Those who seek to lose excessive body fat are faced with a plethora of diet choices. Each diet has its advocates who proclaim that their diet is the most effective at promoting body fat loss. And there is rarely a time when another new fad diet surfaces, often promising to be the … [Read more...]
Intermittent Fasting: New information and its effects on adding muscle mass and losing body fat by Jerry Brainum
Although I covered the health effects of intermittent fasting (IF) in the October 2015 issue of Applied Metabolics, new information has been recently published about IF that is highly relevant to those who seek both body fat loss and added … [Read more...]
Dispatches from the nutritional and exercise science front by Jerry Brainum
Editorial note: Although this issue of Applied Metabolics initially appears to contain only one article, it actually contains 18 separate articles under one heading. Since all of the studies that these articles represent were presented at the same science conference, I chose … [Read more...]
Staying Hungrier (Intermittent fasting truths) by Jerry Brainum
Perhaps no one was born was a more apt surname than Linda Hazzard. Although Hazzard never attended medical school, she was nonetheless licensed to practice medicine in the state of Washington. She operated a sanitarium there in a town called Olalla, and she … [Read more...]