Mental health and why weight problems start with your thoughts.
All of the weight loss programs out there are useless without one basic thing- mental health. Losing weight, or making any major change...
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Dan Connors
Sep 24, 20205 min read
Fasting- can literally starving yourself break the obesity code?
The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting- Jason Fung (2016) The Obesity...
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Dan Connors
Sep 23, 20204 min read
Take the chicken test- or are ya chicken?
Chicken is one of the most popular foods there is. It's great for the fast-food giants like KFC, Popeyes, and Chick-Fil-A. It's a...
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Dan Connors
Sep 22, 20205 min read
The $71 Billion dollar photo and the diet industry
Every year on January 1, Americans of a certain girth make new year's resolutions to take off some of the extra pounds they carried the...
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Dan Connors
Sep 20, 20204 min read
Drugs, side effects, and weight gain
So far on this journey I've presented that what you eat has a huge impact on your health and your weight. Watching both portions and...
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Dan Connors
Sep 17, 20204 min read
Test your egg knowledge with this little quiz.
Which came first? ___ The chicken ___ The egg 2. Which eggs are healthiest to eat? ___ White eggs ___ Brown eggs ___ Both...
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Dan Connors
Sep 16, 20204 min read
Cell phones and apps- nutrition tech could save us all.
Back in the old days, if you wanted to keep track of your weight or eating, all you had available was a scale and a piece of paper. Now...
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Dan Connors
Sep 13, 20204 min read
You can't work off those double cheeseburgers at the gym!
Regular physical exercise is essential to both physical and mental health. It helps to strengthen the heart and lungs, increases your...
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Dan Connors
Sep 11, 20205 min read
Potatoes, taters, spuds and yams
Without the potato, I wouldn't be here today, nor would many other Irish descendants. This little starchy tuber has become one of the...
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Dan Connors
Sep 8, 20204 min read
Fiber in foods- Your tongue is a big fat liar- listen to your gut!
"When you gradually add in nutrient-dense, fiber-rich foods, you simply stop feeling cravings. You run out of space in your belly for...
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Dan Connors
Sep 3, 20205 min read
It's 3 AM. Want a cookie? You know you do...
Have you ever gotten that feeling that you have to eat something naughty right away? This isn't the hunger you feel if you haven't eaten...
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Dan Connors
Sep 1, 20205 min read
Goals, goal setting, and still enjoying the now.
So today is the last day of my original weight loss challenge. I lost nearly 5% of my body weight in 30 days, which is a pretty good...
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Dan Connors
Aug 31, 20206 min read
How Not to Die
How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease Michael Greger with Gene Stone This book is...
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Dan Connors
Aug 28, 20205 min read
Confusion from the sea- what's okay to eat?
Nearly 70% of the earth's surface is covered by oceans. Much of the land surface is unsuitable for growing food, so seafood is a huge...
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Dan Connors
Aug 26, 20204 min read
Good fats? Bad fats? How do you tell the difference?
Once upon a time, eating fat was considered very, very bad. Food labels used the words "fat free" and "low fat" to entice consumers to...
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Dan Connors
Aug 25, 20202 min read
The set point and how it changes everything in weight management.
Have you ever tried losing weight and after some success discovered that going any lower starts to get very, very hard? No matter how...
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Dan Connors
Aug 22, 20203 min read
Wait just a damned minute- vaccines don't work on obese people?
A vaccine is being held out as our best hope for a return to normalcy from the Coronavirus epidemic. The theory goes that if enough...
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Dan Connors
Aug 20, 20203 min read
Obese canaries in the Pacific. What happened?
I was a big fan of the reboot of Hawaii Five-0 that recently ended after a ten year run. It was an exciting crime drama against a...
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Dan Connors
Aug 19, 20204 min read
Sugar- the other addictive white powder.
“In 2012 about 56 million people died throughout the world; 620,000 of them died due to human violence (war killed 120,000 people, and...
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Dan Connors
Aug 17, 20207 min read
Food Fix- a prescription for our sick food system.
Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet-One Bite at a Time Dr Mark Hyman, 2020 Weight loss tip #6-...
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