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A Warm Heart

by Fred Hahn on May 19, 2013

After reading the following email, my heart couldn’t have been warmer:
Hi Frederick,
I contacted you awhile back in regards to my father having lower back problems to the point where the lower part of his spine has shifted over and he could barely walk. This discomfort happened suddenly when he was around 78. I [...]

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Do Calories Count – Simplified.

by Fred Hahn on May 3, 2013

If…you are eating crap and getting fatter and you start eating more crap, you’ll get even fatter.
Probably.
If…you are eating really well and becoming leaner and you start eating more (of all the right stuff), you’ll stop getting leaner and get fatter.
Probably.
This is how calories count.
But…
Eating more or less calories is not the mechanism by which we [...]

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What If Meat Was Good For You?

April 13, 2013

Wouldn’t that be nice? Imagine steak being proclaimed as a health food…as it once was. Sigh. Will those days ever return? Not if certain researchers have anything to say about it!
I’m sure that many of you saw the recent article in the NY Times about a study that showed the bacteria in our guts converts [...]

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You’re Seven Feet Tall Because You Eat Too Much

March 7, 2013

Or, do you just eat a lot when you’re seven feet tall? Think this is a dumb point to make?
When this young man walks into a room, does anyone think “Wow – that is one tall kid! He must be eating too much!”
No. Of course not. We know that he has a hormonal disorder. And [...]

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How Often Should We Lift Weights?

March 6, 2013

As many of you already know, strength training produces many positive health benefits including but not limited to increased strength, endurance, muscle and bone mass, decreased blood pressure, body fat, risk of injury and falls. Recently, research has revealed that strength training improves cognitive function and reverses certain genetic markers of aging. No longer is [...]

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Nutrition Science or Science Fiction?

February 21, 2013

Here we go again. Yet another nutritional “scientist” claiming that carbohydrates are the main source of fuel for the body and a required macronutrient. Sigh.
In this incredibly frustrating and full-of-baloney video, we hear scientist Bridget Benelam say, right from the get go:
I’m going to talk about carbohydrate and why it is an important nutrient for our [...]

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My Post Workout Strength Potion

February 14, 2013

There is some pretty convincing evidence that post workout protein intake improves muscle recovery and growth. This is just one of many research studies that support the notion of taking in a good protein potion before and after your workouts.
I’ve certainly seen and felt a difference in my body doing so.
Over the years I and [...]

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Protein – How Much You Need and Why

February 6, 2013

Protein is the major structural component of every cell in the human body. The word “protein” is thought to come from the Greek word proteios which means “the first quality.” Protein is a very important dietary nutrient and many people do not eat adequate amounts of it or the most nutritious forms of it on a [...]

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Hank Greenberg and I on Bloomberg’s The Hays Advantage

January 22, 2013

I’m thrilled and honored to announce that my client (and friend) former CEO of AIG and CEO of Starr International Maurice “Hank” Greenberg and I will be appearing on Bloomberg Radio’s show The Hays Advantage hosted by one of top-rated financial journalists and broadcasters in the nationKathleen Hays on February 12th at 2 PM. [...]

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Dr. McDougall a.k.a Dr. Potato Head

December 10, 2012

The purveyor of the potato/starch diet, John McDougall M.D., strikes again with more starchy gobbledy-gook nonsense about low carb/paleo diets.
There is so much to dissect and render inert in his article that it may take me three parts to accomplish the task. Perhaps I can lick it in two. But whether it takes two [...]

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