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Before & After Fitness Transformations Show You How Long It Really Takes To Build Muscle & Lose Fat

Filed Under: Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements, Weight/Fat Loss

Before & After Fitness Transformations Show You How Long It Really Takes To Build Muscle & Lose Fat
boredpanda smiley girl before and after exercise program


The Struggle Is Real:
Anyone who’s ever had a little extra fat can relate to the struggle to lose it.

-Including all the different choices you have to make in both nutrition and exercise.

Because, the more factors you can stack in your favor, the better.

Well, BoredPanda’s Šarūnė Mac compiled a huge gallery of Weight-Loss Winners.

It’s worth a look, paying special attention to some of the claimed-timeframes for several of the results.

And so, we’ve picked-out a few of the more realistic examples for you…

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Strange Brew: Why Is Post-Drinking Munchies, or ‘The Aperitif Effect’ So Powerful?

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Mind/Brain, Nutrition, Stupid Health Tricks

Strange Brew: Why Is Post-Drinking Munchies, or ‘The Aperitif Effect’ So Powerful?
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Legacy Of Alcohol, The Ham-Fist Way:
Over time, we’ve tried to sing the praises of alcohol; from Beer BS to Hangover bro-science.

Along the way, we’ve discovered some strange contradictions, like: Thirst is often mistaken for Hunger, & Mars500 finding a great reason to control your salt-intake.

So in the spirit of Weird, !SCIENCE! brings us another “WTF, Mother Nature?!!”

That contradiction starts with our bizarre need to eat after Animal House-level symphonies of drinking…

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Happy Accident: Mission To Mars Discovers Trick To Help You Control Appetite & Lose Weight

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Nutrition, Weight/Fat Loss

Happy Accident: Mission To Mars Discovers Trick To Help You Control Appetite & Lose Weight
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Weight-Loss Is Only 140 Million Miles Away:
So science usually has set ideas about the way things work. And every once in awhile, those assumptions will be proved wrong.

Most of the time it happens out of a very weird discovery or coincidence. -And this time is no different.

This diet-revelation started with the “Oh crap, we have to rescue Matt Damon again,”-level idea of actually sending people to Mars.

And on that mission, one of the strangest things the rocket-scientists had to do was manage Water…

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Exercise Less, Lose More. Whaaaa…? Danish Study Discovers The Secret Freakonomics Of Fat

Filed Under: Exercise, Featured, Weight/Fat Loss

Exercise Less, Lose More. Whaaaa…? Danish Study Discovers The Secret Freakonomics Of Fat
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Oh God, This Sounds Like An Infomercial.:
We’ve told you before that Nutrition is king for losing fat or weight.

We’ve also told you that the slow-carb diets are the ones that pay the greatest returns over time, too.

And we’ve also recruited cast-iron triathletes and anorexic movie-stars to help convince you that you cannot out-exercise bad nutrition.

Well, the Danes came up with a neat footer to the one that says you can exercise too much,

And somehow, it says you may need less exercise than you ever thought…

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Thick Thighs Save Lives Not Just Amanda Lee’s Favorite Cheeky Retort. Because: Watch Out Men! -Your Belly Fat Is Officially The Most Unhealthy Type

Filed Under: Disease, Nutrition, Weight/Fat Loss

Thick Thighs Save Lives Not Just Amanda Lee’s Favorite Cheeky Retort. Because: Watch Out Men! -Your Belly Fat Is Officially The Most Unhealthy Type
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Body-Type Guesswork Might Have Been Right:
Apparently, “Thick Thighs Save Lives”, isn’t just the (kinda-NSFW) Instagram-stunner’s favorite cheeky retort. -It’s actually true.

So: Over time people have gone from the days of Titian when fat was rad, because it meant you actually had food, to something less desirable today.

And on that road, people started to describe horoscope-like body-types, such as Apples or Pears, to guess their potential health issues.

New research is showing their ideas were good; especially about men. And it all comes down to what you can see, versus what you can’t…

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Video: Check Out People Are Awesome’s Fitness Superheroes

Filed Under: Exercise, Video

Video: Check Out People Are Awesome’s Fitness Superheroes


 
There Goes My Hero, Watch Him As He Goes…:
Well now that Copa America Centenario and Euro Cup 2016 are over, thus depriving us of the genius of Messi and Antoine Greizmann.

And your fix of superhumanism at the Rio Olympics is still a few weeks away,

Why not get your fitness motivation on and check out these more ordinary people still doing amazing stuff!…

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TEDx Video: The Queen Of Sleep On How To Rescue Your Brain & Why We All Need More Naps, Because: !SCIENCE!

Filed Under: Aging, Disease, Mind/Brain, Video

TEDx Video: The Queen Of Sleep On How To Rescue Your Brain & Why We All Need More Naps, Because: !SCIENCE!


 
Accidentally-Awesome Sleep Research That Will Change Your Life:
So, Dr. Sara Mednick had been struggling for a research topic when she found an interesting opportunity.

Her mentor had only studied what you’d call “normal” sleep that you have at night, but not at other times.

And that’s where she found Gold! As she describes in this video, everything on Earth goes through cycles in time, and we’d be smart to remember that.

-Which is where her scientific study comes in, because largely: We Don’t. And there are real downsides to that…

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Body Fat Study Further Reduces Importance of BMI, Low-Carb Tape-Measure Sales Skyrocket

Filed Under: Disease, Exercise, Nutrition, Weight/Fat Loss

Body Fat Study Further Reduces Importance of BMI, Low-Carb Tape-Measure Sales Skyrocket
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An Interesting Measurement -Of The Wrong Thing:
For quite awhile, BMI has been used as an indicator of obesity.

And for most of that time it’s been considered as good as any measure out there.

But a recent study by 2 universities in Canada is trying to put the final punctuation-mark on many people’s recent critiques of its shortcomings.

And they just might have succeeded…

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Video: The French Were Right Again. -Or: One Of Your Eating Habits May Be Hurting You More Than You Think

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Nutrition, Video, Weight/Fat Loss

Video: The French Were Right Again. -Or: One Of Your Eating Habits May Be Hurting You More Than You Think


 
Multiply Paula Deen and Wilford Brimley To The Power Of Ricky Bobby:
In this video, DNews tackles an oddly-common eating habit that might seem harmless at-first; however, it’s anything-but.

The problem is there may be so many different influences causing it, it’s very hard to catch & change.

Whether it’s sibling-rivalry, anxiety, peer-pressure, busy workdays, or just plain-old stress, it turns out Eating Too Fast can really affect your health for the worse. And God help me for giving those damn hipster foodies more ammunition…

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Exercise In A Bottle: Tricky Enzyme Can Force Bodyfat To Self-Regulate, Burn Calories, & Get You Into Your Old Clothes Again

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech, Disease, Exercise, Weight/Fat Loss

Exercise In A Bottle: Tricky Enzyme Can Force Bodyfat To Self-Regulate, Burn Calories, & Get You Into Your Old Clothes Again
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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…

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