Engineered foods are designed by smart people, and the goal is not usually to make you healthy; the goal is to sell as many units as possibl...
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Showing posts with label intermittent fasting. Show all posts
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...
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Intermittent fasting as a form of liberation
I have been doing a lot of reading over the years on isolated hunter-gatherer populations; see three references at the end of this post, all...
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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...
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Strength training plus fasting regularly, and becoming diabetic!? No, it is just compensatory adaptation at work
compensatory adaptation,
cortisol,
diabetes,
glucose,
glycation,
glycogen depletion,
growth hormone,
HbA1c,
insulin,
intermittent fasting,
research
One common outcome of doing glycogen-depleting exercise (e.g., strength training, sprinting) in combination with intermittent fasting is an ...
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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...
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Gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time: A more customized approach based on strength training and calorie intake variation
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...
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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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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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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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Daniel Suelo, the man who quit money, seems remarkably healthy
comfortable furniture,
Daniel Suelo,
depression,
fasting,
interesting people,
intermittent fasting,
simple living
Daniel James Shellabarger (better known as Daniel Suelo) is portrayed in the bestselling 2012 nonfiction book by Mark Sundeen titled “The Ma...
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Do you lose muscle if you lift weights after a 24-hour fast? Probably not if you do that regularly
body fat,
compensatory adaptation,
gluconeogenesis,
glucose,
glycogen depletion,
intermittent fasting,
ketones,
ketosis,
muscle gain,
muscle loss,
research,
resistance exercise,
strength training
Compensatory adaptation (CA) is an idea that is useful in the understanding of how the body reacts to inputs like dietary intake of macronu...
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Muscle loss during short-term fasting
This is an issue that often comes up in online health discussions, and was the topic of a conversation I had the other day with a friend abo...
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Intermittent fasting and reduced inflammation
A recent post on the Primal Wisdom blog led me to do go back to some of the research on an approach to dieting that I tried myself, with so...
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