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Body Chemistry
Shannon

Burning Body Fat will Drive You to Drink!

Burning body fat is a process that requires the body to hydrate stored fat to move it out! This is why burning body fat is about size reduction and NOT about weight reduction. When the body wants to use your fat stores for energy, it gets you to drink…and drink…and drink. This is the under

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Body Chemistry
Shannon

Ben Greenfield on “Why You Are Not Losing Fat…”

This article by Ben Greenfield is chockful of ‘aha’ moments for why you might be holding onto excess body fat even though you are exercising and eating good foods.   “Ben Greenfield is a biohacker, human body and brain performance coach, ex-bodybuilder, Ironman triathlete, professional Spartan athlete, anti-aging consultant, speaker and author of the New

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Dieting Misconceptions
Shannon

The Misconception Around Dieting

The average 20-33 year old male in 1944 consumed approximately 700 calories more per day than our present-day males of the same age. It was the quality of food rather than the quantity of food that made up those extra calories. Whole eggs, butter and cream were preferred over egg whites, margarine and dessert toppings. 

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Body Chemistry
Shannon

Weight Loss vs Fat Loss

Here’s an excellent article on the difference between weight loss and fat loss. It looks at thinking beyond the dreaded scale when measuring your progress towards good health and looking your best.

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Body Chemistry
Shannon

Where Did Those Two Pounds Come From?

It’s summer and the healthy thing for the body to do is sweat.  Sweating is the body’s natural response to cool itself down.  The body produces water, transfers the heat to the water and moves the heated water out of the body.  The body uses this recipe to make sweat: 2 hydrogen molecules mixed with

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Eating
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Skipping Meals vs. Fasting

Skipping meals, the unintentional loss of calories normally consumed during a typical meal hour, is an unhealthy habit our society has gotten into.  Busy schedules, lunch hour meetings, and/or no time to prepare a lunch the night before is the perfect excuse for just not eating between breakfast and the dinner hour.  Fasting, on the

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Body Chemistry
Shannon

Fat Burning 101

Dieting is tough! Not only do we often fail at it, but more times than not, it leaves us in a worse situation than when we started.  Fat burning, on the other hand, is like training for a 5 km race.  Once the training period is over, the act of running (like fat burning) becomes

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