Just Burning Calories Does NOT Cause Long-Term Weight Loss

What if I told you that most exercise does not cause long term weight loss? This is a secret the fitness industry of gadgets, DVDs, and commercial fitness clubs don’t want you to know.  In their defense though, few of them may understand just how wrong they are and why.  Let’s start with a simple […]

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Fat Loss: What Happens & How It Works (Part 1)

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Fat loss is the ever-elusive conquest of anyone and everyone who is into health and fitness. Observationally I also think it is one of the most misunderstood and challenging topics for most people to tackle due to the sheer amount of miss-information out there with the added perpetuated myths we have all heard when embarking […]

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The Biology of Fat Loss Mechanics – Part 2

By Roland Pankewich If you have read the first installment (Read Part 1 Here) you were introduced to the idea that fat loss is a catabolic process which must be contextually supported if your goal is to lower your body fat percentage. We also mentioned that the mitochondria in our cells are the only cellular […]

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How High Body-Fat Makes You Fatter

The problem with body fat is that when you start to accumulate it in large quantities (more than 20lbs), it actually changes your physiology and makes it harder to get rid of.  The more overweight you are, the more likely you are to gain even more fat because adipose tissue in abundance makes you fatter! […]

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Gut Health: Make or Break Your Body Composition… & Your Health!

Did you know that your body is approximately 90% bacteria and only 10% human? From birth to death, our gut health is affected by various environmental factors. New cutting-edge research suggests that simple changes in gut bacteria may actually lead to drastic weight gain and increase markers of disease! Here’s what you need to know to be on the right side of gut health for improved wellness and body composition…

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Ghrelin: The “Bad” Hunger Hormone

Part 2 of good cop versus bad cop in the fat loss hunger wars – this time we’ll focus on the ‘bad’ hunger hormone ‘ghrelin’. Ghrelin is the offender causing you to feel so ravenous that you fall spectacularly off the wagon and hammer down enough food in one sitting to feed a small family! Read more about ghrelin here, along with some strategies you can use to keep it at bay and achieve success on your diet…

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Calorie Shifting for Improved Body Composition?

Linear dieting vs. cyclical dieting for maximum long-term fat loss…? Sure you might have an opinion, but what does the research say? MI40 Science Editor Rudy Mawer has done the legwork so you don’t have to…

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Leptin: How Your Body Fat Influences Appetite

When starting a diet, have you ever wondered why exactly hunger and cravings suddenly sky rocket? Obviously a reduced food intake ‘leads’ to these sensations, but the actual root cause can be attributed to two key hunger hormones, the first of which MI40 Science Editor Rudy Mawer will break down for us here…

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