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How Does Intermittent Fasting Affect Carb Loading?

It’s time to look at another Skribit question and give a quick answer. The question I’m answering today is:
Every other day fasting and its impact on how often to “carb load” when on a ketogenic diet.
I’m going to go ahead and acknowledge that I don’t carb load, so my answer isn’t from an “insider’s [...]

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Free Report from Fitness Spotlight

Mike and I dropped a free report yesterday on Fitness Spotlight: Top Ten Things The Health and Fitness Industry Does Not Want You To Know. Check it out and subscribe while you’re there.

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What Does “Modern Forager” Mean? How Did I Come Up With That Name?

I’ve received a couple comments lately referring to how the content on the website doesn’t reflect actually going out and foraging for food. That much is true. So I thought I’d give a brief story of how I arrived at the name Modern Forager and what that name reflects.
When my site [...]

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Picking the Right Tool for the Job, Part 1: GPP vs SPP

The wrong tool for the job at hand. Photo courtesy of Individual Thought
As I mentioned last Thursday, I attended a CrossFit certification this past weekend. I’m going to post some thoughts and notes here soon, but first I wanted to touch on a conversation that I had with a trainer (not one of [...]

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Introducing….The Best of the Web for Health and Fitness Blogs, Articles, News, Research and more…

Today, Mike O’Donnell of The IF Life and I launched a new project to enhance the health and fitness online community. It’s called Fitness Spotlight.
Fitness Spotlight is a site dedicated to giving you even more information on all things health and fitness from around the internet. We decided that with all the information that [...]

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Digging Up An Awesome Oldie - DeVany/Staley Conversation

I started getting lots of hits on an old interview between Charles Staley and Arthur DeVany yesterday, an interview that I had forgotten about. There’s lots of good information in there. Here’s the interview along with some thoughts I had on it.

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Pondering Energy Drinks and The Fatigue of a Nation

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This past weekend, I passed a gas station and saw a sign on the front that said “Try our new Shockwave Energy Coffee.” Huh? Energy Coffee? What does that make regular coffee? And all these years I’ve been thinking people drank coffee for the energy provided by the [...]

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Get Up, Stand Up - Does Moving About Slow Aging?

I doubt I really need to preach the virtues of activity to anyone here, but here’s a look at how Sedentary Lifestyles Associated With Accelerated Aging Process.
Telomere length decreased with age, with an average loss of 21 nucleotides (structural units) per year. Men and women who were less physically active in their leisure time had [...]

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Ten Things To Remember In The New Year

Given that the calendar just ticked over to January 1st, 2008, there are a lot of resolutions to eat better and lose weight. Here are ten things to remember as you embark on your health journey.

Junk food doesn’t exist; there is junk and there is food.
Similarly, real food has no nutrition label. Food [...]

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A Fine Example of Sports Fan Idiocy

Check out this column from my local paper. Let me set the stage for you. West Virginia’s kicker missed two field goals in a loss to Pittsburgh that cost his team a chance to play for the national championship. So what did some of the fans do?
The damage vandals did to his [...]

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