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Why Some People Can Drink Alcohol Without Getting Fat

by Tom Venuto - updated 2009/8/23
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By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS

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Alcohol has been implicated as a factor that may hurt your efforts to lose body fat. Whether alcohol is "fattening" has been a very controversial subject because technically speaking, alcohol is NOT stored as fat; it is oxidized ahead of other fuels.

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by HeWeHap Health Reporters - updated 2009/8/23
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3500 Calories To Lose A Pound - Is This Formula All Wrong?

by Tom Venuto - updated 2009/8/23
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By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS

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Most fitness conscious people have heard that there are 3,500 calories in a pound of fat, so if you create a deficit of 3500 calories in a week, you lose a pound of weight. If you create a deficit of 7000 calories in a week, you lose two pounds, and so on. Right? Well, not so fast…

How Liquid Calories May Be Making You Fat... Even Your Favorite Protein Drinks!

by Tom Venuto - updated 2009/8/23
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By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS

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At least 7 scientific studies have provided strong evidence that energy containing beverages (i.e., “liquid calories”) do not properly activate the satiety mechanisms in the body and brain and do not satisfy the appetite as well as food in solid form.

Epidemiological research also supports a positive association between calorie-containing beverage consumption and increased body weight or body mass index. New research now suggests that soda may not be the only culprit…

2 Cardio Mistakes You're Still Making

by Tom Venuto - updated 2009/8/23
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By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS

www.BurnTheFat.com

The controversies over cardio for fat loss are endless: steady state versus intervals, fed versus fasted, long and easy versus short and intense, and so on. Obviously there is a lot of interest in cardio training and how to do it right. Sadly, most people are still doing 2 things terribly wrong and it’s killing their results…… As best as I can figure, there are two major reasons why people are still mucking up their cardio programs for fat loss.

Wu Long Tea (oolong tea): Does it really help you lose weight?

by Tom Venuto - updated 2009/8/23
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By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS

www.BurnTheFat.com

You’ve probably seen the advertisements:

“Drink wu long tea and lose a jeans size every 7 days!”…

“Burn 20 lbs of fat in 30 days with wu long tea!” …

Maybe you even watched Oprah a few years ago when Dr. Perricone said that switching your coffee for green tea would help you take off the pounds.

You may have also read or watched countless news stories which say how healthy it is to drink green tea.

Fat Burners: The Unadulterated Truth

by Tom Venuto - updated 2009/8/23
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By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS

www.BurnTheFat.com

Fat burner supplements are advertised everywhere these days - on the internet, in magazines and even on TV. The ads almost always feature a very lean fitness model or bodybuilder and claim that these products, usually pills, were the secret to their six pack abs and very low body fat levels. Some of these ads suggest that the only way to get as lean as the "hot bodies" you see in the ads is by taking their "miracle pills" and that proper nutrition and exercise alone is not enough.

Alzheimer's Disease Takes Early Toll of Memory Efficiency

by HeWeHap Health Reporters - updated 2009/8/10
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When your phone can remember all your favourite numbers, and your computer all the many details of daily life, to a large extent we no longer need to ourselves remember as many items as we used to. We just need to know how to find them.

Some things though - like where you live and what your car (or partner) look like, are vitally important. And these are often lost in the later stages of Alzheimer’s disease.

Memory Loss Happens Early in Alzheimer’s

by HeWeHap Health Reporters - posted 2009/8/10
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Some of us are old enough to remember when calculators first appeared. Many people decried the loss of mental arithmetic skills that were entailed in the constant use of those now-ubiquitous devices. In the same way, when your phone can remember all your favourite numbers, and your computer all the many details of daily life, to a large extent we no longer need to remember many things. We just need to know how to find them.

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