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John Stone is a bodybuilder and founder of a bodybuilding and fitness web site ( ). There he has provided pictures and stats of his remark...

Labels: BMI, body fat, body fat loss, John Stone experiment, waist-to-weight ratio

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In my previous blog post, I argued that one’s optimal weight may be the one that minimizes one’s waist-to-weight ratio. I built this argum...

Labels: BMI, body fat, body fat loss, fit2fat2fit experiment, waist-to-weight ratio

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There is a significant amount of empirical evidence suggesting that, for a given individual and under normal circumstances, the optimal we...

Labels: BMI, body fat, body fat loss, waist-to-weight ratio

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Do overweight folks live longer? It is not uncommon to see graphs like the one below, from the Med Journal Watch blog ( ), suggesting that, ...

Labels: BMI, body fat, body fat loss, longevity, mortality, multivariate analysis, muscle gain, muscle loss

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One of the biggest problems with modern diets rich in industrial foods is that they promote unnatural hunger patterns. For example, hunger c...

Labels: body fat, body fat loss, carbohydrates, hunger, insulin, refined carbs

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I wrote most of this post a while ago, and then forgot about it. The recent blogosphere storm of comments regarding cold-induced thermogene...

Labels: body fat loss, cold-induced thermogenesis, muscle loss, NEAT, strength training, supercompensation