate, obesity, weight loss Kleiber's law ( ) is one of those “laws” of nature that is both derived from, and seems to fit quite well with, empirical data. It appli... Read More
Dr. Jekyll dieted and became Mr. Hyde Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, fat loss, hypoglycemia, paleo diet, reactive hypoglycemia One of the most fascinating topics for an independent health researcher is the dichotomy between short- and long-term responses in success... Read More