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Speed Eating, The Chinese Buffet And Fat Loss:
Diet Advice Your Mom Was Right About All Along
 A study just published in the journal Obesity revealed that thin people eat very differently than heavy people at all-you-can-eat buffet restaurants. Researcher Brian Wansink and his team from the Cornell University Food and Brand Laboratory observed diners at 11 different Chinese buffet restaurants across the US. What they discovered scientifically confirms that your mom's diet advice was right all along...
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Avoid This Killer Weight Re-Gain Mistake
 If you want to burn off fat and keep it off for good, there are a few things you absolutely must do, and a new study from Wake Forest University has just uncovered another one. In this new study, just published in the latest issue of the prestigious journal, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, researchers discovered one major mistake most exercisers are making which is directly correlated to weight regain. It's a tricky bugger, because usually, you don't even realize it's happening to you, and it happens to almost everyone...
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Listen to Maintainers, Not to Losers:
5 secrets to keeping the weight off for good
 I have very little interest in all the media-hyped stories of dramatic, rapid losses of body weight you hear about these days “Big losers” don’t impress me, for numerous reasons. For example, weight is not fat. “Weight” could be composed of mostly lean tissue, or it could be mostly water weight. In fact, I would go a step further and point out that rapid loss of bodyweight correlates very highly with a greater chance of relapse, weight re-gain and long term failure. So what does impress me? What gets my attention? I pay attention to maintainers - the people who have held a steaady ideal weight for over a year… preferably even 2-5 years or more. Here's why...
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How Liquid Calories May Be Making You Fat!
 So far, at least 7 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…
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Wu Long Tea And Green Tea Scam Warning!
 You’ve probably seen the ads: “Burn 20 lbs of fat in 30 days with wu long tea!” … Maybe you saw Dr. Perricone on Oprah say that switching coffee for green tea would help you take off the pounds. You may have also read or watched news stories which said how healthy it is to drink green tea. But what if I told you that most of the weight loss claims for green tea were total BS, based on misreporting of the research? If you’ve bought green tea based on the claim that it causes large reductions in body fat, then you've been scammed...
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The truth about fish oil and fat loss
 Unless you’ve been living under a rock somewhere, you’ve probably heard about the health benefits of eating fatty fish or taking fish oil supplements. Well, it looks like you might be able to add fat loss to that list. The biologically active ingredients that make fatty fish so beneficial are are the long chain omega-3 (n-3) fatty acids, EPA and DHA. At least a half a dozen human studies suggest that these omega-3 fatty acids found in fish may help you lose more fat. However, the fat loss benefit is not as much as some people want you to believe…
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Tom Venuto's Holiday Survival Guide
 My mom makes the most amazing Christmas cake in the world; it’s been a tradition in our family for as long as I can remember. Now let me tell you, as a bodybuilder, I have a lot of discipline. But when that moist, delicious, red and green, Jell-O- filled, whipped-cream covered cake is sitting on the table in front of me on December 25th, it takes every ounce of my willpower to keep from calling it a “VERY high carb day” and devouring numerous very large slices.
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Alcohol: Why Some People Can Drink Without Getting 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. Whether moderate drinking is healthy has also been a subject of controversy. Many studies show that cardiovascular health benefits are associated with moderate beer or wine drinking (which has been of particular interest lately with reservatrol in the news so much), while other studies show improved insulin sensitivity. Some experts however, say that alcohol has no place in a fitness lifestyle.
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How To Use Super-Sizing, Portion Distortion And Dietary Displacement To Your Advantage
 Ever since the independent film, Super Size Me was released, research on the relationship between increasing obesity and increasing portion sizes has skyrocketed and the results have been virtually unanimous. There have been numerous well-designed studies published just in the last several years which confirmed exactly what we suspected (and much of what Super-Size-Me suggested)...
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