Damage Control For Holiday Eating"Accidents"
At this time of year, most people have gone to a holiday gathering and found themselves with a belly stuffed with far more calories than they would normally ever eat. Some feel little shame for [...]
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Gone Crazy About Food
Has the whole world gone crazy about food? Before you answer, consider this: Some people think that as long as you eat “clean”, you’ll lose weight and calories don’t matter. Some think that processed foods [...]
Is Junk Food as Addictive as Heroin?
The theory of food addiction is getting tons of press lately. It’s partly because of popular books like Fat, Sugar Salt, The End of Overeating, and a whole slew of earlier books about sugar addiction. [...]
Biggest Loser Fail: Season 8 Contestant Hospitalized
People ask me about The Biggest Loser all the time, but I don’t watch very much TV. Last nite I watched the biggest loser TV show for the first time ever (also the last), just [...]
Bad Science and Bad Journalism: A Book Review And Commentary on Mass Media
Ever since I launched the Burn The Fat blog, I promised that I would write health, fitness and nutrition book reviews. That was three and a half years ago and I haven’t written any yet. [...]
Exercise Won’t Make You Thin? (Why Time Magazine Owes the Fitness Industry a Big Fat Apology)
Does exercise help weight loss? According to Time Magazine, the answer is no. That's why at first I was tempted to title this article, “why John Cloud and the editors of Time magazine are idiots.” But then I thought that might be a bit harsh and decided to simply call for an apology and a correction for all the errors they made in their recent article, "Why exercise won’t make you thin."
Motivation and Training Environment: Does Where You Work Out Matter?
Motivation week continues today at the Burn The Fat Blog with a great excerpt from an interview I recently did with Jim Katsoulis. Jim is a hypnotherapist, NLP practitioner and fitness coach who specializes in [...]
The"Fitness Skeptic"Interviews Tom Venuto
Coach Jamie Hale is a sports conditioning specialist, fitness author, independent researcher and nutrition consultant. His scientific and critical thinking approach has led him to be nicknamed, “The fitness skeptic”, as he is well known [...]
The Truth About Fat Burners And Hydroxycut
The United States Food And Drug Administration (FDA) has warned dieters and bodybuilders to “immediately” stop taking the weight loss diet pill Hydroxycut, citing 23 reports linking the supplement to liver damage and the death [...]
The Most Effective Motivational Force: How To Stick With Any Diet or Fitness Program
Do you easily stick with your nutrition plan or do you give in to unplanned cheating and frequent excesses? Do you have near-perfect gym attendance or do you often skip workouts? When you do workout, [...]