Thanks to our modern food environment, we have over-complicated food to the point of creating mass confusion over how to eat. Our ancestors (from Australopithecus to just a couple generations ago) didn’t have nutrition labels on their food and…
Impact of Water Intake on Weight Loss As previously discussed, water intake is vital but can also be done to excess. When it comes to weight loss (fat loss), though, does water intake make a difference? Can increased water intake…
Fasting for fat loss While many regard fasting as a difficult challenge, it has been a normal part of the human experience for millennia and is a time-honored tradition among virtually all major religions of the world. Part of the…
Fat Loss 101 – Understanding the Different Types of Body Fat Few things in this world garner as much collective agreement as the recognition that excess body fat is detrimental to health. In fact, body fat is the target of…
Which is Worse – Low Muscle Mass or High Fat Mass? When talking about body composition and metabolic health, much attention is directed at reducing body weight as the primary indicator of progress. Study after study uses the Body Mass…
Fat Adaptation and it’s Critical Role in Weight Loss There are basically two fuels that can be utilized by the human body for energy: carbohydrates and fat. The vast majority of people are routinely utilizing carbohydrates as their fuel and…
What Happens to your Metabolism when you Restrict Calories? Wouldn’t it be great if losing weight was simply a function of decreasing how many calories you ate? Everyone wants to manipulate calories to control their weight just like dollars determine…
More Problems with Calorie Counting While many people are obsessed with counting calories in an attempt to lose weight, it’s clear that a strict Calories In Calories Out (CICO) model is not as helpful as we would like to believe.…
Calories, part 1: Problems with Calorie Counting for Weight Loss We’ve been taught since middle school health class that 1 pound of fat equals 3,500 Calories and, therefore, creating a Calorie deficit of 500 Calories per day through diet and/or…
GLP-1 Agonists — The New Weight Loss Drugs Another medication lauded for its potential as a weight loss drug was approved last month, called tirzepatide. It is an injectable medication, to be given once weekly, and is approved for use…
