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Contrary to the nutrition "wisdom" most of us get from the media and food packaging, not all fat is bad for you. In fact, your body needs certain amount of fat to nourish cells, supply essential fatty acids, and to trigger the release of a hormone that signals your brain that you are full. Fat also slows down the conversion of carbohydrates into glucose, feeding your brain a study flow of glucose, not sudden rushes that triggers an excess insulin response. Most important is eating the right kind of fat is the key to boosting your immune system and staying healthy. That's because certain fats provide linoleic acid, the raw material that your body needs to produce microhormones called eicosanoids. The body of knowledge about eicosanoids is a relatively new, exciting and ever expanding area of scientific research. Think of eicosanoids as master control hormones that regulate many of your body's biological functions, including other hormones such as insulin and glu...

Be honest about the type of program your lifestyle will allow you to partake in. Fitness is an evolution so where you are in life now may not be where you are down the line, but you must be able to manage your weight loss program within the current boundaries that your life provides. For instance, if you a re a single mother with two small children at home you probably are not going to stick to a ninety day program where you have to eat brussel sprout and cabbage soup at each meal while exercising sixty minutes two times each day. It's just not sustainable. Every program has it's nutrition and exercise requirements so it's up to you to make sure that those requirements will challenge you to improve but that also fit into your current living arrangement. The most effective program in the world is useless if you don't do it. I know this first-hand. I've has women sign-up for my Body Fat Meltdown weight loss program and proceed to lose twenty-four pounds in the fir...

Most people who read my articles and e-books know me as a science guy who likes to quote studies and apply research to everyday problems such as weight loss, bodybuilding, and other health/fitness related topics. However, sometimes you have to step back from the science and look at the big picture to help bring people back into focus, so they can see the forest for the trees, so to speak. For most people reading this article, finding an effective diet that works most of the time must seem as complicated as nuclear physics. It's not, but there are a bewildering number of choices for diets out there. High fat or no fat? High carbohydrate or no carbohydrate? Low protein or high protein? To make matters worse, there are a million variations and combinations to the above diet scenarios to add to the confusion. It seems endless and causes many people to throw up their hands in frustration and give up. In this article I will attempt to change all that. There are some general guidelin...