In a world of misinformation, Fitness Pudding is here to separate fact from fallacy, and science from fiction.

Duct Tape for Wart Removal?

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Passing along this series from NutritionFacts.org. Duct Tape and Wart Removal Can You Really Remove Warts with Duct Tape? Which Type of Duct Tape Is Best for Wart Removal?
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10,000 Step Myth?

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Some say that the 10,000 step per day guideline is a myth, because it was built on bad science. But, as far as we know, it was built on no science — likely originating with a Japanese marketing slogan for a pedometer in the 1960s, literally translated as ’10,000 steps meter’. More slogan than science — at first. Following a cohort of over 2,000 free-living adults in Australia between 2000 and 2005, researchers discovered that increasing...
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Radiofrequency for Fat Loss?

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Claims are made that radiofrequency, a form of high‐frequency electromagnetic energy, as from radios, cellphones and microwaves, can heat fat cells enough to activate lypolysis, or their breakdown into fatty acids and glycerol. If not consumed for energy, they will be converted back to storage or accumulate in the liver. Despite a recent research review that concluded there is “little evidence to prove [these] effects of [radiofrequency] on adipose tissue,” 1 the idea still persists that...
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The Grapefruit (Hollywood) Diet?

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Today, we are going to discuss the grapefruit diet, which is a rehash of the hollywood diet from the 1930s. So, I have brought along my own little starlight to help determine if claim is fact or fiction. The claim is that if you eat the grapefruit diet, then you will lose weight. There are three proposed mechanisms. 1. Meal-Replacement The original diet was something like half a grapefruit, a boiled egg and melba toast, as...
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Banana Coffee?

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I posted an ad from the early 1900s, for 'Banan-Nutro', a coffee made from bananas. I wanted to experience what they experienced back then, so we made it. Note: At 2:49, baked potato = baked 'sweet' potato
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Chewing Gum to Walk Faster and Burn More Calories?

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After bursting bubbles that chewing gum is not our next great weight loss answer , I was sent internet articles, such as these. This one even claims that walking and chewing gum, a feat in and of itself, could help men lose weight, apparently just before the next hurricane. They all refer back to this recent research study where 46 adults completed two walking tasks. 1 In the ‘experimental’ task, they walked at a natural pace...
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Chewing Gum for Weight Loss?

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This ad from the 1960s for Vel-X gum, makes some pretty strong claims, regarding chewing gum and fat or weight loss. Fast forward to 2018 we also see some claims regarding gum improving weight loss. Could there be any truth to these claims? Let’s think about how this would even work, assuming regular gum with no additives or stimulants, such as caffeine or nicotine. One possibility is by increasing energy expenditure. In other words, could chewing gum...
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Appetite Suppressant Lollipops?

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Do appetite suppressant lollipops work? As we will see, probably not. However, they have received a recent boom of attention after an endorsement from Mrs. Kim Kardashian, alongside an earlier episode of the Doctor Oz show claiming saffron, the proposed active ingredient in the lollipops, as a “miracle appetite suppressant to kill your hunger.” I wished they had called me first, since the claims are not actually supported by the research. So, Kim, in the future,...
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Cockroach Milk: The Next Superfood?

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Could cockroach milk be our next superfood? More specifically, milk from Diplotera punctata or the Pacific Beetle Cockroach. Now, cockroaches do not have udders or nipples to milk each morning, so the study behind all the attention is referring to the milky substance that comes out of mother’s brood sac to feed her babies. In the egg, the babies get this nourishing milk that is rich in proteins called lipocalin-like milk proteins or Lili-Mip, which turn...
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Sweat Out Fat?

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We have already established that waist trainers, wraps, sauna suits, or hot pants do not help with fat loss. Yet, there is still a persisting idea that the more you sweat the more fat that seeps out of your sweat glands. We do have some 2 to 4 million of these so-called eccrine glands, so that could be a lot of fat lost. But, back when Tone Loc was rocking Funky Cold Medina, some researchers were...
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