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The Cause of Fat Burning

28 June, 2010 (08:33) | Health and Fitness | By: Aaron

Fat burning in the human body is a very delicate process. There are many different things that can affect how the body burns and stores fat. Your hormones play a large role, as do various vitamins and minerals used by the body. If each of these factors are manipulated properly, the body will burn fat. [...]

My Modified Sugar Detox Plan

31 May, 2010 (08:36) | Health and Fitness | By: Aaron

I made a decision that if my weight got too low that I would call my no-carb diet for a day or two.  The reason being that I am not trying to lose weight, but just break myself of a couple food addictions.  Saturday I decided that I’d lost too much weight, and called it [...]

Day 5 without Carbs

28 May, 2010 (14:35) | Health and Fitness | By: Aaron

I started a 3 week sugar and caffeine detox on Monday and am now on day 5.  The rules are basically no bread, sugar, pasta or potatoes.  Meat, dairy, eggs, nuts and veggies are unlimited.  My purpose is to try and detox from sugars, and get off the sweets and caffeine that I’ve found myself [...]

Why You Shouldn’t Drink Your Calories

25 May, 2010 (09:00) | Health and Fitness | By: Aaron

Ran across this article on the Men’s Health website today. It’s titled “20 Worst Drinks in America 2010” and shows they’re equivalent in some other sweet/junk food. What you’ll notice is that for many of these you’d have to eat a substantial amount of food to equal the amount of sugar in these drinks. You [...]

Eliminate Stress with GTD

12 May, 2010 (10:08) | Health and Fitness, Productivity | By: Aaron

Today’s topic is on Stress Reduction with the Getting Things Done (GTD) system. If you would like more information about GTD then I would highly recommend reading the book.  You can get it here. For more tools that work with the GTD system be sure to check out the Productivity category and for more tips [...]