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My personal fat loss experience and forthcoming book

By on 5 March 2010 in Exercise and Activity, Healthy Eating, Low-Carbohydrate, Men's Health, Weight Loss, Women's Health

I have since last June been undertaking a bit of a personal experiment. Over couple of years I’d found I’d somehow managed to accumulate some added fat to my midriff. At 43, I suppose ‘middle-aged’ spread might have had something to do with it. But also when I looked at my diet with as much […]

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Higher protein diet plus resistance exercise aids weight and fat loss in type 2 diabetics

By on 16 February 2010 in Diabetes/Metabolic Syndrome, Exercise and Activity, Food and Medical Politics, Healthy Eating, Low-Carbohydrate, Unhealthy Eating!, Weight Loss

Where weight and fat loss is concerned, I favour a relatively low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet on the basis that such diets generally outperform low-fat, carb-rich diets traditionally advocated for weight loss. A lower-carb diet I think may have particular advantages for diabetics because, well, they have difficulty handling carbohydrate as a result of impaired insulin function […]

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Low-carb diet pitted against low-fat PLUS medication (low-carb still wins)

By on 26 January 2010 in Healthy Eating, Unhealthy Eating!, Weight Loss

I suspect there’s always going to be a raging debate about the best way to go about losing weight. From a dietary perspective, a myriad of suggested approaches exist, though within these the two most popular and well-known ‘diets’ are those low in carbohydrate and fat respectively. Both of these approaches have their advocates. I’m […]

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