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POPSGary Taubes: The great diet delusion More: The institutionalised conviction that we get fat simply because we overeat is based on the kind of fallacious reasoning that would lead to a failing grade in a high-school logic class. The first law of thermodynamics tells us that energy is neither created nor destroyed, so the calories we consume must be either stored, expended or excreted. If we are getting fatter, we must be taking in more energy than we are giving out: we are overeating. But this does not tell us which direction the arrow of causality is pointing. Do we get fat because we overeat, or is some regulatory or hormonal phenomenon driving us to fatten and in turn causing us to overeat? Saying that obesity is explained by overeating and/or sedentary behaviour is like saying that chronic fatigue syndrome is explained by a lack of energy. It sounds obvious; it tells us nothing.
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POPSGymnema extract control cravings by stabilizing blood sugar Gymnema extract helps control cravings. When used regularly, it reduces blood sugar levels, and can be a powerful aid to keep blood sugar balanced. Stabilizing blood sugar levels greatly reduces the urge to snack, and controls overeating. The article here explains how it works.
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POPSHow do you cope during tough times? This has been on my mind for some time and is probably has on yours...too many people are suffering from the economic crisis going on around us. My wife was reading a headline about there being another real estate crash coming. I didn't even want her to read the article as it is too depressing. If you feel the same, try these helpful tips:
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POPSObesity dizzying array of treatments , but do these address the causes of overeating ?
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POPSList Of Fat Burning Foods Mother Nature has already invented fat burning substances which facilitate weight loss. In fact, lots of fruit and vegetable contain fat burning or fat flushing substances. See our list of top 16 fat burning foods.
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POPSConstipation Constipation is a common disturbance in the digestive tract. This condition is caused by a lot of things such as insufficient intake of water, consumption of meat in large quantities, excessive use of strong coffee and tea, overeating and wrong combination of foods as well as irregular habits of eating and drinking.
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POPSBulking and Cutting If you’ve spent much time in a gym, you’ve heard of this approach. The idea is to spend a few months bulking up by lifting weights, doing no cardio, and eating lots of calories and then cutting up by reducing calories.
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POPS"Obesity caught like common cold" continues (through link): It is increasingly clear, several experts say, that viruses might play a role in some obesity cases. There are 49 known human adenoviruses. They cause everything from the common cold to gastrointestinal problems and eye inflammation, pneumonia, croup, and bronchitis. AD-36 was first fingered as being possibly linked to obesity more than a decade ago. Nikhil Dhurandhar, of Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana, and a colleague made the connection in 1997 in research presented at an annual Experimental Biology meeting. That preliminary study of 199 people found that up to 15 percent of them carried antibodies to the virus, which provided indirect evidence that they once were exposed to the virus itself.
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POPSEAT UNTIL YOU’RE NO LONGER HUNGRY, NOT FULL There is a very fine distinction between feeling not hungry and feeling full, and it took me a while to learn to notice it. To avoid overeating you want to leave the table when you no longer feel hungry, when the food is beginning to not taste as good as it did originally and you’re just continuing to eat it because it’s there.
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POPSBenefits of Drinking Water Water is a magical drink. It helps transport vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients throughout our bodies, plus it flushes out toxins and other waste products. Our muscles consist of 70 percent water, so drinking lots of it helps keep them looking full and pumped.
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POPSBorderline Personality Disorder "...What defines borderline personality disorder--and makes it so explosive--is the sufferers' inability to calibrate their feelings and behavior. When faced with an event that makes them depressed or angry, they often become inconsolable or enraged. Such problems may be exacerbated by impulsive behaviors: overeating or substance abuse; suicide attempts; intentional self-injury. (The methods of self-harm that borderlines choose can be gruesomely creative. One psychologist told me of a woman who used fingernail clippers to pull off slivers of her skin.""
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POPSRole of the brain in making people more likely to overeat Obesity: Gene discovery suggests some people are hardwired to overeat The discovery of six genes that raise the risk of obesity highlights the role of the brain in making people more likely to overeat fat obese overweight Five of the six newly discovered genes are active in the brain, suggesting appetite plays a larger part in obesity than metabolism.
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POPSThe Pilgrims and Tisquantum: A Thanksgiving Tale Tisquantum finally settled with the Pilgrims in Plymouth. He taught them how to catch eel, plant corn and fertilize their crops. He died, however, before he could teach them how not to be dicks. After their first harvest in 1621, the Pilgrims set apart a holiday of food, feasting, and praising God. This later came to be called “Thanksgiving,” a holiday of overeating, forced time with undesirable relatives, and shopping. :LOL: Dickipedia.org Home (all entries)
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