In a previous post ( ), I mentioned that the idea of gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time seems impossible to…

This is an issue that often comes up in online health discussions, and was the topic of a conversation I had the other …

The figure below, from Brooks et al. (2005), shows a graph relating nitrogen balance and protein intake. A nitrogen bal…

Do overweight folks live longer? It is not uncommon to see graphs like the one below, from the Med Journal Watch blog (…

I wrote most of this post a while ago, and then forgot about it. The recent blogosphere storm of comments regarding co…

In the two last posts I discussed the idea of gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time ( ) ( ). This post outline…

Many people struggle to lose body fat, and never quite make it to their optimal. Fewer people manage to do so successfu…