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Is Your Weight Controlled by Calories or Insulin?
What really matters for weight loss? Calories in and calories out, or is our body weight carefully regulated by hormones, like the fat-storing hormone insulin? In this presentation from the 2015 LCHF...
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Konvincing Kids that Kounting Kalories is Kooky
4.7 out of 5 stars5 star78%4 star13%3 star8%2 star0%1 star0%23 ratings1,676 viewsIs weight loss all about counting calories? No, of course not. Here’s a short video on why it’s not about calories....
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Defense of the Insulin-Carbohydrate Model Redux: A Response to Kevin Hall
Did the recent Kevin Hall study refute or strengthen the insulin–carbohydrate model of obesity? Here’s another excellent perspective, from Harvard nutrition professor Dr. David Ludwig.Far from...
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How to Fix Your Broken Metabolism by Doing the Exact Opposite
We saw recently with the Biggest Loser study that basal metabolism plummets when you lose weight with calorie reduction. As contestants lose weight, they burn a lot less energy – up to 800 calories per...
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New US Nutrition Labels Now Include Added Sugars – Here’s What’s Wrong With Them
The US just had a major redesign of the nutrition labels on food packages. There is some good news – like the new line about “added sugars”. But in some ways this change is a step backwards.Check out...
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Why The First Law of Thermodynamics is Utterly Irrelevant
There are many adherents to the Calories In/ Calories Out (CICO) theory that constantly bleat about “It all comes down to the First Law of Thermodynamics”. The First Law of Thermodynamics refers to a...
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Do You Have to Count Calories to Lose Weight?
4.8 out of 5 stars5 star88%4 star3%3 star7%2 star0%1 star0%26 ratings2610:22 Do you have to count calories to lose weight? No, of course not. But WHY is the answer no, and WHY do most scientists and...
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Should Women Really Fast?
There are tons of questions about intermittent fasting, like theseShould I take supplements when fasting?Can fasting have a negative effect on women?Dr. Jason Fung is one of the world’s leading experts...
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Is Obesity Caused by Too Much Insulin?
4.9 out of 5 stars5 star90%4 star7%3 star2%2 star0%1 star0%41 ratings4125:27 Is obesity mainly caused by the fat storing hormone insulin? And if so, why do many people still not agree at all?As the...
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What To Do Instead of Counting Calories
4.9 out of 5 stars5 star93%4 star4%3 star2%2 star0%1 star0%47 ratings4716:02 Why is counting calories useless? And what should one do instead to lose weight?Jason Fung explains it in a simple way in...
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Experts: Calories Are NOT All Equal
Is a calorie from soda equal to a calorie from olive oil? Certainly not, and many experts now agree:TIME: You Asked: Are All Calories Created Equal?Being off by just 100 calories a day could add up to...
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Do You Have to Count Calories to Lose Weight?
4.8 out of 5 stars5 star89%4 star3%3 star3%2 star0%1 star3%59 ratings2,133 viewsDo you have to count calories to lose weight? No, of course not. But WHY is the answer no, and WHY do most scientists...
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New Study: Even a Liberal 130 g/Day Low-Carb Diet Beats Calorie Restriction...
Even a very “liberal” low-carb diet with 130 grams of carbs per day still beats a calorie restricted diet for controlling blood glucose in type 2 diabetes. This according to a new study.Clinical...
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What to Do Instead of Counting Calories?
4.8 out of 5 stars5 star90%4 star3%3 star1%2 star1%1 star3%64 ratings2,739 viewsMost people know that counting calories doesn’t really work. But what should you do instead then, to lose weight? Jason...
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The Common Currency in Our Bodies Is Not Calories – Guess What It Is?
Currency (money) is useful because it represents mutually agreed upon means of measurement and exchange. That is, if we all accept American dollars as our currency of exchange, then items as disparate...
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The Top Videos About Calories
“Calories in, calories out” – do we really get fat because we eat too many calories? Is it useful to count them? And if it’s not very useful to care about calories, then what exactly determines weight...
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Isn’t Weight Loss All About Calories?
4.6 out of 5 stars5 star65%4 star26%3 star8%2 star0%1 star0%23 ratings2303:14 Isn’t weight loss all about counting calories? That’s what most people believe, but what do some of the top low-carb...
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The Calorie Debacle
Eat Less. Cut your calories. Watch your portion size. Those form the foundation of conventional weight loss advice over the last 50 years. And it’s been an utter disaster, perhaps only topped by the...
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Lose Weight on Twinkies? Big Soda‘s Strategy to Make Us Believe That It Is...
Coca-Cola loves to promote the Calories In/ Calories Out (CICO) model. As one of the leading purveyors of sugar sweetened beverages, it constitutes a significant portion of the added sugars in the...
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Why Fasting Is More Effective Than Calorie Counting
Perhaps one of the most common questions we get is what the difference is between calorie restriction and fasting. Many calorie enthusiasts say that fasting works, but only because it restricts...
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