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Submitted by boytaichi on Sat, 2008-05-10 18:51.

In my blog entry "Is Exercise for Burning Calories?", I talked about why it's not an efficient way of losing weight.  In this post, I'd like to talk about other myths of exercises.

 


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Submitted by boytaichi on Wed, 2008-04-09 08:28.

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Submitted by boytaichi on Wed, 2008-04-09 08:18.

There's a lot of expert advice on food you should eat, such as this article/book which advocates eating five types of foods every day, whole grains, dark green leafy vegetables, nuts, low fat yogurt or milk, tea.
Do we listen to the advice?

 


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Submitted by boytaichi on Thu, 2008-04-03 08:37.

In the article, "Daily caffeine 'protects brain'" by BBC, it's reported that caffeine has been linked to a lower risk of Alzheimer's Disease, and a study by a US team for the Journal of Neuroinflammation explained why. it is mainly due to coffee's blocking the damage cholesterol that inflict on the body, research suggests.


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Submitted by boytaichi on Wed, 2008-04-02 21:37.


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Submitted by boytaichi on Mon, 2008-03-24 10:43.
In YBM Exercise, the main purpose of exercises is not for burnng calories. It is for flexibility, heart and lung functions, and for resistance training.  Instead, if you want to lose weight, use YBM Diet and YBM Caloric Restriction protocols.
 

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Submitted by boytaichi on Thu, 2008-03-20 10:33.
I visited several "whole food" and "health food" markets. I also stopped by Natural Product Expo West, where thousands of "whole" and "health" food manufacturers exhibit. For completeness, I also took a look at the shelves in the stores of these big fitness centers.
 

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Submitted by boytaichi on Fri, 2008-03-14 14:23.
We often get confused about the hundreds of dietary supplement pills. It easily adds up to hundreds of pills a day. How many should we take each day, 10, 100, 1000 capsules?
 
Scientists and Researchers have been discovering nutrients which are having beneficial effects on aging and diseases, only later rediscovering the side effects.

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Submitted by boytaichi on Wed, 2008-03-12 17:00.

When I read news such as "Study: Shorter Men More Likely to Be Jealous", and "Being underweight may raise diabetes risk",  I cannot help thinking that these researchers seem to have no topics that could meaningfully contribute to the world. Instead they dream up with topics, spend the money, and use wrong statistical methods. It's like the blind men touching elephants, some say, it's like a large cylinder (for the leg), others say it's like a huge fan (for the ear)....  In sciences, very often, conclusions are drawn without understanding the circumstances. 


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Submitted by boytaichi on Sun, 2008-03-09 11:30.

There are frequently "scientific studies" demonstrating the benefit of alcohol for the heart.  The problem is that people try to make conclusions based on the effect of a single aspect of a food, without either considering the whole effects.  I'm sure you may put to test other blood warming c


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Submitted by boytaichi on Thu, 2008-03-06 18:38.
There are never ending new studies that confuse people about the pros and cons of hormone replacement therapy.
 
The problem is not if HRT is effective, but rather how it is done.
 
The truth is,
1. If your hormone balance (the ratios among critical hormones) is out compared with when you were healthy and young (18-22), you get diseases.
2. If your hormone level is dramatically down or up compared with when you were young and healthy (18-22), you get older.
3. Your optimal level and balance are the exact numbers when you were young and healthy (18-22).

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Submitted by boytaichi on Thu, 2008-03-06 18:25.
A new study shows happiness is genetic. Like anything else, scientists and the popular press try to blame on genes, obesity, cancer, depression, diabetes, heart diseases....
 
However, a crucial fact people forget is that genes need to be expressed to work. Not all the genes in our bodies are expressed. The expression of genes is almost entirely influenced by how we live, i.e., our life style!
 
You may carry unhealthy genes, by the way who don't have one or two? But don't blame on them. You can control your lifestyle so that the genes don't get expressed!
 
Therefore, no excuses!  Practise YBM Life!

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Submitted by boytaichi on Tue, 2008-03-04 03:20.

Many "experts" would give advice on eating healthy foods such as whole grains, vegetables, fruits, etc. They also single out special high nutrients foods such as oats.  

However, they often ignore to tell you that a really healthy food can be made really unhealthy!  The most common enemy is cooking.  High temporature breaks down complex carbohydrates into simple sugar (or starchy), and kills all food enzymes and many nutrients.  So you'd think oats, or beans, or sweet potatoes, or whole grains are good stuff.  But when you cook it into starchy form, it lost most of the value!  Similarly, raw vegetable is very nutritious.  But through cooking, it becomes starchy and loses a lot of nutrients, and all its enzymes.


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Submitted by boytaichi on Fri, 2008-02-15 12:34.
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* pharmaceutical grade
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Submitted by boytaichi on Tue, 2008-02-12 12:59.

It's known that estrogen dominance, or sex hormone imbalance, is one of the major biomarker of aging, as well as a root cause of breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men. It is further researched that just as the ratios between testosterone and DHT is critical in men, the ratio of 2-hydroxyestrone and 16-alpha-hydroxyestrone in both men and women is very important. 16's is much more potent than 2's. As we age, the ratio changes, causing degenerative diseases such as cancer. A good article to discuss about this is found here by New Spirit Naturals. There are saliva test to measure the ratio, and supplementation method to balance it.


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