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Metabolism Myths | Expert Series Podcast


I was honored to connect with my friend Dr. Bill Campbell, an expert on metabolism myths, as a part of the new, FitnessPudding.com Expert Series Podcast.  View on Youtube Follow Dr. Campbell on Instagram: @billcampbellphd If you enjoy, please like, subscribe and consider donating to help deliver more myth-busting content, faster.  
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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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Is Lack of Time Really a Barrier to Physical Activity?

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Easily, the leading barrier to physical activity I have heard over my career is ‘lack of time’. But, is time really a barrier to physical activity? In one of my favorite studies on his issue, 24-hour activity diaries found adult women spent 28 hours per week in sedentary leisure-time activity. 1 In other words, their reports that lack of time is a barrier do not reflect actual time available for physical activity, and might not be...
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Exercise or Diet for Belly Fat?

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There are two types of ‘belly fat’. The type under our skin (subcutaneous), although maligned, likely holds little to no disease risk. The other type (visceral) hidden deep inside the belly holds high disease risk. It creeps into and around our organs, including our heart. Yikes. Studies have found that both exercise and dieting (typically restricting calories by 500 per day) help decrease both types of belly fat to about the same degree in adults classified...
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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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Does Cycling Improve Sexual Functioning?

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Headlines tease an exercise can improve sexual functioning, because this study survey found that high-intensity cyclists who cycle an average of 25 miles, more than 3 times per week, had a slightly higher mean on each of these sexual function domains than non-cyclists (swimmers and runners).  Before you run out to buy a bike and tights – being a one time survey, we cannot conclude that cycling will improve sexual functioning. Perhaps women with higher sexual...
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Exercise for Your Face?

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Can facial exercise or yoga reduce the appearance of aging? There is thought that exercising the muscles of the face can increase their size, thus reducing the appearance of aging. Claims can be fairly dramatic. But, here’s the study 1 behind recent media attention, looking at the effect of 32 different facial exercises, 30-minutes per day, 3-4 times per week, for 20 weeks. The main outcome was the appearance of aging, as rated by two physicians...
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Weight Regain After 'The Biggest Loser'?

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Ping Pong for Weight Loss?

Ping Pong for Weight Loss?

I went back and forth on whether or not to cover this one, but it kept bouncing back up.  In short, ping pong (or table tennis) is being promoted as a weight loss tactic. What We Already Know The Compendium of Physical Activities has table tennis listed as a 4.0 MET activity. "MET" stands for the metabolic equivalent of a task, and represents the amount of energy required for a particular test. 1 MET is the...
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Can Our Bones Be Fat?

Can Our Bones Be Fat?

Bone Fat? Spot losing fat has been busted, but recommendations still persist that we can beat everything from belly fat to back fat with exercise. Now, we can possibly beat bone fat with exercise? Wait, our bones can be fat? We have already seen that our tongues can be fat, so maybe bone fat is a possibility. At first glance, it might appear that too much bone fat is related to the “big bone” myth, but...
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