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I drop pounds but always end up back at my starting weight. Why?

October 26, 2015 By Dr. Mike Leave a Comment

The reason you keep rebounding is something called set-point weight: This is the weight that your hormones and metabolism try to maintain—typically plus or minus about 10 pounds—in order to regulate fat stores. Starvation or dieting, which often look the same to your body, conserves fat, says Mike Roussell, Ph.D., author of The Six Pillars […]

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Ask the Diet Doctor: Changing Your Diet with the Season

September 29, 2015 By Dr. Mike Leave a Comment

Q: Should I change my diet as the seasons change? A: Actually, yes. Your body undergoes changes as the seasons change. The differences of periods of light and darkness that occur have profound effects on our circadian rhythms. In fact, research shows that we have entire groups of genes that are impacted by circadian rhythms and […]

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Ask the Diet Doctor: Does the Food Combining Diet Work?

June 8, 2015 By Dr. Mike Leave a Comment

Q: I keep hearing about the “food combining diet.” Is it true that eating foods in certain orders or groups helps them be better digested? Will this also help with weight loss at all? A: The idea behind food combining diets is that different foods digest at different rates and require different digestive environments, thus […]

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Low carb or intermittent fasting. Which one is better for fat-loss and training?

April 24, 2015 By Dr. Mike 4 Comments

While the low-carb diets get shouted from the rooftops, intermittent fasting has been slowly gaining popularity. Find out how these two vanguard dietary schemes stack up!  Low-carb diets seem to be king of the hill at the moment, but I’ve been hearing a lot about intermittent fasting lately. Which is a better fat-loss diet? This […]

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8 Essential Weight-Loss Hormones

April 20, 2015 By Dr. Mike Leave a Comment

Optimize your body’s secret weight-loss weapons with these 8 essential hormones. 1. Leptin is a type of hormone called an adipokine that is released exclusively from fat cells. Leptin interacts with your brain to get your body to eat less and burn more calories. The more body fat you have, the more leptin your fat […]

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Zap Fat Fast—In 6 Easy Steps

February 26, 2015 By Dr. Mike Leave a Comment

Learn to look past calorie-counting and unleash the full fat-burning potential of your metabolism. When most obesity researchers look at a plate of food, they see macronutrients—carbs, proteins, and fats. Not Randy Seeley, Ph.D., a professor of endocrinology at the University of Cincinnati and the director of the Cincinnati Diabetes and Obesity Center. Seeley sees something […]

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