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Which is actually more important?:
With everyone starting their new fitness regimes & gym memberships, trying to lose the Winter fat,
The guys at ASAPScience thought it was a good time to check in with the studies on Exercise Vs. Nutrition.
Anyone whose ever worked out, or resisted the urge to eat Just. One. More. can relate & will probably find the discussion worthwhile.
While the guys don’t really get into details of nutrition like what types of…
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And now, another installment in our gym-tirade comes in the form of an insider-perspective.
From all the crazy people you might see in The Buff Dudes’ “Gym Wildlife” video, to some of the membership chicanery in Cracked’s sadly-accurate ad, and on to other topics like:
1) The sheer amount of dirt, germs & athlete’s-foot present; whether your gym cleans the equipment; or not….
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The Buff Dudes Channel on YouTube has a great set of videos on weightlifting and nutrition for muscle-gain.
Well now they can add comedy to their resume, too.
In a surprisingly-good BBC/Attenborough-Narration-style parody, the Buff Dudes go through all the weird, off-putting, and occasionally almost-normal “animals” you might run into if you ever dare set foot into gyms of varying seriousness…
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I don’t mean to jump on anyone’s New Year’s Resolutions, but this video is so dead-on it’s not just funny; it hurts.
Anyone who’s ever been to a commercial mega-gym or God-forbid, tried to get out of their membership agreement once you’ve decided to cancel, should really be able to relate…
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In a series of new studies, researchers are finding out that you personally are not the only thing responsible for your weight.
It just might be your parent’s fault too. -Or your genes anyway.
Study groups like the NIH, the University of Florida, U. Copenhagen, and others have shown that those genes are related to all kinds of things like:
Tendency to Overeat, Level of Taste-Sensitivity, Fullness-Hormone Production & Sensitivity, Fat-Storage and Food-Preference…
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One of the problems we have right now with obesity is that we are in an unprecedented time of caloric & sugary plenty in the developed world.
The reason that’s an issue is the human body evolved its metabolism to store fat, so you don’t die in a famine. -A thing we still used to have until very recently.
So now, where the body has not caught up to the times, science has. Because if scientists have their way, your present damnation of excess fat could strangely become your salvation…
A new meta-analysis review of the 70s-80s low-fat-diet recommendations of The McGovern Report is out.
And the controversial Zoe Harcombe’s team concludes the science behind the report was so undercooked and incomplete as to be false.
So because of that, they suggest the floodgates on high-fat diets have been opened, and it’s: F*** The Fettuccine, Full Butter Ahead!
-Or so it would seem…
Now, when you visualize something after hearing the word, “Superfood”, you probably imagine some impossibly-expensive super-bean from the north shore of Bali, the darkest part of the Amazon, the bleakest steppes of Maine blueberry-country, or Gwynneth Paltrow’s blog.
But the scientists at Rutgers had a different idea: What if you could make a superfood out of something common, that normal people eat every day without a second thought…
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