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You’re working hard.
Watching your Diet, hitting the gym…hopefully you’re following Eat Stop Eat.
And, lucky you, you’re losing body fat.
But..have you ever wondered…where exactly does it go when you ‘lose it’?
Firstly, it’s not actually ‘lost’ as much as it’s used as an energy source to fuel your metabolism.  After all, your body fat is really an ‘energy reserve’ to be tapped into when energy from food sources is low. (So the saying ‘burning fat’ is actually correct!)
During this process your fat is used to synthesize high energy molecules (like ATP) the very molecules that fuel your metabolic rate, and during this process is your body fat is broken down into carbon dioxide and water.
The water is lost in sweat, urine, feces and exhaled air, while the carbon dioxide is exhaled.
So…now you know
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Original post by Brad Pilon

After winning “Who is your favorite health/fitness blogger?” at Health Habits I was approached and asked whether I wanted to join the Hive Health Media network. After reading the terms, and looking at some of the other blogs in the network, I thought I wouldn’t have anything to lose by at least giving it a trial run for a few months.
This will serve to give my site and my articles some extra exposure. In return, I’ll keep an eye out for share-worthy material on the other blogs in the network and promote it (via Twitter, FB, etc.) if I find something good. That’s it. Nothing else changes.
A Few Good Reads
I’ve come across quite a few good reads this last week that I thought I’d share.
1. “Why Making Dinner is a Good Idea.” Jonah Lehrer writes one of my favorite blogs. This article is about evolution, dopamine and the curse of […]

Original post by noreply@blogger.com (Martin Berkhan)

Upfront disclaimer: stress is my big issue. I have most everything about my life pretty well dialed in, but I just don’t handle stress the way I probably should (or the way I tell other people they should).
Most people have the vague notion that meditation is good, usually in a psychological, somehow “not physical” manner. It reduces stress. It’s relaxing. Well, these emotional mindstates have physical or neurological corollaries. You aren’t “just stressed,” as if stress is some concept floating there independent of physiology. Chemicals and hormones induce these states, and meditation can affect their secretion and production.

There’s also compelling evidence for the negating effect of meditation on certain marks of aging. This study found that, when compared to controls, trained Buddhist meditators had enhanced cortical thickness. Older meditation experts displayed the most dramatic differences, suggesting that “meditation might offset age-related cortical thinning.” A new study digs even deeper. Subjects […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

5 cycles of:
10 Russian Lunges (5 each leg)
8 Explosive Clapping Pushups
5 Explosive Pullups
5 Weight Tosses

How-to:
Warmup: 30 second Grok Squat, 10 straight leg swings (each leg, each direction: forward/back/lateral).
In today’s elite athletes, explosive power makes the difference. Running sprints, either as the main event or in a basketball or football game, requires power. A successful shot put is a hip-centric power move. A devastating uppercut only devastates if there’s significant power behind it. But these men and women fusing strength and speed together aren’t doing anything new; the capacity for explosiveness is millions of years old. It’s encoded in all of our DNA. You don’t have to be an elite athlete to focus on both strength and speed.
Today’s WOW is all about explosiveness. You’ll be moving weight (be it bodyweight, or supplementary weight held in your hands or strapped to your back) as […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

<p>The basis of Tabata Training is 4 minutes of intense interval training/circuit training. What you are doing is taking an exercise we'll use sprints as an example here.</p>
<p>Sprint as hard as you can for <strong>20 seconds</strong></p>
<p>Walk for <strong>10 seconds</strong></p>
<p>Repeat 7 more times for a total of <strong>8 sets</strong>.</p>
<p>So what you have is a total of <strong>4 minutes of workout time</strong>.</p>
<p>Tabata Training can be done with a number of different exercises the idea is to use an exercise that gets the whole body involved or at least the major muscle groups.Tabata Training can be done with Barbells, Dumbells, Kettlebells or just Bodyweight exercises. I'll give you some other exercises and routines to try in a minute but first let me give you some background and how Tabatas work.</p>
<p>Tabata Training was developed by Izumi Tabata (imagine that) at the National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Tokyo, Japan. They did a study […]

Original post by WP-AutoBlog Import

The name says it all. Stuffing, when made with the traditional loaf of bread, is a heavy addition to the holiday table that can leave you feeling, well, stuffed. As if the table weren’t already collapsing under the weight of a giant bird and a half-dozen side-dishes, tradition demands that a big dish of what is essentially just a loaf of bread cut up into pieces, be included, too. Well, phooey on tradition. We’re not saying that stuffing shouldn’t be served at all, we’re just saying, why limit yourself to stuffing made with bread?
The attributes that make stuffing so popular – a mild, comforting flavor and rich, indulgent texture – can be achieved with all sorts of different ingredients. Our favorite combination this holiday season is a buttery blend of cauliflower, mushrooms and leeks baked until soft and caramelized and covered with an intensely nutty blend of hazelnuts and fresh […]

Original post by Worker Bee

It’s time for another healthy dose of inspiration from Mark’s Daily Apple readers that took control of their health and turned their lives around. Many thanks to Jason, Marti and Dan for sharing their stories with the community. If you have your own story and pics to share shoot me a line here. Happy Friday, everyone!
Hey there Mark!!!
Well for me it starts around Christmas of 2009. I was topping the scales at 339 lbs, I had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes a few years earlier and taking several medications to help control it. Despite eating like the dieticians recommended I kept putting on more weight. I stayed sick constantly, never felt like doing anything and was just in generally bad health and I was only 36. I was so disgusted with myself when my mom gave me some money at Christmas to buy some clothes and I couldn’t find […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

All across the country, people are kicking off their shoes and braving streets strewn with broken glass and rusty nails that house tetanospasmin-producing Clostridium tetani, and heaped with endless piles of toxic dog poop. They somehow manage to traverse sidewalks that crumble underfoot at the slightest touch, throwing a person off balance and putting the ankle at severe risk of permanent injury. Podiatrists’ waiting lists grow along with their bank balances with the endless parade of hobbling barefooters nursing crippling foot injuries; they laugh as their coffers fill.
And yet, despite these confirmed dangers and despite the warnings from esteemed experts, the barefoot revolution continues to grow. It’s pretty remarkable. The recent New York Marathon featured more barefooters than ever before, according to organizers, and the Barefoot Runners Society has seen its membership double since 2009. Purely anecdotally, whenever I’m out hiking, I see more and more folks going in Vibrams […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

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Original post by Brad Pilon