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Overfeeding – Calories count, but don’t bother counting them
«The upper two sets of figures show Mr. A. Levanzin of Malta, Dr. Benedict’s celebrated subject, before and at the completion of his fast. ‘About two and a half years ago, while I was over-eating, obese, neurasthenic, pessimistic and with a shattered nervous system, I chanced to read. . . an article about fasting. It…
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What drives me to move
’I can’t tell you how wonderful it was’, she told me. ‘I walked into this room, and it was full of people like me. People who couldn’t sit still. People who had to move to think.’ Ken Robinson, The Element I do some temp work at a local school. Noticed a boy in the top…
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You want cognitive dissonance? I’ll give you cognitive dissonance!
The latest issue of Obesity offers both welcome rationality, important discussions and good chances of some decent hair pulling. It features an editorial by Jean-Pierre Flatt from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts. Flatt gives us an insight into some important misconceptions about obesity. He even made us a list of…
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What is the best exercise for fat loss? Part II
Energy expenditure – does it count? No current treatment for obesity reliably sustains weight loss, perhaps because compensatory metabolic processes resist the maintenance of the altered body weight. Leibel, Rosenbaum and Hirsch 1995 [1] The energy For some background reading on energy, this might be of interest. Most endurance exercise apparatus found in a gym…
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