I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I have become generally desensitized to “breakthroughs” in weight loss methods. One possibility that seems to consistently manifest itself amongst the other noise has been the research on brown fat (brown adipose tissue, or BAT). It has been enough to make me pay [...]
Archive for April 17th, 2009
-
Don’t Let Weight Limit Your Health Goals
Written by Slim | Date: 4:00 am | Permalink | Category: Diet BlogToday’s guest blogger is Josh Graston, a fitness enthusiast and triathlete from Sioux Falls, SD who remains active in a variety of sports while striving toward his goal weight.
More than 70% of Americans report that they are active in trying to lose weight. When most people think of losing weight, they lean primarily toward nutrition. [...] -
There has been a lot of confusion about BMI over the years. BMI stands for Body Mass Index and is a statistical measure of the weight of a person scaled according to their height. Body Mass Index is calculated by dividing your weight in kilograms by the square of your height in meters.
Example for a 132 pound, 5′4″ [...]